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WHOLISTIC, CULTURALLY-BASED CURRICULUM MATERIALS
The Great Wolf And Little Mouse Sister Video
ISBN 1-896905-35-8
(2 part video 25 minutes)This award-winning semi-animated video depicts Phillip and Martha, a brother and sister who go for a walk in the woods with their grandfather. As they walk, their grandfather teaches them valuable lessons about life by drawing their attention to different aspects of the natural world around them. After they arrive at the home of another elder, they hear the traditional native story, "The Great Wolf and Little Mouse Sister." Beautifully and sensitively presented, this two-part video has been carefully prepared to teach positive, life-enhancing values to children and adults.
$19.99 CAD
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The Great Wolf And Little Mouse Sister
ISBN 1-896905-13-7
This 43-page guide utilizes 24 exercises designed to promote speaking and writing fluency and to develop listening and writing skills for upper elementary students of all cultural backgrounds. Designed to accompany the "Great Wolf and Little Mouse Sister" video, the exercises are divided into pre-viewing activities, a viewing focus, immediate follow-up activities, and additional follow-up activities. Teaching strategies include guided discussion, sharing circles, guided imagery, creative writing, and art projects. Also included are exercises in word-webbing, spelling, capitalization and word classification.
$9.99 CAD
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Walking With Grandfather Six Part DVD
ISBN 1-896905-02-2
(87 minutes) In the introductory live action segment, five children visit their grandfather at his wilderness camp and learn more about Native North Americans: their traditional dwellings, their contributions to North American society and basic values and beliefs shared by indigenous people across North America. The remaining five semi-animated stories, each with a live action beginning and end, teach the children how to get along with each other and the world around them. Each story comes from a different tribal society, providing a beautiful example of the rich storytelling heritage of each tribal context.
$40.00 CAD
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Walking With Grandather Curriculum Guide
ISBN 1-896905-02-1
The curriculum guide which accompanies this series of stories demonstrates how the stories can be used in a student-centered language arts program to reinforce curriculum objectives such as identifying characteristics of a myth, understanding and using symbols, understanding causal relationships, and mastering figurative language. Teaching strategies include creative writing, discussion, art projects, mime and role play. The Walking With Grandfather curriculum package is suitable for upper elementary students from any cultural background.
$12.00 CAD
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Walking With Grandather Curriculum Package
ISBN 1-896905-04-08
Includes 6 part DVD video and curriculum guide.
$54.95 CAD
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The Sacred Tree Curriculum Package
ISBN 1-896905-30-7
The Sacred Tree Curriculum Package is designed to assist educators to lead a group of learners through a journey of self-exploration and personal development. The goal of the journey is to assist teachers and learners to discover their potentialities as human beings and to become motivated to dedicate their energies to the positive development of themselves and their fellow human beings. The journey begins with a social research project focusing on the consequences of alcohol and drug abuse in the learner’s home community. It then goes on to demonstrate how the medicine wheel can be used as a symbol to learn about personal growth and interpersonal communication. A central resource for the Sacred Tree Curriculum Package is TheSacred Tree student text.. The book is designed as a text for junior and senior high school students and adults, but many will find it a useful and enjoyable addition to their general library. The Sacred Tree Curriculum Package consists of a curriculum guide, a class set of student texts (25 copies), four videos, seven resource books, posters and other visual aids.
The Sacred Tree Book- English Edition ISBN 1-896905-00-5, $12.00
- German Edition ISBN 3-530-33833-8, $12.00
- Spanish Edition ISBN 956-7509-01-8, $12.00
This beautifully illustrated book presents many of the universal concepts and teachings handed down through the ages in Native societies throughout North America concerning the nature, purpose and possibilities of human existence. The book uses the ancient symbol of the medicine wheel as a mirror which reflects not only what a person is, but also what they might become through the development of their potentialities.
The Sacred Tree Curriculum Guide ISBN 1-896905-32-3, $48.00
The Sacred Tree Active Journey Workshop ISBN 1-896905-32-3, $48.00
In-service Handbook for the Sacred Tree Curriculum Package
This two-day workshop is designed to familiarize teachers with the learning strategies used in The Sacred Tree Curriculum Package and to give them the opportunity to directly experience the benefits of these exercises. The handbook is self-explanatory and can be used by a consultant or staff member to guide colleagues through activities like talking circles, laughter and play, games, guided visualization and journal writing. At the end of the session, teachers should feel comfortable enough with "The Sacred Tree Curriculum Package" to begin using it effectively with their students.
$550.00 CAD
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Call 1-866-505-1455 To OrderUnity In Diversity - Promoting An Understanding And Appreciation Of The Human Family
(Junior And Senior High Level) ISBN 1-896905-34-X
A comprehensive multicultural education program including an extensive curriculum guide; a student text; masters for student worksheets; five videos, books, games, puzzles, posters and a map. The curriculum is divided into four units: 1. Human Problems Need Human Solutions; 2. The Roots and Dynamics of Prejudice; 3. Images of Indians; and 4. Strategies for Change. Seventeen teaching/learning strategies have been used to develop tolerance and to eliminate prejudice and discrimination. These include guided discussions, role plays, cooperative learning, audio-visual materials, taking action, creative writing, the arts, research projects, collaborative problem solving, and case studies. Case studies highlight issues concerning to many North American minority groups including Hutterites, Japanese, Ukrainian, the disabled, Mennonites, women, East Indian and Native North Americans. This program is suitable for students of all cultural backgrounds.
Unity in Diversity Student Reading Book ISBN 1-896905-38-2, $25.00 (See above for content description)
Unity in Diversity Curriculum Guide ISBN 1-896905-36-6, $ 65.00 (See above for content description)
$$795.00 CAD
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Images Of Indians Curriculum Package
ISBN 1-896905-05-06
(Curriculum guide, student resource pages, Images of Indians video (160 minutes), map, books, videos, posters). Unit 3 of the Unity in Diversity package is offered separately for schools wanting only the in-depth case studies of Native issues. This program examines how stereotypes and Hollywood’s depiction of Native North Americans perpetuate prejudice; how the movie industry’s misrepresentation of Native history, customs and language affects everybody; contemporary Native issues; how Native tribes have contributed to North American Life; and the effect of government policies on "the Indian problem" during settlement times.
Images of Indians Curriculum Guide ISBN 1-896905-29-3, $52.00 (See above for content description)
Images of Indians DVD 160 minutes ISBN 1-896905-33-2, $40.00 (See above for content description)
$145.00 CAD
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SPECIAL FEATURE
All My Relations
Traditional Indian Code of Ethics ISBN 0-9680464-0-1
This booklet is based on The Sacred Tree and was produced and illustrated by the students of Pleasant Hill Community School in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
$5.00 CAD
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Waterlily
227 pages ISBN 0-8032-6579-4
Waterlily is a novel of Indian Life - of the Dakotas. But apart from dealing with an actual people at a more-or-less-identifiable time and place, it has little in common with the conventional historical fiction centered on famous people and major events. This outstanding book was written by Ella Deloria, herself a Dakota and an accomplished ethnologist, who sought to record and preserve traditional Dakota ways through this imaginative recreation of life in the camp circle. It is of special value because it is told from a woman’s perspective – one that is much less well known than the warrior’s or the holy man’s. More fully and compellingly than any ethnological report, and with equal authority, it reveals the intricate system of relatedness, obligation, and respect that governed the world of all Dakotas as it takes the protagonist, Waterlilly, through the everyday and the extraordinary nary events of a Dakota woman’s experience.
$18.00 CAD
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PROGRAMS AND SUPPORT MATERIAL FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION
Effective School Based Prevention Programs: A Handbook
ISBN 1-896905-01-3
Designed to support Native alcohol and drug abuse prevention curricula for schools or community programs, this handbook describes 10 components of an effective prevention curriculum including decision-making, self-esteem, coping, volition, cultural values, positive role models and training for school staff. A detailed list of resources has been presented specifically for their appropriateness for Native students.
$10.00 CAD
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Moving Towards Wholeness: A Substance Abuse Prevention Training Manual for Educators Working With Native Students
ISBN 1-896905-40-4
Substance abuse cannot be surgically removed from an individual or community. Prevention education must have a wholistic approach. The training session outlined in this manual provides educators with a basic model for a school-based prevention program involving parents, the community, resource people and teachers. More suggestions for getting started are outlined in the Handbook for Effective School-Based Prevention Programs.
$54.00 CAD
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Learning For Life: A Social Skills Training Program For Young Adolescents
ISBN 1-896905-42-0
This 100-page manual draws on three prevention strategies: influencing normative values; teaching skills that help youth counter social pressures, and teaching general personal and social skills such as problem solving, decision making, effective interpersonal communication, assertiveness, and coping with stress. Ideas are presented to help schools cooperate with other community agencies in addressing broad-based societal concerns.
$16.00 CAD
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SUPPORT MATERIALS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF WHOLISTIC, CULTURALLY-BASED COMMUNITY CONTROLLED EDUCATION
Wholistic Educational Evaluation
ISBN 1-896905-27-7
This sixty-page booklet reviews the field of educational evaluation as it relates to Native communities. The paper suggests that many of the current evaluation methods and instruments do not measure what they purport to measure when applied in Native communities. Further, it outlines an approach to evaluating educational programs that puts the control of the process of evaluation in the hands of the community, and that insures that many of the dimensions which are excluded from traditional evaluation approaches are considered.
$9.95 CAD
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Recreating Native Education:
A Case Study in Program Evaluation and Design
ISBN 1-896905-03-X
Useful to school staff, administrators, boards and community members, this two-part document reviews a typical curriculum used in a rural Native school and outlines a proposal for making changes to create more effective, dynamic and culturally appropriate education programs.
$10.00 CAD
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Youth & Adult: The Shared Journey Towards Wholeness
AT-300-1
"It is mutuality and commonness that bridges our gaps of age and role, young and old . .." Drawing on the ideas of many related philosophic foundations, Youth and Adult deals with the special struggles and joys of life as a young adult. It is designed to aid young people and those adults who live and work with them to become co-participants and co-creators of learning and growth. It contains strategies, activities, and exercises which have proven effective and beneficial in many different settings.
$15.00 CAD
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Culture: The Ultimate Curriculum
ISBN 1-896905-11-0
In order for educators outside a culture to promote human development and learning, they must build on the "organic curriculum" of the people with whom they work. This paper discusses the concept of organic curriculum - the process by which people learn to live in relationship to the universe - as well as the implications of this idea for education and educators struggling to work in this new way.
$10.00 CAD
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Healing is possible:
A Joint Statement on Healing Sexual Abuse in Indigenous Communities
ISBN 1-896905-25-0
This statement is a call for unity of vision, commitment and action on the issue of sexual abuse in Indigenous communities, as well as a plea for adopting humane and truly indigenous approaches to the problem.
$5.00 CAD
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Issues in education:
Three discussion papers relevant to education in Indigenous communities
ISBN 1-896905-17-X
Three discussion papers relevant to education in Indigenous communities
$10.00 CAD
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"The Beaver People:
A Case Study in Traditional Northern Indigenous Teaching and Learning Practices"
ISBN 1-896905-19-6
A study of Hugh Brody’s book about Beaver Indians in northeast British Columbia, Canada, uncovers some principles guiding traditional education which can be adapted in today’s schools.
$5.00 CAD
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"The Pulse of Culture:
Some Implications of Contemporary Anthropological Research for the Classroom."
ISBN 1-896905-21-8
Contemporary research about cultural differences, neonatal bonding and language learning provides insights for educators striving to implement more culturally appropriate and effective teaching practices.
$5.00 CAD
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"The Anisa Model of Education."
ISBN 1-896905-23-4
Includes a case study of a contemporary education model with a wholistic and integrated approach to education in an Indigenous setting.
$5.00 CAD
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COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT MATERIALS
Taking time to listen:
Using Community Based Research to Build Programs
ISBN 1-896905-15-3
Because much of culture and history is "hidden" in language, tradition and the way things are done, it is often difficult for community level people to recognize for themselves or interpret for others the value of this "invisible knowledge" for healing, education and development efforts. This booklet describes a research process to assist community members in using this knowledge to develop community programs appropriate in their communities.
$16.00 CAD
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Developing Healthy Communities:
Fundamental Strategies for Health Promotion
ISBN 1-896905-44-7
This basic text emerges from the struggle for healing and self-development among indigenous peoples and the need for community development to be part of a wholistic, culturally based health promotion process. A wholistic framework is presented for development thinking, followed by down-to-earth strategies for community-level workers and outside agencies implementing community development programs and a wide variety of related case studies from around the world.
$10.00 CAD
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Where do we go from here:
First Steps in Social Planning for Pelly
ISBN 1-896905-09-9
Utilizing the medicine wheel, this document outlines a framework for wholistic community planning and development and the practical steps needed to generate and empower community-based participation in every stage of the planning and development process. It can be utilized as a wholistic model for community planning and development in communities everywhere.
$9.00 CAD
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Elder Health Manual
ISBN 0-919555-96-9
This practical resource manual for promoting the health of Aboriginal Elders, is designed to assist community health workers, mental health staff, home care nurses and workers, social workers, substance abuse counselors, community volunteers and family care-givers in developing effective community-based strategies and programs for improving the health and well-being of elders.
$16.00 CAD
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The Four Worlds Community Education Series
9 Booklets ISBN 1-896905-25-2
Human and community development is explored by first examining the context in which alcohol and drug abuse has arisen in indigenous communities and then be introducing a series of topics needed for understanding and transforming individuals and their societies. Each booklet presents a topic, related questions and activities and a supplementary resource list. This series is an excellent training and community development resource for adult upgrading, community colleges and related community agencies such as substance abuse centres.
- Understanding & Preventing Problems of Alcohol & Drug Abuse ISBN 1-896905-06-4
- How History Has Effected Native Life Today ISBN 1-896905-08-0
- The Vicious Cycle of Prejudice ISBN 1-896905-10-2
- The Transforming Power of a New Vision ISBN 1-896905-12-9
- The Connection Between Health and Education ISBN 1-896905-14-5
- Toward A Vision of Human Possibility ISBN 1-896905-16-1
- A Wholistic Curriculum Can Contribute to Health ISBN 1-896905-18-8
- Community Development ISBN 1-896905-20-X
- Helping Your Community ISBN 1-896905-22-6
(Booklets available individually at $7.00 per booklet)
$60.00 CAD (All 9 booklets)
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The Four Worlds Exchange
A series of publications that have been produced as a forum for the sharing of ideas, innovations, information, resources and technical information on the following topics.
- Youth and Development (AT-400-1)
- Beyond Alcohol: Native Communities in Recovery (AT-400-2)
- Economic Development and Health (AT-400-3)
- Surviving the Front Lines (AT-400-4)
- Taking Responsibility for Health (AT-400-5)
- Aids Prevention (AT-400-6)
- Spirituality and Development (AT-400-7)
(Publications available individually at $5.00 each)
$35.00 CAD (All publications)
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Overview Of The Four Worlds Development Project
ISBN 1-896905-28-5
This booklet describes the wholistic models at the foundation of Four Worlds’ approach to transforming the context that has given rise to alcohol and drug abuse. It describes Four World’s early vision and development strategy, deeply rooted in the guidance of Indigenous elders and culture, and articulates a set of first principles upon which any wholistic approach to human and community development may be based.
$5.00 CAD
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Toward The Year 2000
ISBN 0-919555-58-6
A succinct summary of the history, philosophy and accumulated practical experience of the Four Worlds guiding principles during its first four years of development. Seven case studies are described to illustrate the implementation of these ideas and concepts. A strategy is outlined for future direction, possibilities, and project plans. This booklet celebrates the guidance, wisdom and overwhelming support given at a historic seven-day gathering of 100 indigenous elders and cultural leaders from tribes across North America on Four Worlds fourth anniversary.
$5.00 CAD
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