Aboriginal Language and Culture Resources

Blackfoot Language and Culture 10-20-30 Program of Studies, 1993 
Blackfoot Language and Culture 10-20-30 serves as a means to fulfill the expressed needs of the Blackfoot people, as well as promoting intercultural communication. This program of studies includes the rationale, philosophy, and general and specific learner expectations.

Blackfoot Language and Culture Twelve-year Program, Kindergarten to Grade 12, 2010  
This program of studies identifies the required and elective expectations for Blackfoot Language and Culture learning in Alberta for Kindergarten to Grade 12. The document also provides the rationale, philosophy, and linguistic and cultural outcomes for this program.

Blackfoot 7: Teacher's Guide, September 2003
Blackfoot 7 is an exciting resource for junior high school students that includes language/cultural themes in an attractive package for use by teachers and students in the classroom. It includes a variety of language/teaching strategies through time-tested activities with linguistic and communicative themes. The student and teacher guide is full of activities that support language teaching with culturally appropriate themes.

Blackfoot 7: Student Book, September 2003
Blackfoot 7 is an exciting resource for junior high school students that includes language/cultural themes in an attractive package for use by teachers and students in the classroom. It includes a variety of language/teaching strategies through time-tested activities with linguistic and communicative themes. The student and teacher guide is full of activities that support language teaching with culturally appropriate themes.

Blackfoot Grade 8: Student Book, November 2002
This resource, developed in cooperation with the Kainaiwa Board of Education, supports language learning of Blackfoot at the junior high school level in a deep cultural way, balanced by a knowledge of grammar. It has many ideas in the teacher's guide for communicative learning that will be easy for teachers to follow. Its themes are the basic attitudes and concepts that are passed on from the Blackfoot Elders and the basic language that supports that.

Blackfoot Grade 9: Student Book, 2001
Blackfoot Grade 9 is an exciting resource for junior high school students that includes language and cultural themes in an attractive package for use by students and teachers. It includes a variety of language teaching strategies through proven activities to support communication; i.e., language teaching and learning. A student book full of activities supports language teaching as the culturally appropriate themes provided.

Blackfoot Grade 9: Flashcards, 2001
Blackfoot Grade 9 is an exciting resource for junior high school students that includes language/cultural themes in an attractive package for use by teachers and students in the classroom. It includes a variety of language/teaching strategies through time-tested activities with linguistic and communicative themes. The student and teacher guide is full of activities that support language teaching with culturally appropriate themes.

Blackfoot Language and Culture Program: A Selective Bibliography of Supplementary Learning Resources, 1991
This document contains a list of approved supplementary resources for use by teachers of the Blackfoot Language and Culture program.

Blackfoot 10: Niitsi'powahsini: Student Book, 1996
Blackfoot Language and Culture 10-20-30 is designed with techniques and materials aimed to make teaching and learning Blackfoot easier than it was in the past--when there were no materials for teacher or student use. The historical and cultural content in the program of studies is distributed in themes throughout the units. The units in each level are very comprehensive--designed to be taught in approximately 15 or 16 lessons per unit.

Blackfoot for Beginners: Workbook 1 of 3, 1993
Blackfoot for Beginners consists of three workbooks that are designed to help the learner develop vocabulary and to begin simple sentence structure, while incorporating some traditional themes. A teacher's guide at the end of each workbook provides suggestions for interesting exercises to help the learner learn the concepts and practise what has been learned.

Blackfoot 7: Flashcards, 2003
Blackfoot 7 is an exciting resource for junior high school students that includes language/cultural themes in an attractive package for use by teachers and students in the classroom. It includes a variety of language/teaching strategies through time-tested activities with linguistic and communicative themes. The student and teacher guide is full of activities that support language teaching with culturally appropriate themes.

Siksika (Blackfoot) Language Series Kit: Level 3, 1993
The general goals of the series are to acquire basic communication skills in Siksika; to enhance student personal development, to develop a positive attitude toward learning Siksika; and to provide a medium for preserving Siksika knowledge and perspectives.