Lesson 21 — Activity 3: Assignment
Completion requirements
In this assignment, you will choose a First Nations person and complete a short biography.
Selected books with information about famous Aboriginal people:
When you have chosen the person you are interested in, do some research and prepare the biography. Include the following information:
You may use a computer or paper to complete this assignment.
1. You can type your work directly into the assignment box on the next page by clicking the "add submission" button under the orange box at the bottom of this page.
2. If you typed your work in a separate Word document, save your document, and either send it to your teacher as an e-mail attachment or print it off and hand it in to your teacher so it can be marked.
3. You can also choose to complete a hand-written assignment on a piece of paper. If so, please hand in your assignment to your teacher so it can be marked.
See the Marking Guide below to see how your teacher will grade this assignment.
In this assignment, you will choose a First Nations person and complete a short biography.
You may choose one of the people on the lesson page or you may wish to look at other resources
to choose a person.
- Susan Aglukark is a singer and motivational speaker. Dallas Arcand is the 2007 World Champion Hoop Dancer as well as a hip-hop artist.
- Dallas Arcand is the 2007 World Champion Hoop Dancer as well as a hip-hop artist.
- Adam Beach is an actor who has appeared in movies such as Windtalkers and Flags of Our Fathers as well as on the television show Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
- Joseph Boyden is an author of novels and short stories.
- Joseph Bruchac is an author of many books about First Nations people.
- Douglas Cardinal is an architect famous for many designs including the Museum of Civilization in Ottawa and the Grande Prairie Regional College in northern Alberta.
- Dan George was a chief, author, poet, and actor.
- Tom Jackson appeared on the TV show North of 60 and is well known for his Huron Carol Christmas Concerts to raise money for food banks.
- Pauline Johnson was a poet, writer, and performer.
- Thomas King is the author of the novels Medicine River and The Inconvenient Indian among others.
- Norval Morrisseau (whose painting you saw in L21 — A1 ) was an Anishinaabe artist known as the "Picasso of the North."
- Jane Ash Poitras is an Alberta-born painter and printmaker.
- Carey Price plays goal in the NHL for the Montreal Canadiens.
- Louis Riel was the founding father of Manitoba and a leader to the Métis people. Riel sought to preserve the rights and culture of the Métis people.
- Buffy Sainte-Marie is a singer-songwriter, musician, visual artist, educator and social activist.
- Sheldon Souray played hockey in the NHL for the Edmonton Oilers and the Anaheim Ducks.
- Ralph Steinhauer was the first First Nations Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta.
- Jordin Tootoo plays in the NHL for the New Jersey Devils.
- Shane Yellowbird is a country music singer.
Selected books with information about famous Aboriginal people:
- Bruchac, Joseph. Boy Called Slow: The True Story of Sitting Bull. 1994. Being named Slow and growing up in the shadow of a great warrior hardly dwarfed the prospects of this hero — he grew up to be Sitting Bull.
- Bruchac, Joseph. Crazy Horse's Vision. 2000. This is a fictionalized biography about the childhood and coming of age of the noted Lakota Sioux leader and warrior Crazy Horse.
- Cardinal, Will. First Nations Hockey Players. 2009. Provides stories of Canadian First Nations hockey players.
- Cardinal, Will. Tom Longboat: Running Against the Wind: A First Nations Canadian Conquers the World’s Marathons. 2009.
- Erdrich, Lise. Sacagawea. 2003. A biography of the Shoshone girl Sacagawea from age 11 when she was kidnapped by the Hitdatsa to the end of her journey with the explorers Lewis and Clark.
- Florence, Melanie. Jordin Tootoo: The highs and lows in the journey of the first Inuit to play in the NHL. 2010.
- Kalman, Bobbie. Famous Native North Americans. 2003.
- Loyie, Larry. As Long as the Rivers Flow: A Last Summer Before Residential School. 2002. A short novel in picture book style about Larry, who at 10 was living with his family near Slave Lake in Alberta when he learned that
he must go away to school.
- Loyie, Larry.Goodbye Buffalo Bay. Includes anecdotes about Larry’s life at residential school, his life after he leaves the school, and a history of residential schools in Canada. Follows As Long as the Rivers Flow.
- Loyie, Larry.When the Spirits Dance. 2006.
- Rivera, Raquel. Arctic Adventures: Tales from the Lives of Inuit Artists. 2007. Stories from the lives of four Inuit artists.
- Schilling, Vincent. Great Musicians from our First Nations. 2010. Includes information on Shane Yellowbird.
- Schilling, Vincent. Men of Courage from our First Nations. 2008. In this book are stories of men who have advanced education, science, politics, law enforcement, and culture.
Web Sites:
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Online Reference Centre, from Alberta Education: http://www.learnalberta.ca/onlinereferencecentre.aspx.
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Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org.
When you have chosen the person you are interested in, do some research and prepare the biography. Include the following information:
- Where was this person born? In what year?
- Where did this person grow up?
- What did this person do for a living?
- Why is this person famous? What did/does this person do to become famous?
- How has this person made an impact on others' lives?
Think about what images you could include. You may present your biography in a PowerPoint presentation, poster, collage, or other appropriate format.
Remember to include a bibliography!
You may use a computer or paper to complete this assignment.
When you are done, review for spelling
and proper punctuation.
Please do one of the following:
1. You can type your work directly into the assignment box on the next page by clicking the "add submission" button under the orange box at the bottom of this page.2. If you typed your work in a separate Word document, save your document, and either send it to your teacher as an e-mail attachment or print it off and hand it in to your teacher so it can be marked.
3. You can also choose to complete a hand-written assignment on a piece of paper. If so, please hand in your assignment to your teacher so it can be marked.
See the Marking Guide below to see how your teacher will grade this assignment.