Canada's History : 10 Books to Teach Aboriginal History

Inspired by Dr. Timothy Winegard's presentation about teaching Aboriginal history at the University of Winnipeg’s Summer Teaching Institute in July 2014.

Grade school: 

• Lydia’s Dabcovich’s The Polar Bear Son: An Inuit Tale, 
• Forrest Carter’s The Education of Little Tree, 

High school: 

• Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road, 
• Guy St. Denis’ Tecumseh’s Bones, 
• J.R Miller’s Skyscrapers Hide the Heavens: A History of Indian-White Relations in Canada, 4th edition,
• Waiser and Stonechild’s Loyal Till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion, 
• Timothy C. Winegard’s For King and Kanata: Canadian Indians and the First World War,
• Charles C. Mann’s 1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus and 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created, 
• Thomas King’s The inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America. 

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