Reconciliaction. The finale of B.C. First peoples with PLP.

This project was about the journey of the Haida People in Reclaiming their land and ownership of their waters. We did a lot of reading for this project. Some of the reading included: The Golden spruce, Klee Wyck and Athlii Gwaii.

We also went to Haida Gwaii as a field study, but I chose not to go to that field study. You should go and check out one of my classmates blog’s as I’m sure they have some pretty pictures.

The at home learners (that includes me) read the book Klee Wyck by Emily Carr and made a “scrapbook” (essentially a prettier version of a book report). I have attached mine to this blog post. A quick summary of the topic of the book is, Emily Carr, a white “settler woman” goes around British Columbia and goes to indigenous communities and tries to be as unobtrusive as possible and observes the people. She makes notes about the culture and practices.

Here is a link to the scrapbook. Scrapbook

The final part of this project was the exhibition. I attached some photos to the bottom of the blog, but a summery of what I did was I make a connections game like the one on the New York Time about different laws that effected Indigenous peoples and the ways they could live their lives. The goal of my activity was to show how laws put in place by the Canadian government dehumanized them. I tried to decided i wanted to make mine a game because I was thinking about previous PLP exhibitions, the parts with food and games usually to the best and I didn’t feel like buying food for a bunch of strangers.

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