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Related Topics and Resources for Fur<strong>the</strong>r Research<br />
• Web site dedicated to James Henderson: Wicite Owapi<br />
Wicasa: <strong>the</strong> man who paints <strong>the</strong> old men:<br />
www.mendel.ca/henderson<br />
• For diverse information on <strong>the</strong> Qu’Appelle Valley, a 2006<br />
<strong>Mendel</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Gallery</strong> exhibition project through Virtual<br />
Museums of Canada: Qu’Appelle—Past/Present/Future:<br />
http://www.mendel.ca/quappelle<br />
• For an extensive educator resource for Saskatchewan<br />
and Canadian art with lesson plans, developed by <strong>the</strong><br />
Ministry of Education and University of Regina around <strong>the</strong><br />
collections of <strong>the</strong> <strong>Mendel</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Gallery</strong> and MacKenzie <strong>Art</strong><br />
<strong>Gallery</strong> in Regina. The <strong>the</strong>mes of Homelands, Isolation and<br />
Landscape, Identity, and Place all contain exciting artists<br />
and activities: www.artsask.ca.<br />
• See <strong>the</strong> Saskatchewan Western Development Museum’s<br />
<strong>Guide</strong> for Teachers: Saskatchewan 1905 to 2005. A<br />
free copy was sent by <strong>the</strong>m in 2008 to every school in<br />
Saskatchewan. It contains numerous lesson plans around<br />
multiple aspects of settlement.<br />
• The exhibition contains portraits and references to<br />
several important people and events. Research any of <strong>the</strong><br />
following:<br />
• Standing Buffalo<br />
• Big Bear<br />
• Chief Crowfoot<br />
• Sitting Bull<br />
• 1885 Resistance<br />
• Trial of Louis Riel (portrait of Justice Hugh Richardson<br />
who presided over <strong>the</strong> trial and sentenced Riel)<br />
• The Blackfoot Confederacy<br />
• Dakota (Sioux) peoples in Saskatchewan<br />
• Cree peoples in Saskatchewan<br />
• Treaty Numbers 4, 6, 7<br />
• 1870 when <strong>the</strong> Hudson’s Bay company sold Rupert’s<br />
Land to <strong>the</strong> Dominion of Canada<br />
• <strong>the</strong> Group of Seven artists in Canada<br />
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• To explore more about o<strong>the</strong>r non-Indigenous artists and<br />
photographers who recorded early Indigenous peoples, see<br />
<strong>the</strong> work of Edward Curtis, Paul Kane, and Edmund Morris.<br />
• For o<strong>the</strong>r educators guides developed by <strong>the</strong> <strong>Mendel</strong> <strong>Art</strong><br />
<strong>Gallery</strong> that could be used for follow-up after <strong>the</strong> tour:<br />
http://www.mendel.ca/schools/resource/index.html<br />
• DiverCity: Immigrant Youth Stories in Saskatoon<br />
• SlammED: raw poetic explorations into moral<br />
intelligence for grades 5 though 8<br />
• Office of <strong>the</strong> Treaty Commissioner: www.otc.ca<br />
• Indian and Nor<strong>the</strong>rn Affairs Canada: www.ainc-inac.gc.ca<br />
• For more lesson plans around Indigenous peoples:<br />
www.edselect.com/first_nations_people.htm<br />
• Canadian Museum of Civilization for web modules<br />
for Kindergarten to Grade 12 under Civilization Clicks,<br />
http://www.civilisations.ca/cmc/exhibitions/onlineexhibitions/first-peoples<br />
(First Peoples of Canada or<br />
Gateway to Aboriginal Heritage)<br />
• For a children’s book related to First Nations stories about<br />
<strong>the</strong> Qu’Appelle Valley, see Qu’Appelle by David Bouchard,<br />
paintings by Michael Lonechild<br />
• Through <strong>the</strong> Eyes of <strong>the</strong> Cree: The <strong>Art</strong> of Allen Sapp:<br />
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/allensapp/
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