Creating Culturally Appropriate Curriculum

Hi pamela there is a great deal of info out there. A great pedagogy resource book would be Gregory Cayete(Cajete) "Native science".  We use to run a traditional indigenous science camp at a school I was at. I recieved funding from Indian and Northern Affairs. I was recentlty apart of the writing team on the new science curriculum and we tried to add indigenous knowledge into all aspect of the curriculum.  My specialty is in the area of traditional technology. We build bark canoes, snowshoes, tikanagans, sleds etc. in our traditional technology program. I integrate language, traditional knowledge about harvesting resources (we do a study on the birch) and then of course we celebrate the traditional craft of the bark canoe.  I talk about weight ratio capacity for snowshoes, canoes etc.  Most of the teaching happens on the land besides the building because it ends up being winter when we build. Actually one of our Canoes is at First Nation house on U of T campus. Allowing students to work on project based learning tasks is much more authentic and it usually ends up giving back to the community. Cheers