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How do we incorporate Indigenous ways of knowing into the music classroom without appropriating sacred traditions?
This lesson is a carefully constructed answer to that question.
Description: "A music composition lesson (instrumental or vocal) connecting Aboriginal/Indigenous people to the contemporary environment of students and their sense of place and empathy."
The plan includes teacher prompts and information on different elements of the medicine wheel. There are a few sources you can use to learn more about Anishnaabe understanding of the medicine wheel. I suggest fourdirectionsteachings.com
Special thanks to Douglas Friesen, who is one of the authors of this document, and who introduced it to me. It was written in collaboration by folks from the Native Canadian Centre of Toronto and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.
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