{"id":73643,"date":"2020-06-03T14:05:49","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T18:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/?page_id=73643"},"modified":"2020-06-03T14:05:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T18:05:49","slug":"who-are-the-first-nations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/literacy\/literacy-grades-4-6\/reading\/national-indigenous-history-month\/who-are-the-first-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are the First Nations?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-73644\" src=\"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/06\/1000px-Flag_of_the_Iroquois_Confederacy.svg_.png\" alt=\"Haudenosaunee Confederacy Flag\" width=\"400\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/06\/1000px-Flag_of_the_Iroquois_Confederacy.svg_.png 1000w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/06\/1000px-Flag_of_the_Iroquois_Confederacy.svg_-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/06\/1000px-Flag_of_the_Iroquois_Confederacy.svg_-768x461.png 768w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/06\/1000px-Flag_of_the_Iroquois_Confederacy.svg_-165x99.png 165w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/06\/1000px-Flag_of_the_Iroquois_Confederacy.svg_-945x567.png 945w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/06\/1000px-Flag_of_the_Iroquois_Confederacy.svg_-750x450.png 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>Reading: National Indigenous History Month<\/h5>\n<h2>Goals:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Learn more about the First Nations in Canada<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cFirst Nations\u201d is a term used to describe Indigenous peoples in Canada who are not M\u00e9tis or Inuit.<\/p>\n<p>First Nations people, along with the Inuit, are the original inhabitants of the land that is now Canada.<\/p>\n<p>There are 634 First Nations in Canada, speaking more than 50 distinct languages!<\/p>\n<p>According to the 2016 census by Statistics Canada, 977,230 people (almost one million people) in Canada identified as being of First Nations heritage<\/p>\n<p>There are many Nations making up the First Nations peoples! Today, we will learn about one nation, the Haudenosaunee (ho-den-o-show-nee), formerly known as the Iroquois.<\/p>\n<p>Explore <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/cmc\/exhibitions\/aborig\/fp\/fpz3d01e.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">these pages at the Canadian History Museum<\/a> to learn more about the Haudenosaunee Confederacy of six nations. (<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/17EzGf0j6uAl_57HiDqATrSDaqgPJJA4X\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">directions to navigate the site<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>As you read, <a href=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/literacy\/literacy-grades-4-6\/whats-new\/national-indigenous-history-month\/\">add information and questions to your mind map about National Indigenous History Month<\/a>. You can write down facts that help answer some of your questions. You can also write down new questions that you have.<\/p>\n<h3>Other Opportunities:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Keep on <a href=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/literacy\/literacy-grades-4-6\/exploring-the-library-learning-commons\/\">reading books you choose every day<\/a>!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFirst Nations\u201d is a term used to describe Indigenous peoples in Canada who are not M\u00e9tis or Inuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15985,"featured_media":0,"parent":74013,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73643","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-elementary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15985"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73643\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}