The Cypress Hills: An Island by Itself Music & Dance Guided Reading Level: X

Guided Reading Level: X

#2: White Space

Rebecca is of mixed heritage and grew up off-reserve and was 6 years old before she began getting to know her father

the Indian Act

Written as a simple rhyming poem for elementary students in primary level grades partnered with teacher notes and suggested activities this book offers parents and teachers the opportunity to introduce children to the First Nations

The Cypress Hills: An Island by Itself Music & Dance Guided Reading Level: XWith an abundance of buffalo, other game, and lodge pole pine, the hills straddling the Alberta Saskatchewan United States border were a natural gathering point for First Nations and Mtis peoples. Their presence drew the Hudson Bay Company and American free traders, whiskey traders, and wolfers, resulting in a clash of cultures culminating in the 1873 Cypress Hills massacre, an armed ambush of a Nakoda camp by a group of drunken wolfers and whiskey