Local/ community First Nation artists and story teller to come in to create collaborative projects to help students more engaged and start to develop interest in the First Nations ways of living and teachings.

It is more important to build awareness and progressively increase the literacy level of students about issues surrounding First Nations. Because the end goal is not to produce a bunch of people fighting and accusing each other; it’s to have students become literate in the type of social issues to produce sound statements of understandings and positive ways to resolve the issues/ conflicts.
*see attached art work/ illustration book

Nature’s Poem art book: this is an illustration book my art class collaborated with Bio class. We invited a First Nations story teller who is very knowledgeable about plants. Her name is t’uy’tanat(Cease Wyss). She took our classes on a field trip to UBC Butanical Garden, she was telling amazing stories about each plant and invited everyone to experience and touch the plants. After the field trip, each student got to take a little sample of a plant back and create their illustrations of all the plants introduced to them. After the illustration, they each got to write a poem to express their experience, understanding, personal feelings/ relations towards the First Nations plant and/ or First Nations knowledge and relationship with nature.