Title: Indigenous Territory Forum
Course: Social Studies 08 - 1.0.0.0 > Section: Unit 5: Indigenous Life and Colonization in Canada

In this forum, you will create a brief land acknowledgement statement about the place where you live. Then, you will tell your classmates about the way of life of the Indigenous First Nation whose traditional territory you live in.

1. Find out what Indigenous Nation or group calls your home its traditional territory. There may be more than one.
2. Create a brief land acknowledgement statement. You can use this statement as a model for your own:

I would like to acknowledge that the land on which I live, work, and play is the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Semiahmoo First Nation, and the broader territory of the Coast Salish Peoples.
1. Do some online research on one of the First Nations or Indigenous groups that you mentioned in your land acknowledgement. Find five interesting facts about the way of life of this group of Indigenous people. You should specifically look for:

  - Their way of life before European contact
  - At least one fact about family or social structure
  - At least one fact about resources from the land that they used

You can write your information in a brief paragraph. Your total post should be between 150 and 200 words.

Once you have written your own paragraph, respond to two classmates with a brief 50- to 100-word response. Find and write about one additional interesting fact about the Indigenous group they wrote about so that you can add to each other’s learning.

Rubric

 | Insufficient Evidence | Emerging | Developing | Proficient | Extending
 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
Understanding of Indigenous group | There is too little content to adequately assess my proficiency. I need to resubmit this assignment. | I show an initial understanding of the Indigenous group I researched, and a limited understanding of its social structures and use of resources. | I show a satisfactory understanding of the Indigenous group I researched, including its social structure and use of resources. | I show an effective understanding of the Indigenous group I researched, including its social structure and use of resources. | I show a mature understanding of the Indigenous group I researched, including its social structure and use of resources.