K-4 (45 min)

Multi-media presentation to include photographs, a music video, brief readings from Not My Girl, and When I Was Eight, and a visual interactive exercise that walks children through identifying and articulating the emotions experienced by Margaret-Olemaun during her journey of attending Residential School. The presentation is augmented by storytelling from Margaret-Olemaun. Topics covered include: Inuvialuit culture, Indian Residential School history, bullying, and resilience.

 

4-12 (1 hr)

Multi-media presentation to include photographs, a music video, readings from Fatty Legs and A Stranger at Home. The presentation is augmented by storytelling from Margaret-Olemaun, and audience questions. Topics covered include: Inuvialuit culture, Indian Residential School history, bullying, and resilience, an introduction to decolonized perspectives, the intergenerational effects of IRS, and avenues of truth and reconciliation. Presentations ae tailored to share the appropriate depth of information for the maturity of the audience.

 

University Students (General) (1 hr 30 min)

Multi-media presentation to include photographs, a music video, readings from Fatty Legs and A Stranger at Home. The presentation is augmented by storytelling from Margaret-Olemaun and audience questions. Topics covered include: Inuvialuit culture, Indian Residential School history, bullying, and resilience, an introduction to decolonized perspectives, the intergenerational effects of IRS, other resources to explore, and avenues of truth and reconciliation. Presentations go into great depth concerning decolonized perspectives, the objectives of IRS, the abuse experienced, and the fallout of that abuse.

 

Student Teachers, Educators, Librarians (1 hr 30- full day)

Multi-media presentation to include photographs, a music video, readings from Fatty Legs and A Stranger at Home. The presentation is augmented by storytelling from Margaret-Olemaun and audience questions. Topics covered (depending on time allotted and specific needs) include: Inuvialuit culture, Indian Residential School history, bullying, and resilience, an introduction to decolonized perspectives, the intergenerational effects of IRS, other resources to explore (books, films, art, music), lesson plans, classroom activities, dealing with the any problems that may arise from teaching about IRS history (from resistance from IRS survivor parents and guardians, to students who have experienced abuse and how they may be triggered, to teaching such subject matter in religiously affiliated schools, and much more),  avenues of truth and reconciliation and how to involve students in those, how to design a curriculum that can be inserted into the mainstream curriculum (such as a language arts novel study for a book about IRS), how technology can be used to teach this subject matter, and sample projects from teachers. Presentations go into great depth concerning decolonized perspectives and why they are important to understand before teaching about IRS, as well as the intergenerational effects and what is meant by “it takes seven generations to heal.”

 

 

General Public Audience (1 hr 30+)

Multi-media presentation to include photographs, a music video, readings from Fatty Legs and A Stranger at Home. IRS history and Inuvialuit culture are explored with the bulk of the emphasis on reading passages, Margaret-Olemaun’s storytelling, and questions from the audience. While education is an important part of these presentations, they tend to be a touch less weighty than for educationally focused audiences, and use a more gentle approach to introduce IRS history. These presentation also cover a few more general interest topics as well (such as publishing a book, or what it is like to work as a mother-in-law/ daughter-in-law team), unless specified otherwise.

 

Skype (1 hr)

A question and answer session, complemented with storytelling, and insights into resilience, and how the books came to be.

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Webinars

Designed to suit.

 

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