Aboriginal Teacher Education Program

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• Check out a database's Thesaurus to find appropriate keywords for the item for which you are looking. 

• A longer search query helps databases retrieve more specific resources

• Using "OR" between terms will retrieve more results

• Using "AND" between terms will retrieve less results
   
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• Add "Study and teaching" as a search concept to find resources about the educational aspects of studying and teaching a particular subject
• Add grade or level of education (e.g. elementary, secondary) to your search strategy.

When searching the library catalogue try these terms:

• residential schools AND videorecording

Many films can be found online or in the our video databases.

• Truth and Reconciliation Channel: Vimeo
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  A full listing of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission videos available via Vimeo. Includes survivor interviews, official ceremonies and more.

To find books and articles about First Nations, Metis and Inuit topics in Education try these search terms when searching the library catalogue:

• Native Peoples AND Education

• Indigenous Peoples AND Education

• Indians of North America Alberta Treaties

Add "juvenile" to your catalog search to limit your results to items appropriate for K-12 students. You can also try some of our suggested searches:

• Blackfoot AND Juvenile

• Cree AND juvenile fiction

• Dene AND juvenile

• Indians of North America AND juvenile fiction

• Inuit AND juvenile fiction

• Michif AND juvenile

• Métis AND juvenile fiction