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Lesson 1 - Introductory Activity

Initiate a discussion with students as to how they think history can be recorded. Does history always have to be written? Discuss the concept of oral history and how that was the primary means of transmitting culture, heritage and traditions for Aboriginal People. What other ways do students think history can be told? For instance, can it be told through information recorded in art or preserved artifacts?

Students will illustrate an event, situation, or story that may have occurred when Aboriginal People and Europeans met for the first time. The drawings are meant to illustrate a story.

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