This new project will celebrate while working to preserve the culture of the Anishinabe through technology based on the "STEM" (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math Curriculum) . Students will learn how to use computer assisted design (CAD) software as a medium to explore concepts that include syllabic letter forms of the Ojiway/Oji-Cree indigenous languages and traditional practices.
Promote community driven lessons
In partnership with the Windigo First Nation communities and Nishnawbe Aski Nation the project will share the teachings with the first nation and non - indigenous communities in the province of Ontario through technology.
Available in Oji-Cree, Ojibway, English, French April 1st, 2023
For more information or to collaborate on the project contact project coordinator alex@whiterabbitedu.com
Lesson Plans- from conception to MANIFESTATION
Intro to syllabics
Designing syllabics
Designing syllabics
Learning about syllabics characters used in the Anishabe communities. The typography of each syllabic will be rendered in CAD ready for 3D printing.
Designing syllabics
Designing syllabics
Designing syllabics
Creating Oji-Cree syllabics forms using TinkerCad (free student friendly design program)
- Fish species names with syllabics - Creating fish labels using syllabic characters
Dreamcatchers
Designing syllabics
Traditional net weaving
Students will learn about the forces on structures involved in making a traditional dreamcatchers .
Traditional net weaving
Traditional net weaving
Traditional net weaving
Part 1 - Students will learn about the tools and procedures used in fabricating traditional nets.
Traditional net weaving
Traditional net weaving
Traditional net weaving
Part 2 - Students will create a fishing needle by examining the dimensions and components of traditional needles. Students will use CAD to create some of these objects.
Traditional net weaving
Traditional net weaving
Traditional net weaving
Part 3 - Students will 3D print the designs they have created and use these printed tools to create a fishing net.
Windigo First Nation
Communities
CAT LAKE (Ojibway and English)
Population approx. 610
Treaty 9
Cat Lake First Nation is an Ojibway First Nation reserve approximately 180 kilometres northwest of Sioux Lookout in northwestern Ontario, Canada, located on the central north shore of Cat Lake.
BEARSKIN (Oji-Cree and English)
Population approx. 900
Treaty 9
Bearskin Lake First Nation is an Oji-Cree First Nation reserve in Kenora District, Ontario, Canada, located 425 kilometres north of Sioux Lookout.
SLATE FALLS (Ojibway and English)
Population approx. 241
Treaty 9
Slate Falls First Nation is an Ojibway First Nation band government in Ontario. It has a settlement at Slate Falls in Kenora District, Ontario. As of 2016, the First Nation had a registered population of 241 people, of which the on-reserve population was 9.
SACHIGO (Oji-Cree and English)
Population approx. 814
Treaty 9
Sachigo Lake First Nation is an Oji-Cree First Nation band government in Unorganized Kenora District in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. It is located on Sachigo Lake, part of the Sachigo River system and Hudson Bay drainage basin, approximately 425 kilometers north of the town of Sioux Lookout.
NORTH CARIBOU (Oji-Cree and English)
Population approx. 980
Treaty 9
North Caribou Lake First Nation or Weagamow First Nation, sometimes also known as Round Lake First Nation, is an Oji-Cree First Nations band government who inhabit the Kenora District in northern Ontario, Canada. It is approximately 320 km by air north of Sioux Lookout.
Treaty 9
The James Bay Treaty- Treaty No. 9 is an agreement between the Ojibway, Cree and other Indigenous Nations and the Crown.