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Robert Houle: Make a Creative Response to a Treaty Text

Independent Student Learning Activity

Robert Houle: Make a Creative Response to a Treaty Text

Grades 7 to 12

Using Robert Houle’s art as a starting point, this independent activity will examine treaty texts and decolonization in art. In this activity, students will research a treaty that is relevant to their local community and create an artwork to demonstrate their reflections on their personal connections to the treaty. Students will need previous experience in analyzing a variety of primary and secondary sources and synthesizing this knowledge.

  • Creative responses to historical events and treaties
  • Decolonization
  • Indigenous experiences of major historical events
  • Importance of treaties nationally and within students’ communities
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