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CAAS LEARNING EXPECTATIONS: These pedagogical goals should be achieved by the time all students finish secondary school.

ABORIGINAL WORLD VIEW

· demonstrates an awareness of Aboriginal world-view regarding the importance of land, culture and the ideals that foster respect for the environment

· demonstrates an awareness of the inter-relation between: a First Nation People, their specific environment with its life-sustaining resources, and the processing systems the People have used to make use of these resources

· demonstrates an awareness of the role of language in defining and maintaining one's cultural identity, integrity and values, and the impact that loss of one's language would have on one's cultural understandings and world-view

· can evaluate/acknowledges the challenges that the Aboriginal culture faces from the dominant Canadian culture and beliefs, and the way in which this dynamic contributes to the evolving nature of Aboriginal cultures

· can evaluate/acknowledges the content, source and objectives for various explanations for the origins of Aboriginal Peoples in this hemisphere

· can evaluate/acknowledges the difference between the current political status quo and self-determination

· can describe traditional patterns and customs for trade of resources and manufactured goods

· can describe basic elements of the spiritual concepts and ceremonies of Aboriginal Peoples living in or near the student's locality

· can identify the rights and responsibilities of Aboriginal Peoples can identify the rights and responsibilities of Aboriginal Peoples

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