1. First Language Literacy – communicating in Inuktitut or Inuinnaqtun.
  2. Oral Literacy – communicating the wisdom from generation to generation orally.
  3. Literacy in the Languages of the Newcomers – using English and French but reclaiming Aboriginal voices and interpretations of the past.
  4. Technical Literacy – communicating through technology – computers, on-line learning, getting connected to others through the internet.
  5. Creative Literacy – communicating through symbols – crafts, art, music, sign language, pictures, drama, clothing design.
  6. Spiritual and Cultural Literacy – ‘spiritual seeing’ – interpreting dreams, signs, visions or natural events.
  7. Holistic Literacy – integration of all of the ways of knowing – balancing mind, body, heart and spirit for healing.

Aboriginal Approach to Learning

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From “Native Learning Styles” by Michael Johnny, published by Ningwakwe Learning Press, Owen Sound, Ontario, 2002.

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