Boundless K-12 Curriculum

CONTINUANCE

What traditions are important to your family?

CONTINUANCE is the attribute to endure or remain in existence. To maintain and continue stories, traditions, and ways of life, Indigenous people persist in finding ways to connect their cultural systems into their lives each day.

Learn about CONTINUANCE through the following objects:

An oil painting of an older woman with dark hair wearing a white bonnet and dark dress.

How can portraits help us understand the past?

Quillwork on a birch bark book cover.

Why does continuing the use of traditional knowledge matter?

A basket with a photo of a woman selling baskets on the inside of it.

What can we learn by keeping traditional practices alive?

Two wooden carved canoe paddles hanging on a wall.

How can art tell the story of resilience and survival?

overlapping concentric circles made by ripples in water.

Boundless K-12 Curriculum

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