You need to be eligible to teach in the province - there is a board of registration I believe, as with other provinces:

http://www.nwtta.nt.ca/teaching_in_the_nwt.html

This means you may have to do a bunch of meaningless courses to get your teaching license in Canada. First Nations History will be one of them...Canadian History and Geography too.

Hi nervous wreck,

If you think the cold and the isolation are your only concerns, I would recommend researching this idea a lot more. Of course if you're open to cultural diversity, new experiences and are without any of the ignorant and arrogant/ethnocentric opinions evidenced by some of the other comments here, it could be an experience of a lifetime. You have to have the right attitude, preparation and expectations.

Oh grow up. Once you have lived this nonsense for any length of time you will forget how to even spell ethnocentric. Try reverse racism in place of cultural diversity (ha) and working within these communities day in and day our before you comment. You evidently have no idea at all.

Wow are you defensive. Did I touch a nerve?

You might want to rethink a critically important assumption you are making about me.

Such as - if you are First Nations, fine lets talk. I have four years of b.s. being levelled at me for just being a Brit in a First Nations community to draw on. Touch a nerve? No...just so tired of reading P.C. bollocks that bears no relationship to the reality of my every day (work) life.

I'm trying to figure out how what I wrote could be read as "P.C. bollocks". Maybe you could enlighten me?

I just composed an ethnocentric masterpiece of a response and lost it...grr...tired now (it being midnight and I worked 15 hrs today). Will answer tomorrow......

"I'm not racist but...."

Talk about taring a whole ethnic group with the same brush!

God, now I see why you call your self "Dingbat"... what a horrible attitude you have. Anyone living in Canada should not regard taking courses in Canadian history or geography as a waste of time. And why such negativity? Just because you find "ethnocentrism" and its connotations a problem, does not entitle you to be any sort of expert. Evidently, its you who has no idea at all...

be careful ... I have a wife who's an ex teacher... a cousin in law who's doing his PhD in native studies and spend upto 60% of his time working in the native comunities (in the Pas Manitoba and southern Alberta) and as regards what you need to teach in these enivroments and its relevance she’s a lot closer to the mark than you realise..

and as to reverse racism...sorry its very real.. you have to understand that your dealing with a culture that has an aural history tradition and as such there history has a lot of emotion attached to it.. I’ve been up and visited my self.. yep its a culture still reeling form losing it nation and struggling to deal with what left of its own culture and how to deal with the gradual dilution into the western world..

and for what its worth a lot of provinces and territories have very specific qualification lists.. and consider the fact if there prepared to by pass these lists to employ you ..There’s a dam good reason why they can’t get a qualified teacher in there

I know what I am talking about. You having a wife who is a teacher and a cousin who is doing a PhD, does make YOU an expert. I wouldn't have posted a comment if this subject area wasn't something I knew about. I realise that Native culture is different from "other Canadian history" - but that is how it should be. I think people have lots of different experiences, and to use a few people's opintions as the norm would be incredibly insensible...

Nope doesn’t make me an expert... but it does make me a person that's listened to experts opinions and discussions, and been given some excellent literature to read in order to increase my knowledge and understanding, along with a few very informative visits with people in the know (namely a bunch of my wife’s ex-pupils off the reserve at Belleterre in Northen Quebec..now their opinions amongst others were very interesting) and its on that basis I though you were jumping the gun on your comments..

And what makes you think I don't have the same experiences as your wife? I am well educated in Native studies, have worked on reserves and have befriended many Native people. Why do you feel my comments are less-accurate? I have obviously had very different experiences as she did working with people from B.C's reserves (especially Musqueam)

You live in York in the UK ... give yourself a couple of years of butting heads with the Canadian system, then you might understand.

Of course I'm a bitter, twisted failure and I can't really talk ... I'm sure you'll do everything much better than I did

I’m curious to know what you mean when you say ‘reverse racism’?