2014 greenSPEAK Seminar Series Tuesday, April 1, 2014 Shirley Hardman, Senior Advisor Indigenous Affairs and Chantelle Marlor offered a joint Seminar Indigenous Perspectives and understanding biological or ecological knowledge. More and more work is being done to tie together Resource Management, Environmental Studies, and Aboriginal Ecological Knowledge, so that balanced relationships with their environments facilitate comprehensive understanding of […]
Dr. Lynne Davis’ Keynote speech can be found in full on the Resources-Videos page. Below, a summary: Posted by Carol Mammel Dr. Lynne Davis from Trent University spoke to the profound sharing, as she prepared to give her presentation. Beautiful, beautiful energy had begun the journey with its sacred beginning, with the sweat lodge, the […]
It has been estimated that it will take 65,000 graduates to close the gap in Aboriginal post-secondary educational attainment. In 2011, Canada’s Auditor General said the disparity between First Nations education and the rest of Canada is real and unacceptable. Lloyd Barber Summit on Aboriginal Post-Secondary Education: “Identifying Best Practices”
Elders stressed that best practices in indigenizing would include making language and particularly language immersion an important part of indigenization. Indigenous teaching methods – employing patience, and teaching with love, with “no slapping or yelling” — were recommended as well, rather than token efforts (“not enough to take a non-indigenous program and slap a name […]
Coyote is in the forest and loses his needle. Owl comes and asks coyote ‘what’s wrong’? Coyote tells Owl ‘I’m looking for my needle.’ Owl says to Coyote ‘I’ll help you find your needle’ and then soars up into the sky and circles the area looking for the needle. He comes back down and tells […]
Personal and Institutional Reflections on Indigenizing the Academy Workshop I Breakout Group 7 (Senior Administrators 2) A need to work more closely with all levels With good and bad past history institutions have some ‘trust building’ to do with First Nations communities. How to indigenize? Need a definition Need to start with Aboriginal advisors Have […]