{"id":37,"date":"2012-09-17T16:35:10","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T23:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/indigenizingtheacademy\/?p=37"},"modified":"2013-07-24T16:30:03","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T23:30:03","slug":"elders-aboriginal-advisors-and-culture-a-way-of-being-not-an-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/indigenizingtheacademy\/2012\/09\/17\/elders-aboriginal-advisors-and-culture-a-way-of-being-not-an-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Elders, Aboriginal advisors and Culture: a \u201cway of being\u201d, not an event"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"7928109324_0cc92fb4bc\"<\/a>Communities where there are no bands makes the community liaison job difficult.\u00a0 The students do not self-identify as First Nations. There is an advisory committee to build a better approach to the First Nation program and approaches but the systemic barriers need to be acknowledged before they can be changed.<\/p>\n

\"Indigenizing<\/a>

Mr. Elder with Indigenizing<\/p><\/div>\n

Changes have begun in the way of Elders being invited to open ceremonies and community deliveries. Some Advisory committees include Elders from the community but there needs to be a conversation about the difference between First Nations ways of knowing versus the western way.\u00a0 Culture and tradition needs to be \u2018a way of being\u2019 rather than an event. Strategic plans, education plans and the Board need to be on board to provide consistent, open, direct commitment to the Aboriginal common. Middle management struggles if these senior management leadership elements are not in place. With good and bad past history institutions have some \u2018trust building\u2019 to do with First Nations communities. Campus\u2019s with satellite campus\u2019s face the challenge of who is working at the distant campus.<\/p>\n

Campus\u2019s need to have resident Elders with First Nations involvement and consultation in all activities. Most programming offerings still cover at the European aspect instead of Indigenous material. A tangible description of what Indigenizing means is required so people know what they are expected to change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Communities where there are no bands makes the community liaison job difficult.\u00a0 The students do not self-identify as First Nations. There is an advisory committee to build a better approach to the First Nation program and approaches but the systemic barriers need to be acknowledged before they can be changed. Changes have begun in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[11,12,13,7,10,232],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-governance","tag-aboriginal-advisors","tag-elders","tag-eurocentric-environment","tag-personal-reflections","tag-senior-administrators","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/indigenizingtheacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/indigenizingtheacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/indigenizingtheacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/indigenizingtheacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/indigenizingtheacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/indigenizingtheacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/indigenizingtheacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/indigenizingtheacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/indigenizingtheacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/indigenizingtheacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}