Today’s word to consider not using re: First Nations “Indigenous.” It fails to capture the distinctness of First Nations. Use the Nation name or First Nations or for all original Peoples in Canada- First Nations, Metis and Inuit
“Treaty education camp highlights teachers' role in eliminating racism in classrooms” https://t.co/FvCW8pbEmT great profile of #TreatyEdCamp including an interview w/ @rrbellefleur
Thank you to everyone who helped make #treatyedcamp 4.0 successful: volunteers, attendees, sponsors & organizers. We couldn't have done it without you.
“These are just not stories Canada needs to hear. These are stories Canada needs to feel. “
- Chief Wilson Littlechild, a TRC commissioner @VanierTreaty4#TreatyEdCamp
Interested in getting involved or learning more about UR STARS and the work we do? Sign up sheets are posted at the bottom of the stairs, outside the Ed Aud and in the TPC.
“It is precisely because education was the primary tool of oppression of Aboriginal people, and miseducation of all Canadians, that we have concluded that educations holds the key to reconciliation” - @SenSincmurr#TreatyEdCamp
“The primary objective of smudging in schools is aimed at creating cultural awareness and aiding in the process of gaining a sense of cultural identity” #TreatyEdCamp
Thank you to this lunch crew and to Scott Collegiate students for assembling and providing bannock, cookies, muffins and fruit. Lunch is $6 in the TPC (ED 228). #treatyedcamp
4.0
“Of course I don’t put my faith in the idea that Canada will set me free, will honour me, as an Indigenous woman.” - @EricaVioletLee#tapwebombs in Regina, SK on justice and equality in Canada
“Be safe. I hope you are safe, even though I know you might not be, walking home. When are we ever safe, in this colonial state?” - @EricaVioletLee on how Indigenous women protect each other // #TreatyEdCamp in Regina, SK