Kindling

weaving Indigenous perspectives into education

[Werklund School @UCalgaryEduc]

@UCalgaryEduc @kindlingconvo @karleefellner You've been quoted in my #Storify story "Kindling Conversations" http://t.co/LClritjjgV

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Please join us for our next #kindlingconvo event!! March 20, 5pm at the Red Lodge, U of C Native Student Centre!

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we will conserve only what we love. we will love only what we understand. we will understand only what we're taught-J. Ottman @kindlingconvo

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Indigenous education is about strengthening Indigenous identities, families, and communities - Jan Hare @UCalgaryEduc #kindlingconvo

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we need to build confidence and capacities of our non-Indigenous allies in doing this kind of work - Jan Hare @UCalgaryEduc #kindlingconvo

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Indigenous education is a complex set of practices that need to occur across programs, faculties, peoples-Jan Hare @UCalgaryEduc #education

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our lives are about relationships. building relationships is the start of this work - Jan Hare @UCalgaryEduc #kindlingconvo #education

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the reconciliation process is giving us some movement in Indigenous education-Jan Hare #kindlingconvo #indigenous #education #reconciliation

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we need to move away from either/or thinking toward both/and thinking - Allan Luke @UCalgaryEduc #kindlingconvo #indigenous #education

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school has turned knowledge into a commodity - Allan Luke @UCalgaryEduc #kindlingconvo #Indigenous #education #decolonize #reciprocity

[Karlee Fellner @karleefellner]

Allan Luke Chris Scout Jan Hare Evelyn Good Striker Dwayne Donald-story keepers@kindlingconvo #indigenizingtheacademy

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we are all responsible. this gift of knowledge comes with responsibility for change - Chris Scout @UCalgaryEduc #kindlingconvo #indigenize

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it is easy to think of reasons not to do something. this is a call to action - we have to go out and do something now - Chris Scout

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we have to come together - we have to learn more - build that trust honour respect - build a better place for our children @UCalgaryEduc

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we have voices we have answers we can solve problems - Evelyn Good Striker #kindlingconvo #listen #learn #Indigenous #education

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our voices are not considered valid by mainstream - Evelyn Good Striker @UCalgaryEduc #kindlingconvo #Indigenous #education #listen #learn

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if we don't deal with the roots of the problem, we're going to pour more into a glass that's already full. need to reconceptualize-D. Donald

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resist the desire to understand or solve the mystery of life - Dwayne Donald #complexity #decolonize #indigenize #kindlingconvo

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view Allan Luke & Jean Phillips' full report at: http://t.co/D04MJXv3Kj @UCalgary @UCalgaryEduc #kindlingconvo #Indigenous #education

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this is not about Aboriginal peoples, this is about a white system in deficit - Phillips & Luke #kindlingconvo #Indigenous #education