Posted on by Heather O'Watch
SUNTEP is a teacher education program that focuses on Métis education and student success.
Janice Thompson is the Program Head for the Saskatchewan Urban Native Teacher Education Program (SUNTEP). SUNTEP is a four-year, fully accredited Bachelor of Education program offered by the Gabriel Dumont Institute in cooperation with the Ministry of Advanced Education, the University of Regina, and the University of Saskatchewan. Prospective students can find campuses located in Saskatoon, Prince Albert, and Regina. The education program is designed around Métis education, cultural revitalization, and language reclamation. The program’s foundations are centered around relationships, academic and personal supports, and land-based learning. Currently, SUNTEP is the only post-secondary academic program in the country that offers Michif as an approved language credit. Thompson believes that, like First Nations education, Métis education needs to be mandated by the province so that Métis history, identity, language, and culture are no longer an after-thought. Equality in education means that our education system must be inclusive of all Indigenous groups, Inuit, Métis, and First Nations, and be mandated by our provincial government.
Posted on by Heather O'Watch
Founder, Belinda Daniels discusses the nêhiyawak Summer Language Experience that takes place annually in Saskatchewan as a week-long immersive Cree language course.
The nêhiyawak Summer Language Experience was formed in early 2005 in efforts to revitalize the Cree language with an intensive summer language course open to anyone willing to learn Cree. With applications growing every year for the summer experience, wait lists have been added to ensure participants can look forward to the experience with a one-week immersion course that is land-based. Belinda Daniels shares her efforts to bring language and land together in education through the nêhiyawak Summer Language Experience’s success.
Posted on by Yvonne Benjoe
Schools in SK must legally teach Treaty education, honour and recognize Indigenous ways of knowing, and provide opportunities for students to engage in cultural and language revitalization.
Scott Collegiate is a high school in Regina, Saskatchewan that provides unique educational opportunities for students in Grades 9, 10, 11, and 12. The student population is 90% Indigenous and their programs reflect Indigenous education and aims to increase attendance and graduation rates while developing community. The school’s programs include: the Learning and Re-engagement Program, the Land-Based Program, the Elder-in-Residence Program, and the Grade 9 and 10 Cree Language Program. The school also works in partnership with the Regina Public Library, Lumsden Beach Camp, and First Nations University of Canada to bring quality programming to their students. Elders within Scott Collegiate are valuable Knowledge Keepers who share their culture and language with the school and community. For more information, visit: https://scottcollegiate.rbe.sk.ca/
Posted on May 4, 2018 by Annita Lucchesi
In this interview, kindergarten teacher Arlene Ward speaks on the importance of culturally relevant and diverse books for young learners, how she integrates Blackfoot and other languages into her curriculum, and why culture-based classroom activities make a difference for her students at Opokaa’sin Early Intervention Society. https://www.opokaasin.org/
In this interview, kindergarten teacher Arlene Ward speaks on the importance of culturally relevant and diverse books for young learners, how she integrates Blackfoot and other languages into her curriculum, and why culture-based classroom activities make a difference for her students at Opokaa’sin Early Intervention Society.
https://www.opokaasin.org/
Posted on May 2, 2018 by Pam Greene
The White Cloud Head Start Program provides Indigenous pre-school children with a positive sense of themselves, their culture and offers them an opportunity to develop and learn different skills to be successful in the school system. The program is located at Sherwood Elementary School in Edmonton, Alberta. The program is one of 16 programs through […]
The White Cloud Head Start Program provides Indigenous pre-school children with a positive sense of themselves, their culture and offers them an opportunity to develop and learn different skills to be successful in the school system. The program is located at Sherwood Elementary School in Edmonton, Alberta. The program is one of 16 programs through the Bent Arrow Traditional Healing Society. It supports Indigenous children to walk proudly in two worlds while getting them ready for the regular school system. The White Cloud Head Start Program runs from September – June.
Posted on April 27, 2018 by Carter Kuiper
Dorothy Thunder describes the Cree language program being offered to University of Alberta students and the teaching techniques that are involved with the program.
A Cree language program open to all students at the University. This program incorporates modern teachings with traditional with the goal of helping Aboriginal students learn the language used by their ancestors as well as people of any ethnicity learn the language and history. Classes take place during the normal schedule hours of the University.
Posted on April 20, 2018 by Carter Kuiper
A readiness program for children starting in the education system. To prepare, and learn to behave in a school setting.
A readiness program for children starting in the education system. To prepare, and learn to behave in a school setting.
Posted on April 9, 2018 by Richard Stecenko
Demian Lawrenchuk has led a Christmas break school program that focuses on land-based cultural activities in Gillam, MB.
Demian Lawrenchuk is from Fox Lake Cree Nation in Manitoba. Lawrenchuk is in an apprenticeship program with community Elders, who are teaching him about the traditional use of land, plants, and animals. He volunteers his time at both Fox Lake School and the school in Gillam, Manitoba where he has led a Christmas break school program that focuses on land-based cultural activities. The activities included making and setting snares; catching animals (rabbits, martins, etc.); skinning, tanning, cooking, and making clothes out of them. The program offers students an opportunity to reconnect with the land and reinforce a sense of cultural and historical continuity with their ancestors. During the 2017-2018 school year, he has shown the grade 4-8 classes in Fox Lake how to garden vegetables, clean certain kinds of fish, plant medicine, skin a martin, and make a drum.
Posted on March 20, 2018 by Casey Leslie
The Indigenous Language Instructors Program is a teacher education program based out of Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
Casey Leslie speaks with Bryanna Scott (Indigenous Education Program Coordinator) & John O’Meara (Dean of Education) at Lakehead University.
The Indigenous Language Instructors Program is a teacher education program based out of Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario. It is a language program aimed at training fluent speakers in 1 of 4 Algonquin Languages (Ojibway, Cree, Oji-Cree, Delaware) to teach the languages in classrooms across Ontario.
