Posted on June 10, 2019 by Coty Zachariah
Inuit Education Support Program
Tungasuvvingat Inuit – Education Support Program
o The goal of the Education Support Program is to provide supports and resources to Inuit learners in the Ottawa, Ontario region. Included in programming are skills-based learning opportunities, social events, cultural sensitivity training if needed at post-secondary institutions and emotional guidance. They work with Indigenous centres on campus to provide the necessary supports and knowledge to encourage the success of Inuit students. Some programming within the organization has outdoor activities and interactions with the land in the surrounding area. The program supports Inuit students throughout the academic calendar year while they study at local post-secondary institutions. The education support programming offered is for all Inuit learners aged 18-30’s and their families in the Ottawa area.
Is there a website for more information? What is it?
o http://tungasuvvingatinuit.ca/
Posted on June 4, 2019 by Dene Basil
Yukon First Nation History and knowledge
Harold Johnson talks about the Long Ago Peoples Place near Champagne Village, Yukon. The Long Ago peoples Place is a living museum of how Yukon First Nations people used to live and survive in the Yukon. The walk through meseum facility highlights a time line of what life was like back in the early years all the way to present times. Such as what those early Yukon First Nation people used to live in and their means of hunting with tools and weapons. The walk through museum facility is a way to learn, engage, heal, pass on, and revitalize Yukon First Nation ways of life culture and traditions.
Posted on May 31, 2019 by Tina Trombley
Holly Rae Yuzicapi uses Indigenous cultural art techniques to teach about Indigenous history and culture, identity, personal expression, and defining relationships to the land.
Holly Rae Yuzicapi is a proud Dakota/Lakota woman from the Standing Buffalo Dakota Nation in southern Saskatchewan. She is an instructor of cultural arts, traditional food, and traditional games, facilitating workshops for all ages throughout Canada and the United States. Her workshops are predominantly offered to schools, from early elementary to high school, and have been adapted for teacher professional development engagements.
The cultural arts workshops are offered over the course of several classes so that students understand the history of both culture and art, establish their own connection with what they are learning, and to ensure their spirit is engaged while their mind and body are expressing themselves through art. In her workshops, she focuses on cultural parallels instead of cultural differences and discusses six common elements of culture: language, kinship, process and transferring of traditional knowledge, connection to the environment, ceremonies and celebrations, and forms of expression.
For Yuzicapi, it is essential that individuals come to understand their identity and cultural art engagements offer a gateway to connecting identities to art forms of expression. She harvests traditional and natural materials like: porcupine quills, fish scales, and moose hair for quillwork, beadwork, and embroidery. Yuzicapi’s workshops enhance school programs by using art to build cross-cultural understanding while being infused with Indigenous history and art.
Posted on by Lily Desmoulins
Melissa Oskineegish speaks with Language instructor Larry Beardy about his experience working in the Indigenous Language Instructor’s Program at Lakehead University (formerly known as NLIP). Larry discusses what he believes are important skills required to be a language instructor as well as the impact of Indigenous language on a person’s identity and well-being.
Melissa Oskineegish speaks with Language instructor Larry Beardy about his experience working in the Indigenous Language Instructor’s Program at Lakehead University (formerly known as NLIP). Larry discusses what he believes are important skills required to be a language instructor as well as the impact of Indigenous language on a person’s identity and well-being.
Posted on May 23, 2019 by Coty Zachariah
Reconciliation projects and exchanges
Canadian Roots Exchange (CRE) is an active youth organization with a mission to strengthen relationships between Indigenous & non-Indigenous youth by facilitating dialogue through leadership programs, exchanges, national gatherings, and workshops. They run national programming and develop teams in major cities across the country that work on reconciliation projects and bridging the gaps between our differing cultures.
Posted on May 22, 2019 by Frannie and Kisa Rogers
Darlene Horseman is a professor at the Grande Prairie Regional College. She shares her perspective of the post secondary education system and process from her experience as a student to a professor. She speaks of what was taught in Indigenous studies and how it has changed from very vague information to very concise.
Darlene Horseman is a professor at the Grande Prairie Regional College. She shares her perspective of the post secondary education system and process from her experience as a student to a professor. She speaks of what was taught in Indigenous studies and how it has changed from very vague information to very concise.
Posted on May 21, 2019 by Coty Zachariah
First Nations led education in community
The Akwesahsne Freedom School was started in 1979 by parents in the Mohawk community that saw a need to preserve their ways and play an active role in the education of the nation starting with the children. They wanted their kids to be educated in the language, to be raised with ceremony and culture on the land of their ancestors without the influence and interference of the Western world. This approach has lead to results such as an increase in speakers of Mohawk language, rejuvenation of cultural strength and familiarity, and the continuance of inter-generational hands on learning.
Posted on by Catherine Charest
Ce programme concerne une sortie d’école qui vise l’apprentissage des savoirs traditionnels auprès des jeunes de la communauté de Pakua-Shipu. Cette sortie d’école favorise le Innu-aitun (culture Innu) en sortant dans le territoire ancestral de la communauté, durant l’hiver du mois de janvier à mars. Cette sortie vise une clientèle de jeunes étudiants au niveau […]
Ce programme concerne une sortie d’école qui vise l’apprentissage des savoirs traditionnels auprès des jeunes de la communauté de Pakua-Shipu. Cette sortie d’école favorise le Innu-aitun (culture Innu) en sortant dans le territoire ancestral de la communauté, durant l’hiver du mois de janvier à mars. Cette sortie vise une clientèle de jeunes étudiants au niveau du primaire jusqu’au niveau de secondaire deux (2), en adaptation scolaire, mais aussi ayant un bon rendement académique.
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Posted on May 16, 2019 by Echo Mcleod
Blair Beaucage an Indigenous teacher at Nbisiing Secondary School talks about his own desire to understand Indigenous education within the Anishinabe perspective. Blair of Nipissing First Nation talks about the importance of understanding traditional methods of knowledge by learning on and from the land.
Blair Beaucage an Indigenous teacher at Nbisiing Secondary School talks about his own desire to understand Indigenous education within the Anishinabe perspective. Blair of Nipissing First Nation talks about the importance of understanding traditional methods of knowledge by learning on and from the land.
