Shaneseanne.ca

Shanese Steele is a private consultant and a former student at Trent University, who’s work “encompasses building bridges between Black and Indigenous peoples living on both Turtle Island and Globally.” Shanese, as both an Anishinaabe Kwe and a Black person of Trinidadian and Grenadian descent, “understands the complexities of the diasporic experiences of visitors to these lands in relationship to the original inhabitants.”

Artists Against Racism

Artists Against Racism (AAR) is a registered charity whose powerful International campaigns create an awareness of the inherent equality of us all, and winner of the Global Tolerance Award. Founded in November 1995, AAR is a group of directors, visual artists, authors, musicians, actors and comedians who have come together to teach youth that regardless of one’s religion, ethnicity, or skin colour, that we are all one people, one of their goals is to prevent youth from adopting prejudiced attitudes through education. 

The ON Canada Project: Settlers taking Action

The On Canada Project (formerly the ON COVID-19 Project) was initially founded to fill the gap in official communications about the COVID-19 pandemic that lacked compassion and did not speak to young Canadians, marginalized folks, and those with less privilege. They are a grassroots, youth-led, volunteer-based initiative of Millennials and Gen Z that disrupts social conversations by ensuring all Canadians are fully informed with credible facts to engage in debate, discussion, and activism with their friends and family.

What Matters in Indigenous Education: Implementing a Vision Committed to Holism, Diversity, and Engagement

The People for Education resource written by Dr. Pamela Toulouse, emphasizes the importance of incorporating Indigenous knowledge and culture into all education systems within Canada. To give readers a better understanding why incorporating Indigenous education into school systems in Canada is important, the website provides brief background information about colonization within Canada. This allows public readers to recognize how these Indigenous issues are not often supported within education and how they can be interconnected within the educational curriculum in the future.

It is important that settlers take responsibility for the actions of their ancestors. By exploring these acts of colonialism within the education systems, non-Indigenous Canadians create meaningful relationships among Indigenous peoples and focus on how incorporating such important information within the school systems will help decolonize Canada and build reconciliation among Indigenous peoples in the future. The People for Education website gives non-Indigenous people the opportunity to learn about and create diversity and holism within every classroom.

URL: https://peopleforeducation.ca/report/what-matters-in-indigenous-education/

What Matters in Indigenous Education: Implementing a Vision Committed to Holism, Diversity, and Engagement

The People for Education resource written by Dr. Pamela Toulouse, emphasizes the importance of incorporating Indigenous knowledge and culture into all education systems within Canada. To give readers a better understanding why incorporating Indigenous education into school systems in Canada is important, the website provides brief background information about colonization within Canada. This allows public readers to recognize how these Indigenous issues are not often supported within education and how they can be interconnected within the educational curriculum in the future.

Queen’s University – Treaties Recognition Week

Treaties recognition week was introduced across Ontario in 2016, to help settlers recognize and understand the importance of Indigenous Treaties. Treaties teach us about the importance of our relationships and responsibilities to our ancestors and how to honour these Indigenous Treaties. Recognizing the importance of the many Treaties in Ontario, helps non-Indigenous people understand the need to honour these treaties and acknowledge the traditional territory they learn, work, and thrive on, daily.

How to Be an Ally to Indigenous Peoples

Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario created a webpage that expresses the importance of creating alliances with Indigenous peoples. This webpage was designed to express the privileges that white settlers have taken for granted in the past and in today’s society as well as helping to remove obstacles that continue to disturb the rights of Indigenous peoples. This online resource gives students and community members a good place to start when it comes to creating

Negahneewin Reading Series

This is a collaborative effort between the library and the Indigenous studies department at Confederation College in Thunder Bay, Ontario. The Negahneewin Institute was born in the 1980s thanks to community leaders and Confederation college representatives who decided that intercultural education would be better for everybody.

Incorporating technology into Unique apps to promote storytelling, health, wellness and growth in rural communities

Created in 2012, Pinnguaq is a not-for-profit whose focus is on “providing play experiences in indigenous languages”, and whose mission is to “embrace technology as a means of unifying and enabling all people”, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous. Their initiatives are to incorporate play and gaming “to a wide reaching applications that can benefit tourism, education, and economic development”.

Honour Water: A Video game app

Created by Nunavut based developer Pinnguaq, in partnership with Nibi Walk and the Research for Indigenous Community Health Center, Honour Water is a singing game for healing water, where “water teachings are interwoven with singing challenges alongside art” by artist Elizabeth LaPensée.

Re-imagining Reconciliation and the Future of Canada: an episode from Ideas on CBC Radio

While this is a singular episode from the show, it’s a powerful talk given by Doug White at the Vancouver Island University Indigenous Speakers Series. He discusses and looks at the ways in which reconciliation has been tackled, but what those efforts have lacked and why they haven’t worked as well as it was thought they would.

Montreal Urban Aboriginal Community Strategy Network: Indigenous ally toolkit

Although it’s a recent initiative, The Indigenous Ally Toolkit released by the Montreal Urban Aboriginal Community Strategy Network is a resource that tackles frequently asked questions, as well as the do’s and don’ts of being an ally. Rather than being a super in-depth kind of tool, it covers the general basics, for generally new allies,

Karen Jamieson Dance: Dialogue Through Dance

Through the expression of Indigenous dance, culture can always be expressed. Two women have pushed these boundaries of dance expression, to create a blend of Indigenous dance and European dance. The goal of their dance is to

‘Listen to the Walls’: Decolonizing the Streets of Montreal Through Art

Street art has been a trend that for many years has been looked down upon. A positive and inclusive message could perhaps change that thought. In Montreal, Unceded Voice is a street art initiative that brings Indigenous-identified women, women of color, queer, two-spirit and gender nonconforming artists.

Indigenous Fashion Week in Toronto

Indigenous fashion week in Toronto is for everyone. It is a freedom of expression through clothing design. The Indigenous fashion week in Toronto blog states that regardless of class, gender, culture race, geographic location, education level, artistic understanding or professional industry, every person is welcome to participate and showcase their talents. Toronto’s Indigenous fashion week’s designers are made up of

CBC Vancouver Supports Indigenous Artists Through the Talking Stick Festival

In Vancouver BC, the initiative to support Indigenous artists through the Talking Stick Festival takes place annually around February. This festival showcases Indigenous culture through many different art forms. The Full Circle Talking Stick Festival is

The Secret Life of Canada: A History Podcast

This podcast was created to teach Canadian history in a truthful way—using stories and narratives being shared of the true past of the country. This history podcast brings you the stories about the country you know and the stories you don’t. Some of the episodes include Indigenous Peoples e.g. Fred Sasakamoose, Tom Longboat. 

Wet’Suwet’en Strong: Supporter Toolkit

This source not only provides links to background information on Gidimt’en territory but also has resources for settler people to support the Wet’suwet’en Nation and act against the injustices they are currently facing. This is a good reference point for settlers seeking to educate themselves on Indigenous issues and gives directions for acting. 

Canadian Cancer Society: An Inuit woman’s Journey for Treatment

The Canadian Cancer Society partnered with Pauktuutit organization to create awareness about cancer treatment for Inuit people in Canada. Below is a link to a video story about an Inuit woman named Sophie. In the video, she is sharing her experience battling cancer and her experiences receiving treatment. This partnership exposes how the Canadian healthcare system works in the northern part of Canada

The REDress Project: Missing or Murdered Indigenous Women Across Canada

The First Nations and Indigenous Studies Program interviewed the artist behind the REDress Project, and its latest exhibition happening on university campuses across Canada. Jaime Black explains in the article that the REDress Project art installation involves 600 donated red dresses being displayed on university campuses to draw awareness to the missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada.

TRACKS Youth Program: Trent Aboriginal Cultural Knowledge and Science

TRACKS is a program that runs out of Trent University that focuses on using a Two-Eyed Seeing principle at the core of their programs. They are geared towards Indigenous knowledge and science and also prioritize looking at how these principles overlap and intersect with western science.

Building Indigenous Relations in an Age of Reconciliation

In British Columbia, the Building Indigenous Relations in an Age of Reconciliation workshop was held by Science Borealis, Curiosity Collider, Science Writers and Communicators of Canada, and the Hakai Institute. The workshops were led by Michelle Washington and Lou-ann Neel. Washington is a member of the Tla’amin village, while Neel is from the Kwakwaka’wakw Nation. The workshops they led were designed to help individuals from all areas of science learn how to develop relationships

OISE: Infusing Indigenous Perspectives in K-12 Teaching

After the Ford government scrapped the Truth and Reconciliation curriculum (TRC) that would have been taught in public schools, Desmond Wong decided to act. Mr. Wong, a librarian at the University of Toronto, created a compilation of educational tools that can be used by teachers to teach students about Indigenous peoples and Truth and Reconciliation, now that there will be no standard provincial curriculum. When pressed why he felt it was important to create this compilation for teachers, Wong explained,

Decolonizing Pedagogies: Teacher Reference Booklet

This document compiled by Heather E. McGregor who was a Ph.D. student in Curriculum and Pedagogy at the University of British Columbia in 2012, outlines ways to make pedagogical changes to the curriculum to include Indigenous pedagogy rather than Indigenous content. She argues that “revising the content of education to better reflect Indigenous perspectives is often the focus of curricular reform.

Ally Bill of Responsibilities: By © Dr. Lynn Gehl, Algonquin Anishinaabe-kwe

Dr. Lynn Gehl is an Algonquin Anishinaabe-kwe from the Ottawa River Valley who was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario. She wrote the “Ally Bill of Responsibilities” and it acts as a guideline for those interested in becoming genuine allies. Dr. Gehl lists 16 “commandments” that one needs in the daring journey of becoming a true and genuine ally to indigenous peoples. For examples a responsible ally: