Throughout my education, I was fortunate to have unique teachers for my English and history classes. The earliest memory I have about learning about Indigenous history and Canada’s racism, was in sixth grade. This teacher is Métis and was very honest with his own upbringing as well as the history of Canada’s Indigenous populations. I believe that his compassion for his heritage helped shape my interest and passion for pursuing further knowledge on the injustices done to the First Peoples of Canada and the beginning of decolonizing the views I had grown up with. Throughout the rest of my school career, I would take Indigenous based classes and do research on my own time through documentaries, readings, and listening to Indigenous stories. When it came to my first year of university, I was actually taken aback by how little everyone knew about these topics because it was so easily accessible through my high school, community, and the internet. It is not the students' fault, but the first exposure to the horrors of residential schools, colonization, and forced assimilation should not happen at a university level - it should be something taught in years previous.