Week Eleven: Oppressive Education

My experience with education was positive, however after I begun reflection, I realized that oftentimes it was oppressive towards Aboriginal peoples. I remember being taught about Aboriginal peoples culture, and students would often roll their eyes when that topic came up. Not because the students were trying to be oppressive or racist, but rather because we we felt as though there was no reason to be learning the content. I now of course realize that we had no knowledge about treaty education, however we were never taught the importance of treaty education. I truly wish that somebody could have sat our class down and told us why treaty education is important, the effects of colonization, and attempted to decolonize our ways of thinking. I feel that in this sense I was robbed of a full education, I feel lucky that I was able to take Indigenous studies in university, as well as classes such as these that teach us about the importance to hopefully change the future of education.

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