for this week’s articles to read we were asked to read “We are all Treaty People: The Contemporary Countenances of Canadian Curriculum Studies” and watch three different videos on the process of treaty education. One of the main things that I gained from all of the videos and articles is that treaty education is important everywhere. In places where the First Nations, Metis, or Inuit people populations are low are where treaty education needs to be taught the most. I had spent my whole life in a small southern Saskatchewan town where we didn’t have a large population of First Nations, Metis, or Inuit people so treaty education is not something I have experienced a lot. Having said that, learning about treaty education is a completely new thing for me because I was never exposed to much of it when I was going through school. Although I never got a great understanding of treaty education, I must do my part as an educator to teach treaty education to the next generation.
The phrase “we are all treaty people” is a phrase that I have heard more over the last two years of university. treaty education is such an important factor of school life and should be taught from a young age to the students. the treaty-making process was important to the early 1900s and has been affecting people ever since the implementation of the treaties. one phrase that I have always loved was “we use history as a way of learning from our mistakes and making sure they don’t happen again”. I wanted to add that phrase because I think it is important for people to learn about the terrible things that First Nations, Metis, or Inuit people populations had to endure. As an educator, I must use my teaching ability to show students and people the importance of treaty education as that is history and a large part of Canadian history.