Feb 10- Citizenship video and podcast

What’s your understanding of citizenship? How can we relate Treaty Education to citizenship?

First, everyone has a different understanding of what the word citizenship means to them, like the conversations we have and participate in class discussions. Citizenship means that we are all part of a political process and are supposed to participate within it.  This means we have certain rights and freedoms that come with civic and social duties expected from each member of society. Which also comes with being a member of your community, like having a job, paying bills/taxes, donating clothes/ giving back, and so on. It comes down to forming a society and communities you want to live in. But citizenship here in Regina is entirely different from citizenship in other parts of the world.

How can we relate treaty education to citizenship?

As educators, we are responsible for ensuring that Treaty Education is included in our curricula to the greatest extent feasible so that we can break free of an educational system profoundly ingrained in colonialism. To make place for further instruction and acceptance, we need to incorporate more components of Treaty Education into the curriculum. This will get future generations involved in the significance of Indigenous languages and culture. The expectation is that this will ensure that Indigenous ways of thinking and practices will continue well into the foreseeable future. As those who aspire to become teachers, we must be able to uproot the old colonized ways within our curriculum.