March 10 Treaty Education for all

Regardless of Indigenous student enrollment, First Nations, Metis, and Inuit curricula and perspectives should be provided in all schools. Teachers have a significant influence on their students’ worldviews. Racism and colonialism’s underlying curriculum will only exist if Indigenous cultures, worldviews, and teachings are not incorporated in the classroom (Kruger, 2017). Students learn to listen and care when they are “placed into teaching Indigenous history, cultural activities, and relationship building even if there is a little Indigenous population” (Kruger 2017). Once relationships are created, Canadians are informed, and allyship is valued, the “distance between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples” may be erased (Donald, 2010).

Because we are all Treaty people, Treaty land and Treaty links should be included in the Saskatchewan curriculum. The Treaty land is “what sustains us all: it is the true curriculum, the one that drives us to renew our relationships with one another, to renew our commitment to what we have in common, to our stake in the planet and its life, on which our own relies” (Chambers, 2012). As a result, the curriculum should teach students about the “benefits and responsibility that come with sharing this land” (Kruger, 2017). Because we are all Treaty people, the curriculum should stress understanding several histories, engaging various cultures, and developing strong bonds with the people of the land in order to benefit everyone (OTC, n.d.).