I have never heard about residential schools until I entered post-secondary. It was in September of 2016 when my Early Childhood Education class at Saskatchewan Polytechnic took part in an orange shirt day event to honour those who were victims…

Racism can be a difficult subject to discuss, but it is an important one. As educators, we have an important and powerful role in helping shape the minds of the future generations. When it comes to educating individuals on racism,…

When I was a student at the University of Saskatchewan, I remember seeing red dresses hung up around campus. Being the young and naïve 17 year-old I was, I did not take the time to stop and learn what these…

“I would like to begin by acknowledging that the land on which we gather is Treaty 6 territory, the traditional territory of Cree Peoples, and on the homeland of the Métis Nation.” A memorized script, an empty acknowledgement that I’ve heard…

I believe I was in my senior year of high school when I first heard the term treaty, but it wasn’t until my first year at the University of Regina that I learned what the term treaty meant. Through my…

In this blog post, we were asked to do an environmental scan of the identities of the Indigenous peoples’ from the area we grew up in in Canada.  We were also asked to diagram the characteristics and juxtapose them to…

Miskâsowin – Finding one’s sense of origin and belonging, finding one’s self, or finding one’s center. To me, the process of Miskâsowin means figuring out who you are, where you come from, where your ancestors come from, or even where you…