Category Archives: First Nations’ Stories

Jo-ann Archibald to lead 601 seminar on TRC’s Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future

For Wednesday’s EDCP 601 meeting (25 November), Associate Dean for Indigenous Education, Jo-ann Archibald, will join us to lead a seminar on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada‘s summary Report, Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future.

How do we respond to the Call to Action for Education for Reconciliation? The question for us is then how do we ethically, meaningfully and thoughtfully address this Call? The truths of Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future are extremely difficult and the Call extremely important.

Readings for the Seminar

  1. Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. (2015). Honouring the truth, reconciling for the future: Summary of the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. Ottawa, CA: Author.
  2. Democracy Now! (2015, June 30). “Cultural genocide:” Landmark report decries Canada’s forced schooling of indigenous children [Interview transcript]. Democracy Now!
  3. Fontaine v. Canada (Attorney General). (2014, January 14) Ontario Superior Court of Justice, 283.
  4. Marker, M. (2016). Borders and the borderless Coast Salish: Decolonising historiographies of Indigenous schooling. History of Education, 45, 1-23.

Graduate symposium on The Role of Narrative in Transformative Education

Jennifer Anaquod, Naomi Kawamura & Saeed Nazari organized and presented in an excellent symposium on The Role of Narrative in Transformative Education. We are all grateful and honoured to have been welcomed to the Longhouse. Special thanks to Jennifer for sharing the story of the Longhouse and arranging with the First Nations House of Learning to host the symposium.

We also extend a kind thank you to Kenthen Thomas who energized and inspired us with the story of how “Bear and Coyote make Day and Night.”