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Module 4 Post 1: Reboot at First Nations University

If you want to earn a university degree from a Canadian institution that integrates First Nations culture and ways of knowing into every class, rather than cordoning it off into one or two departments, First Nations University of Canada isn’t just your best option — it’s your only one.

Located on three campuses in Regina, Saskatoon, and Prince Albert and operating on a smaller scale in several First Nations communities across Saskatchewan, First Nations University (FNUC) offers many of the courses you’d find at any comprehensive university: social work, business, fine arts, education, and of course, indigenous studies. But rather than tacking on some facts about first peoples, its courses are designed from the ground up for indigenous ways of knowing and learning.

“We focus on incorporating indigenous languages, cultures, history and worldview into our curriculum, as well as into the day to day activities at our university,” FNUC’s acting president, Juliano Tupone, told The Tyee Solutions Society

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http://www.thetyee.ca/News/2013/11/21/First-Nations-University/