{"id":776,"date":"2013-07-18T15:10:31","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T22:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/?p=776"},"modified":"2013-07-18T15:10:31","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T22:10:31","slug":"enid-lee-and-first-nations-youth-in-winnipeg-manitoba-idlenomore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ices\/2013\/07\/18\/enid-lee-and-first-nations-youth-in-winnipeg-manitoba-idlenomore\/","title":{"rendered":"Enid Lee and First Nations Youth in Winnipeg, Manitoba #IdleNoMore"},"content":{"rendered":"

Teaching for Change<\/em><\/a>, Shelly Wen– \u00a0Teaching for Change<\/em> adviser\u00a0Enid Lee<\/a>\u00a0described her recent experience in an elementary school classroom with Cree and Ojibwe First Nations students in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She was asked to address controversial issues, and selected the contemporary Canadian-based grassroots movement\u00a0Idle No More<\/a>\u00a0that \u201ccalls on all people to join in a revolution which honors and fulfills Indigenous sovereignty which protects the land and water.\u201d \u00a0Founded in 2012, Idle No More directly responds to centuries of treaty violations and has spread from Canada to California, Wisconsin, Tennessee, and beyond.<\/p>\n

Enid soon realized that the students \u201chad no idea what I was talking about. I learned a lot from their response. When I asked them what Idle No More meant, they asked me if I meant American Idol\u2026 I had to stop and think about it, the word \u2018Idle,\u2019 is not used if you\u2019re 12 years old\u2026 So we can name things, we can do things, and it can completely go over the heads of young people.\u201d<\/p>\n

From this conversation with the students, Lee \u201clearned how language needs to be broken down and broken up, and also how creating audiences for students is important.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lee left them with an assignment to be \u201cmembers of a worldwide research team\u201d on Idle No More. When she came back in two weeks, the students had taken the task to heart. Not only did they conduct interviews with elders, but they also found ways to share what they learned through power point presentations. While Lee introduced Idle No More to the students, they became her teachers about the movement when she returned.<\/p>\n

Lee concludes, \u201cIt\u2019s those daily surprises that hit me [and remind me]\u00a0of the potential that we have in our work [to] broaden communities. The hope that I have for young people is just unlimited.\u201d<\/p>\n

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