In the 1980s she became an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia where she was appointed Director of the Native Teacher Education Program, founded the Ts" Kel Graduate Program, and was a driving force behind the creation of the First Nations House of Learning…
Decolonizing and indigenizing education in Canada
"Providing practical and theoretical perspectives, this edited collection seeks to advance critical scholarship on several issues related to interrogating the complexities around decolonization and indigenization of postsecondary institutions. The book considers the place of Ind…
"It can start with a knock on the door one morning. It is the local Indian agent, or the parish priest, or, perhaps, a Mounted Police officer ... The officials have arrived and the children must go." So began the school experience of many Indigenous children in Canada for more t…
"It can start with a knock on the door one morning. It is the local Indian agent, or the parish priest, or, perhaps, a Mounted Police officer ... The officials have arrived and the children must go." So began the school experience of many Indigenous children in Canada for more t…
"It can start with a knock on the door one morning. It is the local Indian agent, or the parish priest, or, perhaps, a Mounted Police officer ... The officials have arrived and the children must go." So began the school experience of many Indigenous children in Canada for more t…
Aboriginal people in Canada and elsewhere have unquenchable hope in the promise of education. This collection of papers grew out of selected research reports and round table papers commissioned by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.
Aboriginal people in Canada and elsewhere have unquenchable hope in the promise of education. This collection of papers grew out of selected research reports and round table papers commissioned by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.
Aboriginal people in Canada and elsewhere have unquenchable hope in the promise of education. This collection of papers grew out of selected research reports and round table papers commissioned by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.
"With the growing strength of minority voices in recent decades has come much impassioned discussion of residential schools, the institutions where attendance by Native children was compulsory as recently as the 1960s. Former students have come forward in increasing numbers to d…