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Decolonization, Beyond Readings

  By: kdesjarl on Aug. 22, 2020, 7:11 a.m.

I've been wrestling with actively decolonizing my courses over the last couple of years, and recognize that a lot 'standard' practices/policies in my syllabi were colonizing practices. They were punitive simply to be punitive, and while the logic of…

Re: Indigenous Studies -- Links to Resources

  By: kdesjarl on Aug. 22, 2020, 7:06 a.m.

My colleague from Carelton, Dr. Zoe Todd, a Metis anthropologist from the Edmonton region, is going to be putting her now-online course materials for free on her website. The course is INDG 2015: Ecological Ways of Knowing the site is: https://fishp…

Indigenization

  By: kdesjarl on Aug. 19, 2020, 3:35 p.m.

Hi Everyone,

I know that Indigenization has gotten some momentum as a movement throughout schools (both K-12 and postsecondary), and I think that's great, however, I don't think it goes far enough. Philosophically, from my perspective, it allows so…