During my practicum, I took students out to the Camosun Bog on multiple occasions. One time, I had them pick any plant and write a few things about their plant. I took pictures of them with their plant, and we made posters about these plants. Most were local: salmonberries, huckleberries, …
In my last post I talked about Calls to Action and the education reforms needed to acknowledge and reconcile the dark history that lives on Canada’s land. Within the education system, settler narratives and identities are constantly being reproduced (Calderon, 2014). As I was sitting at the bottom of a …
In our inquiry, we have taken note that many Indigenous stories have been erased. In a previous note, I was wondering how many stories there are today about hardships faced by Indigenous people that are not widely available to the public, or are just not sought out for by others. …
While stuck at home with COVID, I read the book Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga. It speaks about the deaths of seven Indigenous students attending school in Thunder Bay. Police did not take helping Indigenous people, their missing reports or investigations seriously, and as a result, First Nations youth …
I observed blueberries; I have seen them on mountain hikes before. I know that they are native to the west coast. I wonder how many blueberry bushes there were on the land before colonization compared to now. I wonder how we can use the blueberry bushes to teach students about …
