Truth and Decolonization

Public attention on the systemic oppression of Indigenous people in Canadian Residential Schools raised by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) marks a possible turning point for Canada to enter a respectful relationship with First Nations. Calls for widespread education initiatives that promote Indigenous perspectives indicate a path to reconciliation. However, access to this path is obstructed by two barriers: 1) recurring colonial approaches to enacting Indigenous education policies; and 2) teachers’ bewilderment upon facing such a steep learning curve. In an attempt to overcome these barriers, I designed a workshop to assist educators and I approached teachers to engage on a grassroots level. The workshop developed from a combination of critical policy analysis and autoethnography to provide an accessible overview of Canada’s legacy of colonialism. Delivery of the workshop revealed participants’ readiness to learn about colonization in Canada, while exposing the need for capacity building within the Ontario public education system for Indigenous leadership to direct TRC initiatives

Decolonization · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Education Systems and Policy · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology

• Mapping Approaches to Decolonizing and Indigenizing the Curriculum at Canadian Universities

  Open Access•Candace Brunette-Debassige, Pauline Wakeham et al.•International Indigenous Policy…•2022

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• Students’ knowledge and perceptions of Indigenous peoples and cultures

  David D Varis, Rahula Samaranayake et al.•Diaspora Indigenous and Minority…•2026

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• Framing Constructivism in Practice as the Negotiation of Dilemmas

  Open Access•Mark Windschitl•Review of Educational Research•2002

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• Shaping Teacher Sensemaking

  Open Access•Cynthia E Coburn•Educational Policy•2005

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• Policy Implementation and Cognition

  Open Access•James P Spillane, Brian J Reiser et al.•Review of Educational Research•2002

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• External reform initiatives and teachers' efforts to reconstruct their practice

  Open Access•James P Spillane•Journal of Curriculum Studies•1999

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• Collective Sensemaking about Reading

  Open Access•Cynthia E Coburn•Educational Evaluation and Policy…•2001

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• Red Skin, White Masks

  Glen Sean Coulthard, Taiaiake Alfred•Red Skin, White Masks•2014

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• The Treaties of Canada with the Indians of Manitoba and the North-West Territories

  Open Access•Alexander Morris•Treaties of Canada with the…•2014

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• A National Crime

  John S Milloy•National Crime•1999

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• The Jesuit Relations

  John Frederick Schwaller•Sixteenth Century Journal•2001

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• Native American men-women, lesbians, two-spirits

  Sabine Lang•Journal of Lesbian Studies•2016

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• My Spirit in My Heart”

  Karina L Walters, Teresa Evans‐campbell et al.•Journal of Lesbian Studies•2006

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• Native American Two-Spirit Men

  Terry Tafoya, Douglas Wirth•Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social…•1996

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• Discovery and Exploration of the Mississippi Valley

  Robert M Brown, John Gilmary Shea et al.•Bulletin of the American…•1913

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• Braiding Histories

  Susan D Dion•Braiding Histories•2009

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• Toward a Tribal Critical Race Theory in Education

  Open Access•Bryan Mckinley Jones Brayboy•The Urban Review•2005

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• Where you stand depends on where you sit

  Open Access•Meg Maguire, Alice Braun et al.•Discourse Studies in the Cultural…•2015

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• Teaching Each Other

  Linda M Goulet, Keith N Goulet•Teaching Each Other•2014

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