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Acknowledgements
Contributions and Contributors
Relational Honouring in an Era of Reconciliation
Image Credits
Preface
Introduction
Course Information
Responsible Citizenship
Chapter 1: Welcome and Traditional Opening of Circle
Chapter 2: What is Canada? ~ What is Turtle Island? ~ Who are the Mi’kmaq Peoples? ~ What are Teachings?
Chapter 3: Cultural Practices ~ Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Being, and Doing ~ Terms, Identity and Meaning
Chapter 4: History of Indigenous Peoples in Canada, United States, Mexico, and the Carribean
Chapter 5: Mi’kmaq Historians ~ Mi'kmaq Social Values and Economy ~ Treaties ~ Royal Proclamation Act of 1763 ~ Indian Act of 1876
Chapter 6: Colonialism ~ Colonization Practices of the Indian Act ~ Indian Residential Schools ~ Genocide
Chapter 7: Trauma and Intergenerational Trauma ~ Traditional Healing ~ Contemporary Health, Healing, and Wellness
Chapter 8: Land Dispossession ~ Systemic Racism ~ Right to Self-Determination
Chapter 9: Indigenous Resilience ~ Reclamation ~ Resistance
Chapter 10: Indigenous Peoples in the 21st Century
Chapter 11: Truth and Reconciliation ~ Calls to Action ~ Responsible Citizenship
Chapter 12: Honouring Msit No’kmaq ~ Wahkohtowin ~ All Our Relations and Closing of Circle
Western Door Reflection
Conclusion
Gratitude
Textbook (OER) Development - Student Feedback
About the Author
Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future Summary of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
IKE 1040 Indigenous Teachings of Turtle Island - Robertson Library (Master List)
Vowel, C. (2016). Indigenous writes: a guide to First Nations, Metis, & Inuit issues in Canada. Winnipeg, MB: Highwater Press.
Selected Readings from Whose Land is it Anyway? A Manual for Decolonization: Part I
Selected Readings from Whose Land is it Anyway? A Manual for Decolonization: Part II
Selected Readings from Whose Land is it Anyway? A Manual for Decolonization: Part III
References
Appendix
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