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    The student reflects on how education can improve relationships between indigenous and non-indigenous Canadians by focusing on connectivity and understanding differences. The journal entry discusses how adding indigenous perspectives to curriculum can help students see people's shared connections to land and each other. It also explains the need to address stereotypes by learning about the diversity of indigenous groups and issues facing specific communities like the Blackfoot. The student believes education is key to reconciliation and improving relationships through greater knowledge.

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    The student reflects on how education can improve relationships between indigenous and non-indigenous Canadians by focusing on connectivity and understanding differences. The journal entry discusses how adding indigenous perspectives to curriculum can help students see people's shared connections to land and each other. It also explains the need to address stereotypes by learning about the diversity of indigenous groups and issues facing specific communities like the Blackfoot. The student believes education is key to reconciliation and improving relationships through greater knowledge.

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    The student reflects on how education can improve relationships between indigenous and non-indigenous Canadians by focusing on connectivity and understanding differences. The journal entry discusses how adding indigenous perspectives to curriculum can help students see people's shared connections to land and each other. It also explains the need to address stereotypes by learning about the diversity of indigenous groups and issues facing specific communities like the Blackfoot. The student believes education is key to reconciliation and improving relationships through greater knowledge.

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    Reflective Journal 1

    For this journal entry I would like to focus on the role of the public school education

    system in improving relationships between indigenous peoples and all other Canadians. A

    central tenet of “native science” (Belanger, 2014) is relationship, which is defined as “a product

    of everything mixing together in a constantly changing universe” (Belanger, 2014). I think that

    with this philosophy in mind, the changes that are going to be made to the curriculum in Alberta

    make so much more sense to me. We are all connected to each other, to the land, to the learning

    and I believe that adding an underlying message of true Canadian (or Canadian as we understand

    it to be, the land our country is on used to have many names) heritage to the education system

    will help students to see the connectivity present in all aspects of life.

    As an aspiring teacher, I feel as though it is the duty of education clear up the

    misconceptions and stereotypes placed on the indigenous population and for future generations

    to understand where our country has failed in the past. The Alberta Teachers’ Association has

    released a resource for teachers called Education Is Our Buffalo, and it has really taught me how

    little I really know or understand about the issues facing indigenous people today. In the

    resource, there is a section called “Misconceptions About Aboriginal People” (Education Is Our

    Buffalo, 2016) and there are many but they all shared a similar theme in that the diversity of First

    Nations, Métis, and Inuit are all diminished through assumptions made about all of the

    indigenous population. In reality, the indigenous population is made up of individuals with many

    different languages and upbringings. They cannot be lumped into one category of people all

    facing the same issues, just as all Canadians can’t be. I think this is why I see my mentors and

    peers in the education community struggling to teach lessons that address the diversity amongst

    Canada’s indigenous population. That is why I believe that it is important for each of us to learn

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    about the places we live individually, and I was really hoping that this class could teach me that.

    As I live in Calgary and Lethbridge, it is important to me that I learn about Blackfoot ways of

    life and the issues the Blackfoot community is presented with today. I want to have this

    knowledge, so I can pass it on in the classroom.

    The Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established in 2007 and is working

    towards “increasing and strengthening knowledge among all Albertans of the governance,

    history, treaty and Aboriginal rights, lands, culture and languages” (Education Is Our Buffalo,

    2016). I see education as an essential step in the reconciliation process and learning is the only

    way to improve the relationships with and understanding of those around us. With these

    educational goals in place for Alberta, I really think that I can learn to reverse the stereotypes

    present in my own mind and teach with a more accurate representation of Canadian history and

    indigenous peoples than what was taught to me. It is so important that classrooms make a

    change, because then the attitudes, relationships, and understanding of future Canadians can

    change as well.

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    References

    Belanger, Y. (2014). Ways of Knowing: An Introduction to Native Studies in Canada. 2nd

    ed. Toronto: Nelson Education Ltd., p.13.

    Education Is Our Buffalo: A Teachers' Resource for First Nations, Métis and Inuit

    Education in Alberta. (2016). 4th ed. Edmonton: The Alberta Teachers' Association, pp.55-57.

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