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Why has this taken so long

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humility now

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humility

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"If not here, where?"  Jo Chrona

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benefits all students

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We have an audience and we should utilize  it!

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to teach our students what resiliency looks like

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We need to make connections with peoples cultures and learn from cultural awareness

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UNDRIP NOW

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There is no light without understanding the darkness

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The healing component is important is important for  all students.  Understanding our own history allows us to view another's experience  and  empathize and grow.

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every day that passes we lose potential for rebuilding the culture and blending the practices with our teaching. We should move away from lecture style teaching in to teaching through doing.

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We can learn from the resiliency of Indigenous people

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teach canada's true history to not repeat history

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if we're not "doing" it we're really only teaching history

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It is ethically, economically and culturally "smart" to lift everyone up.  It benefits EVERYONE.  Equality and equity must coexist.

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Conceptualizing a Post-industrial education and world

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All kids benefit from Indigenous Education

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To expand our worldview

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AS a woman I grew up  being told there was all kinds of things I couldn't do.  That same oppression  was experienced by indigenous people.

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We owe this to Indigenous People

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"Education got us into this mess, Education will get us out"

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knowing the true history of Canada/ owning what happened

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it is important for our students to know Canada's historical treatment of Indigenous peoples

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Not about the child fitting in the system it is about the system changing to work for the child

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expand our knowledge base  and see other world experiences

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Re-prioritizing Value in Education/LIfe

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To teach settler canadians about their history

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You can't have critical thinking without critique.

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Identity is critical for students to connect/ tie to community

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Indigenous grad rates are low

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levelling the playing field.  We are all get up when everyone benefits. there  is  a big blank spot in our undertanding of the  world and of Canada and this "blank space" is not empty!  Indigenous education is  in part about hearing the voices and experiences of that "blank" space.

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to assit healing in the healing of the education system

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It's not too late to revive the knowledge and language

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focuses on teaching of whole child

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students who learn about indigenous topics are more likely to be advocates for indigenous education in the future

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TRC recommendations

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Important to know what was happening on the land before settlers arrived

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We all need to live in balance.

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Why wasn't this done so long ago???

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We are legally on Indigenous land.

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Restoring Balance

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for the historical truth to be upheld.

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Unique & special stories/ knowledge to preserve in BC.

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the current system is not working. the system is failing.

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to foster a world view shift

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why not? It's time

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Active anti-racism work

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benefits all students

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the moral imperative

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Because Western perspectives and voices are not the only stories/ideas that matter