How do those values impact how you see yourself and live your life?
- tools for a good life (navigation)
- self-worth
- immersion/understanding/connection
- Balance
-fluency
-self-determination (foundation)

What barriers have you found in education (and outside it), which made it difficult to live within or maintain your cultural beliefs and practices?
- access to culture-> culture shock
- displacement
- freedom
- fear of failure
- fairness -> privledge
- urgency
- oppression
- Reverse racism
- family connection
- support
- resources
- original instructions
- distilation
What can institutions (educational and beyond) do to support Indigenous cultures and practices?
- representation
- flexability
- accountability
- friendship
- breakdown stigma
- sensitivity
- connecting services
- trying to not rely solely ARCs
- investment
- content
- desirable spaces
- regular degular support systems

- Language 
- Outdoors
- Ceremony
- Connections
- History
- Reciprocity 
- Kindness
- Respect
- Education and teachings
 

How do those values impact how you see yourself and live your life?

What barriers have you found in education (and outside it), which made it difficult to live within or maintain your cultural beliefs and practices? 

What can institutions (educational and beyond) do to support Indigenous cultures and practices?
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- Include Indigenous perspectives into policy making
- The true meaning behind what it means to be an ally
- Reconciliation for indigenous people is a sacrifice for them too, because we need to let go
- Recognizing that reconciliation is a gift to everybody, will benefit all of Canada to participate in this act
- Creating spaces for Indigenous Students to feel like its theirs
- Long term scholarships and bursaries

How do those values impact how you see yourself and live your life?
- Navigation
- Trying to stay on the right path (Mino Biimaadziwiin)
- Balance --> selfish w/ selflessness/Self-care
- The ability to thrive
- Belonging --> support, knowing who your people are
- Safety and acceptance
- Grief/sadness/oppression
- How you walk "walking the talk" (Integrity)

What barriers have you found in education (and outside it), which made it difficult to live within or maintain your cultural beliefs and practices? 
- Not being allowed to Smudge
- Stigma/Marginalized 
- Addiction
- Mental Health
- Intergenerational trauma
- Society
- Microaggression
- Lateral Violence
- Ethnostress
- Hierarchy 
- Walking in two worlds --> no more, "They want to be one person in a difficult world"
- Funding
- Access, more accessibility
- Fear of isolation
- Culture shock
What can institutions (educational and beyond) do to support Indigenous cultures and practices? 
- Rural community
- Community access
- Distant education --> alternative modalities
- Advocacy 
- Responsibility
- Positivity --> Inspiration
- Land-based/hands-on learning
- Knowledge and diverse learning strategies 
- Decolonial systems in the mainstream
- Representation throughout 
- Anti-exploitation 
- TRC-ing --> "94 points to win"
- Community selected leadership
- Accountability for Indigenous knowledge and education across all schools
- Elders --> Who is an elder?
- Responsibility
- Consent and consultation --> who is in position and why?
- Protocol for selection
- What do credentials mean --> HR Management
- Reforming educational policies
- Right to education - Community 
- Preparation 
- Art as a tool
- Create an environment that inspires Indigenous students to be Indigenous
- Getting together and providing ways to teach students/people who learn differently
- "Create the vessel and the spirit will come" - Jim Dumont

How do those values impact how you see yourself and live your life?
Safe Advocacy
- navigating colonial thinking
In harmony with the Great Law and ability to follow original instruction
Privilege and sharing Indigenous Knowledge

What barriers have you found in education (and outside it), which made it difficult to live within or maintain your cultural beliefs and practices? 
Shame and violence -Lateral violence
- within the system and at home
Broken communication
Misunderstood and unwillingness to understand
Lack of Compassion
Judgement
Disconnection
Institutional hypocrisy and racism  
Racism
Monitering
infrastructure
support
councilling
Access
 
What can institutions (educational and beyond) do to support Indigenous cultures and practices? 
Having Elder and youth speak
Honouring the Ancestors
Seven Generations teaching and understanding
you are the dream of your ancestors
origin
seed
Education systems that feel like home