CICan 2018 Indigenous Education Symposium, Wendake, QC, October 15-16, 208 Grading on the double curve

1. GRADING ON THE
DOUBLE CURVE
NBCC’S WALKING TOGETHER INDIGENOUS SERVICES - FIRST STEPS

2. WABANAKI CONFEDERACY
Wolastoqiyik
Peskotomuhkatiyik
Mi’kmaq (L’nuk)
Penobscot
Abenaki
• People of the Beautiful, Bountiful River
• People of the Pollock
• Family/Friends/My Brothers (the People)
• Place where the rocks open out (of the Penobscot River)
• dawn land
People of the Dawn-
land
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3. WABANAKI WAMPUM BELTS
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4. z
Wabanaki Double Curve
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5. MI’KMAQ-WOLASTOQEY CENTRE:
• This represents and individual’s Earth Walk. The first curve on the
left represents life within our mother’s womb (our first home). After
birth, when our Earth Walk begins, we are gifted with life’s
challenges and symbolized by the rise in the centre of the motif.
When our Earth Walk ends, we are placed in the womb of our Earth
Mother in a fetal position to return to our spirit walk, which is
symbolized by the curve on the right of the motif.
8/29/2018Miramichi Fall Kick-Off
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6. z
Wabanaki Double Curve Wellness
Model?
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Past Future
Spirit World
Undersea/underworld?
Present
Mind Heart
Body
Spirit
Subconscious?/Trickster?

7. z
Caring for All Others before the self
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Balance

8. NOEL BEAR - HUNTER, TRAPPER, GUIDE,
AND BASKET-MAKER :
“[THE INDIAN] DID NOT . . . GO . . . THROUGH
THE WORLD TAKING WHAT BELONGED TO
OTHER MEN AND DYING BEFORE HIS RIGHT
TIME HAD COME; HE ONLY WISHED TO DIE
QUIETLY WHERE HE WAS AND LIVE WHERE
FATHERS LIVED AND AS THEY DID.” (1831)
IN 1907 NOEL DIED ALONE IN THE WOODS,
POSSIBLY AS OLD AS 111, AND WAS BURIED
AT TOBIQUE.
Andrea Bear Nicholas,
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/bear_noel_13E.html

9. ABOUT NBCC
NBCC
• Crown corporation
• Board governed
• 6 campuses
• 800+ employees
• 90+ programs
• Responsiveness programs
• 2000 students
• ~ 150 self identified Indigenous
students
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10. NB INDIGENOUS POPULATION (4%)
• compared with 4.9% of Canadian
population
• Metis doubled in 10 years (2006-
2016)
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NB 730,710
Non-Ind 701,325
FN 17,575
Metis 10,200
Inuit 385
Other 1,225

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12. INDIGENOUS YOUTH (AGE 15-24) IN NB = 5% OF
THE YOUTH POPULATION
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34 43 18 5
2011
26 41 28 2
2016 Age 15-24 by Location (%)
On Reserve Off Reserve FN Off Reserve Metis Off Reserve Other
Source: 2011 & 2016 Census

13. INDIGENOUS PSE ACHIEVEMENT % (2011 & 2016)
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Total Trades&College University
38
28
10
51
37
14
Can2016
38
Can2016
27
Can2016
10
NB 2016
52
NB 2016
40
NB 2016
12
Can 2011
NB 2011
Source: Census 2011 & 2016

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Actual
Enrolmen
t, 138
Projected
Enrolmen
t, 188
Projected
Seats,
214
NBCC 2016 Indigenous Enrolment, Actual
and Projected
Source: NBCC SIMS & Website Dashboard
2013
164
2014
177
2015
136
2016
138
2017
136
2018
142
NBCC Indigenous Student Enrolment
Source: NBCC SIMS

15. NBCC INDIGENOUS
GRADUATION RATE
- Retention is an issue
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2015
46%
2016
45%
2017
42%
2018
33%
Source: NBCC SIMS
Based on Fall Term Enrolment (Moncton
excluded)

16. INDIGENOUS STUDENT ADVISORS
(2013)
• Navigation
• Liaison
• Support
• Cultural and Ceremonial Events
• At each campus
• Dedicated spaces
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17. INDIGENOUS LEARNING &
ENGAGEMENT
Signed IEP – 2015
Systematic Approach - April 2018
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18. STRATEGIC INITIATIVE
- BASED ON IEP FROM 2015
Learning
Year 1
Engagement
Year 2
Systemic
Changes
Ongoing
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20. CULTURE AND CLIMATE
• Indigenous Inclusion new to the
province – how to engage; still at why
• Many staff are interested but are fearful
of being disrespectful
• Some torn between wanting to do the
right thing and fear of what “land
claims” mean
• Some racism – genteel and otherwise
• Some non-Indigenous staff – negative
interactions with Indigenous staff
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21. CULTURE AND CLIMATE
• 8:30-4:30
• Extracurricular Time: lunch
hour
• No Indigenous Advisory
• No consistent knowledge
keeper involvement at
governance level
• No consistent community
involvement (invitations to
chiefs)
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22. INDIGENOUS LEARNING &
ENGAGEMENT
Learning
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A 1750 account of Swedish botanist Peter Kalm, or the
18th-century letters of the Abbé Pierre Antoine Simon
Maillard, may be the basis for this illustration. The artist
shows a Mi’kmaq man with light hair, European features,
and fictionalized accoutrements. From an engraving
published in an encyclopedia by J. Grasset St. Saveur,
1796.

24. LEARNING – STRATEGIC INITIATIVE
• Learning outcomes and activities for
BoG, Senior Leadership, Management
Teams, Staff, Students
• Learning Outcome integration
• Full Curriculum Review
• Staff survey – pre and post (2 year)
• Staff performance appraisal measure
• Environmental Scan
• Land Acknowledgement Protocol
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25. WELCOME CEREMONY: GREETING DANCE AT SIPAYIK INDIAN DAYS 2005
(SPINNEY)
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26. ACTIVITIES - DOUBLE CURVE: PAST, PRESENT,
FUTURE
• Developing presentations
• Environmental Scan (40 colleges)
• Demographic Scan of NB
• Review of NBCC Programs
• Engagement with Communities
• Launch
• Various campaigns
• Land Acknowledgement
• Online courses
• Research
• Ethics Statement
• Collaboration teams
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27. COLLABORATION SUBCOMMITTEES (33)
• Communications
• Learning Outcomes and Curriculum
Review
• Confederates
• Learning Events
• Community Engagement
• Direction/Accountability?
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28. CAMPAIGNS – (4 SEASONS; 4 DIMENSIONS)
• Learning series
• Talks - History – starting from
treaties
• Land acknowledgement
• Residential Schools – Orange Shirt
Day activity & Blankets
• Bear Talks – speaker series
• “Did you Know…”
• NFB Film Club
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30. ENGAGMENT
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31. TREATIES
PITT RIVERS MUSEUM, OXFORD, 1887 – (2007) – WILLIAM JOHNSON BELT
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32. PESKOTOMUHKATI – REAFFIRMATION
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33. ALL WE NEEDED TO DO IN THOSE TIMES WAS
TO LEAVE OUR WIGWAMS, SOMETIMES WITH
OUR ARROWS AND SPEARS, AND SOMETIMES
WITHOUT, AND AT A VERY SHORT DISTANCE
FROM OUR VILLAGE WE WOULD FIND ALL WE
NEEDED.
ARGIMAUT, 1758 – MI’KMAQ “SHAMAN
recorded by Abbe Malliard in his Account oft he Customs and Manners of the
Mickmakis and Maricheets Savage Nations Now Dependent on the Government of
Cape-Breton (1758) – “Argimaut”
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34. ENGAGEMENT – STRATEGIC INITIATIVE
• Seek out Indigenous experts in
education
• Conduct six sharing circles
• Identify Opportunities for Community
Engagement
• UNB & STU Indigenous Educators
and elders
• Community visits
• Knowledge Keepers
• Funding for Advisory
• Funding for Cultural Immersion
sessions
• Include off-reserve
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35. NBCC GOALS?
• Indigenization is the act of making
something more native; transformation
of some service, idea, etc. to suit a local
culture, especially through the use of
more indigenous people in
administration, employment, etc.
…Wikipedia
• Okanagan College Indigenization is
about connecting with and learning
from Indigenous peoples and their
respective knowledge ways.
• Walking Together
• Two Eyed Seeing
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36. METHOD - WALKING TOGETHER
• Double Curve
• Two Eyed Seeing – story about coyote
• Marshall
• Process is additive/integrative rather than adjunctive
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Political
PhilosophicalMoral
Economic
• Respecting Relationships (2018)
• UNDRIP (2015)
• IEP (2015)
• TRC (2016)
• Residential School Settlement
(2009)
• Gathering Strength (1998)
• RCAP (1996)
• White Paper (1969)
Inform the context:

38. “… PEDAGOGY WHICH MUST BE
FORGED WITH, NOT FOR, THE
OPPRESSED (WHETHER
INDIVIDUALS OR PEOPLES) IN THE
INCESSANT STRUGGLE TO
REGAIN … HUMANITY”
Freire, P. (2018). Pedagogy of the oppressed.
Bloomsbury Publishing USA. (1968)
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What’s wrong with this picture?

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41. RESPECTFUL RELATIONSHIPS
• Reflection
• Relevance
• Reciprocity
• Responsibility
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42. INDEPENDENCE VS INTERDEPENDENCE
• High and Low Efficacy Personalities
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43. INDIGENOUS WORLD VIEW AND PEDAGOGY -
EXERCISE
TABULA RASA
• Goals of Education
FULLY FORMED
• Goals of Education
• Balance of teacher and learner
• (Balancing exercise?)
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44. A LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT
IS NOT SOMETHING YOU
“JUST DO” BEFORE AN EVENT.
(LAURIER STUDENTS PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP WEBPAGE HTTP://WWW.LSPIRG.ORG/KNOWTHELAND/)
“Rather it is a reflection process in which you build mindfulness and intention
walking into whatever gathering you are having. It should be rooted in the … land
you … stand on and should guide how you move forward in both conversations and
actions. “
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Joan Dana
Motahkmikuk
Peskotomuhkatiyi
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46. LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Why?
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47. I would call myself a refugee in this
country… Native culture is as
fundamentally different from Western
culture as two societies could possibly be.
The meaning of reconciliation: 'We're not anywhere near that word called forward. We're not
even on the first syllable‘ Joane Laucius, Ottawa Citizen, July 1, 2017
Philip Edwards
Anishnaabe
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