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Yellowhead is excited to announce the launch of The Treaty Map! Covering every Canadian treaty from 1763 to the present, The Treaty Map challenges the commonly held view of treaties as land surrenders and offers a comprehensive learning & teaching tool: https://t.co/eImjbdcoSB
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The Decibel The Chiefs voted for good governance, to protect generations to come from Canada’s discrimination and to ensure all First Nations children get the supports they need. Listen to learn more
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Listen to undefined from The Decibel wherever you get your podcasts!
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Combatting deficit thinking doesn’t mean ignoring issues, latest on my blog. https://t.co/CSX8SNiURd
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30 years into the Nunavut Agreement, are we still focused on the vision? https://t.co/QcGsQTGonL
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Our children are still not able to be Inuit in our schools. There are studies that link acculturation and violence in adolescents including self harm. Look at that instead! Instead of shaming them about reacting to a system that is violent towards them!
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As my wise friend says "Schools are often so unwilling to acknowledge ableism, racism, abuse of power and micro aggression as violence because they perpetuate it". When are we going to realize linguicide and acculturation strip our children of identity and sense of being.
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Without asking why children and youth are acting out. Children and youth who act out probably experience sense of displacement, depression, learning disorders or have language problems. These are symptoms and products of systems destroying our children.
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🧵I see these statistics published every year and wonder what for? To show the world how violent our children are, as if they are pre-disposed to being violent? "Look Nunavut has the most violent schools. Isn't it fucked up?!". https://t.co/gbHCxmmFqg
cbc.ca
Nunavut's teachers union says 90 per cent of its members witnessed some form of violence in the territory's schools this year, while more than 83 per cent experienced it first hand.
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Decolonizing doesn't mean returning to the old ways. It means reconnecting to the wisdom of our ancestors and bringing it forward with us.
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This argument was started by an Inuk (singular of Inuit) leader Siila Watt-Cloutier in a case linking climate change and human rights two decades in the Inter-American court of human rights. Now it's finally being recognized. https://t.co/oq9dnSI7lu
ctvnews.ca
Europe's highest human rights court ruled Tuesday that its member nations have an obligation to protect their citizens from the ill effects of climate change, but still threw out a high-profile case...
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My write up about Nunavut at 25. Focused on Education. Warning it's a long read. https://t.co/yeOdUEbfRk
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Racism in Iqaluit is not a new phenomenon. However, complicated social dynamics are shifting as the workforce is increasingly racialized. New tensions are emerging - but there is also an opportunity for new forms of solidarity, too. Read here: https://t.co/AC2moKt7V5
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