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General => Member Introductions => Topic started by: ExcelGuy on July 06, 2018, 07:14:34 pm
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Hello everyone. I stumbled across this site while doing research for my Masters of Education. Last month I finished reading "Decolonizing Education: Nourishing the Learning Spirit" by Dr. Marie Battiste and since I'll be in the masters program for 2 years more of my research may be relating to Indigenous / First Nations / Native issues (I'm in Canada, and acknowledge that I am joining this board from land that was the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee, Anishnawbe, and Neutral peoples.
I better shut up now before I say something stupid which I may already have, but we start every class with the land acknowledgement I stated above, and it is becoming common in university and college classrooms, at least in Ontario.
Growing up in Northern Ontario, I can at least say "Migwetch" but probably not spell it right. Then again maybe I'll just stick with English and keep reading to learn more about the forum.
I also took some time to learn a bit of the Canadian Syllabics used as a written language for Inuktitut and Cree (and possibly Mohawk) and starting to get comfortable with the fact that it would actually be easier to write words in that character set :).
Cheers,
Rick