Braided learning : illuminating Indigenous presence through art and story / Susan D. Dion.

Braided learning : illuminating Indigenous presence through art and story / Susan D. Dion.

By
Dion, Susan D., 1959-

Publication Date
2022

Publication Information
Vancouver : Purich Books,

Physical Description
xi, 275 p. : ill.

Subject Term
Indigenous peoples -- Study and teaching.
 
Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- History.
 
Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Ethnic identity.
 
Multicultural education -- Canada.
 
Storytelling -- Canada.
 
Indigenous art -- Canada.

Geographic Term
Canada -- History -- Study and teaching.
 
Canada -- Race relations -- History.
 
Canada -- Ethnic relations -- History.

Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Indigenous activism have made many Canadians uncomfortably aware of how little they know about First Nations, Metis, and Inuit peoples. In Braided Learning, Lenape-Potawatomi scholar and educator Susan Dion shares her approach to learning and teaching about Indigenous histories and perspectives. Metis leader Louis Riel illuminated the connection between creativity and identity in his declaration, "My people will sleep for a hundred years, but when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirits back." Using the power of stories and artwork, Dion offers respectful ways to address challenging topics including treaties, the Indian Act, the Sixties Scoop, land claims, resurgence, the drive for self-determination, and government policies that undermine language, culture, and traditional knowledge systems.

Language
English

ISBN
9780774880794


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Corner Brook (WCB)Adult NFic IndigenousAdult Non-Fiction Indigenous971.00497 D62Checked In
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