ECS 210- Kyla Hambly

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This week we read an article which was written by Jean P. Restoule, Sheila Gruner, and Edmund Metatawabin titled “Learning from Place: A Return to Traditional Mushkegowuk Ways of Knowing” speaks of the processes decolonization and re-inhabitation, especially in the context of land.  How do people live on land? How did people ever figure out to live on the land for example of Saskatchewan? Beats me, its so cold out there! But people did, but then colonizers took a lot of that knowledge away from the people and so now how did they get back to it and re-inhabitate what was their land and way of life? One way discussed in this article is to bring people together “bringing generations of community members together on the land led to the  reclamation of culture  and Indigenous knowledge and built greater community resistance to external forms of  economic exploitation  and development” (68) By standing together they become a larger body and an empowered body. After generations of b

October 7/9 Blog Post Cynthia Chambers’ article: “We are all Treaty People” Dwayne Donald’s lecture: “On What Terms Can we Speak?” Michael Cappello’s video featuring Claire Kreuger: ECS 210, 8.4, Q&A: “Teaching Treaties” At the beginning of Clairs Kreugar’s video, she discusses how she adopted her nieces and this allows her to feel and see things different than a lot of her colleague. I find I can relate to this. As someone who began travelling at a very young age and seeing the poverty of third world countries, I have always had outside perspective than many of my peers. Also from working with new comers and refugees as a cultural liaison between families and schools, I have had to stand up for cultures and problems school of occurred on these peoples and also vice versa.  During the talk of the Q and A about learning treaty ed it discusses having that ‘ah hah’ lightbulb moment. I am lucky that my father has always been an extremely strong advocate for teachi