CRECS Noon-Hour Colloquium

Treaty education involves understanding treaties as living agreements that are foundational to the relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Peoples. However, the “master” narrative that treaties were necessary to control Indigenous Peoples and protect settlers was, and still is, a common justification for securing land, a settler colonial nation state’s formation, and the future inherent rights of its non-Indigenous citizens. During this presentation, Dr. Ng-A-Fook will address how we might start to restory, as non-Indigenous citizens, a curriculum-lived-as-treaty-relations. Such restorying, as he suggests, starts first by deconstructing and reconstructing the current historical narratives taught through the Ontario social studies and history curricula. In turn, Dr. Ng-A-Fook invites us to reconsider how redressing such historical narratives in teacher education can aid to reimagining, remaking, and/or establishing mutually respectful relations between and among Indigenous and non-Indigenous citizens and the more-than-human world.  

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