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Chiefs Assembly on Education 2012 Report on First Nations Education
The following document is a report from the Chiefs Assembly on First Nations Education in 2012. This report has been pivotal in many of the developments in First Nations Education since then.

The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
One of the foundations used in the development of the new Aboriginal Education portion of the new BC Curriculum was the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People. While the declaration is not a legally binding document, it outlines the individual and collective rights that aboriginal peoples around the world have the right to.

When integrating aboriginal cultures into our teaching practice, we need to consider the depth in which we teach the culture. The diagram below is an example of the depth of culture we must explore.

Image Source: http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/Curriculum/Articles/RayBarnhardt/PBE_ANKN_Chapter.html

Source: Truth and Reconciliation (2012). Justice Murray Sinclair. What is reconciliation? Running Time 2:55. Retrieved from http://vimeo.com/25389165

Engaging with Communities to Support Reconciliation
Dr. Jean Philips discusses the dominant discourse surrounding indigenous learners and how we can support indigenous learners in our classes and introduce indigenous topics to all our students and teachers.

Source: Phillips, J. (March, 2014). Engaging with Communities to Support Reconciliation. (7:28) Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pqoobHqxE4

I'm Not the Indian You Had in Mind
This powerful video was written and directed by author Thomas King and portrays the stereotypes indigenous people encounter in their daily lives and how these stereotypes of the past are empowering them in the greater community.

The new BC Curriculum incorporates First Peoples Principles of Learning across the subjects and the grades. First Peoples Principles of Learning as defined by the Ministry of Education is seen as:

Source: http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/abed/principles_of_learning.pdf

Terminology

Terminology: Which term do I use?
This website compiled by the UBC Indigenous Foundations outlines the different terminology used by different groups.

Wab Kinew's speech on the movers and shakers in the Aboriginal world we should all be aware of.

Source: Dion, S. (July 2012). Introducing and disrupting the perfect stranger. (5:09) Retrieved from http://vimeo.com/59543958