Teaching to understand our relationship to Treaty 4

I am passionate about teaching for social justice.  To me, this means fostering the development of more critical awareness and understandings of ourselves and our relations within this colonized space.  Growing up as a white settler in Canada, I was denied the opportunity to learn about the ways in which my identity was (and still is) constructed and the ways in which I am privileged at the expense of others who are marginalized.  Learning in more critical ways about the treaty relationship enables us to more fully understand the ongoing forces of structural inequity and injustice that continue to marginalize many in Canada.  Teaching for an understanding of the treaty relationship is an opportunity to work towards decolonization and reconciliation.

 

Tana