Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #indigeneity
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1/11 It is important to note that with the Queen’s recommendations, there is NO insistence on “card’s only” in #indigenous verification processes. In fact there is an acknowledgment that institutions need to develop processes that DO NOT rely on what some refer to as “colonial”…
2/11..And/or “race-based” cards. So why are some folks suggesting that there is? Perhaps they are more put out that the report suggests that it isn’t ethnical to go back to “native ancestors” born centuries ago and that a person taking up an #indigenous position should at…
3/11..Least have a grandparent who lived as an Indigenous person? But what I don’t get is the rhetoric that is supporting the notion that Indian status/status card = colonized = bad. Let’s pause for just a second and consider that Indian status…
1/9 This ordeal has been so personal and emotional for me and my family. Can you imagine moving to a new city, being introduced to “an Elder from your home territory” who is this man? Can you...cbc.ca/news/canada/ot…
2/9 Imagine realizing quickly that this man was not Ojibwe but was a non-native man appropriating your language, your art, your family’s stories of intergenerational trauma related to IRS and the Sixties Scoop? Can you imagine the years of work my family & other families...
3/9 have had to commit to to quite literally piece themselves back together after decades of settler colonial brutality aimed at breaking our family/kinship ties and our connection to our homelands?...
It’s been a long week but spending my Saturday listening to my colleagues’ presentations on #anticolonialism, #decolonization, #indigeneity and #solidarity is so invigorating! #ongoinglearning #OISEUofT 
Three modes of a pedagogy of #solidarity: relational, transitive and creative. #ongoinglearning #OISEUofT
“Stop smothering me with your othering me.” - poet in the classroom 🙌🏼🙌🏼
