“Ambitious” barely begins to describe the scope and depth of “Celebrating Indigenous Teacher Education” a fabulous interactive production by the Rideau Hall Foundation with Canadian Geographic, that “seeks to enrich Canada’s learning landscape with 10,000 First Nations, Inuit and Métis teachers, transforming education for Indigenous students.”
If you insist on a quick summary, how about this? Indigenous Language Teachers: Your Language Community Needs You!
Ready to dive deep into the whole, enormous production? Maybe take a deep breath first: “breathtaking” is not an overstatement.
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Discover mapping of Teacher Education Initiatives all across Canada (all those programs like ITEP and BUNTEP!).List Item #1
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Discover mapping of Teacher Education Initiatives all across Canada (all those programs like ITEP and BUNTEP!).List Item #1
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Click on the program timelines (below the map) to dive even deeper into their individual histories (complete with stunning video).
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Scroll down a little more and discover the feature story, "Uncle Teachings and Auntie Laughter" translated into ten (10!) Indigenous languages, each with downloadable PDF.
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Connect with the individual translators through their bios and photos. [Ed. note: Indigenous Language Translators: Your Language Community Needs You, too!]
In addition to the main link “Celebrating Indigenous Teacher Education“, we’ve extracted the PDF for Plains Cree to present here. Plains Cree translation was provided by Darlene Arcand of Muskeg Lake Cree Nation, who writes (in her own bio):
ninēhiyāwin ninēhiyawān ēwiko poko nintawēyitēn kita kiskēyimisoyān.
“I am Cree, I speak Cree this is all I need to know myself, it is my identity.”
