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DeDe DeRose, BC's First Superintendent of Aboriginal Achievement
DeDe DeRose is Secwepempc and a member of the Esketemc First Nation near Williams Lake. She graduated from the Native Indian Teacher’s Education Bed...
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Myth #4: Indigenous Peoples Receive Free Post Secondary Education
Myth #4: Indigenous Peoples receive free post-secondary education. Reality: To say that Indigenous Peoples receive free post-secondary funding is...
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Why Aren’t Aboriginal Workers Filling the Labour Shortage Gap?
The Conference Board of Canada recently released a report Understanding the Value, Challenges, and Opportunities of Engaging Metis, Inuit and First...
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Differentiation: Indigenous Peoples and Non-Indigenous Peoples
Many non-Indigenous people believe that Indigenous Peoples, under the Indian Act receive “special treatment” and unfair advantages. More...
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Bands Call for Return of Agency #1 Lands
Rainy Lake has always been important to the Anishinaabe of this region,” says Chief Janice Henderson of Mitaanjigamiing First Nation. “The district...
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From Oppression to Opportunity: St. Eugene Golf Resort and Casino
I recently had the opportunity to golf at the St. Eugene Golf Resort and Casino, formerly the St. Eugene Indian Residential School, on the...
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Eye Contact and Indigenous Peoples
Many non-Indigenous people believe that it is important to maintain eye contact during conversation. For many Indigenous Peoples, continuous eye...
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Handshakes and Indigenous Peoples
When it comes to a handshake and Indigenous Peoples what could possibly go wrong? Many people like to shake hands and always offer a hand when...
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Indigenous Peoples Did Not Have Written Languages
Many Indigenous Peoples of North America did not have written languages and instead relied on oral histories to pass down their traditions and...
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Were All Indigenous People Nomadic?
There has been a long-held idea that all Indigenous Peoples were nomadic peoples living in primitive conditions roaming the land searching for their...