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governing public facilities? How might such regulations be revised to accommodate these roles safely and appropriately?”
B3.4 design an initiative to build awareness of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit cultures and realities within the school community (e.g., a student group to share ideas and perspectives on raising cross-cultural awareness within the school community; hosting a guest from a local Indigenous community to speak to the class or the whole school about the voices and perspectives of the community; a film festival or other arts event to increase awareness of the history, contemporary reality, and/or cultural protocols of a First Nation, Métis, or Inuit community)
Sample questions: “What aspects of this community’s history and current reality
do you want your exhibition to highlight?” “What aspects of using cultural protocols and developing cultural awareness do you want to address in your initiative?” “What could you do to encourage members of the school community to acknowledge the First Nations territory on which they live?” “How might you work with your teacher, principal, or the school community to incorporate Indigenous histories and current realities into school events such as Remembrance Day and Treaties Recog- nition Week?”