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Journey Together
Restorative Journey: Indigenous Educational Wellness is intended to be thought-provoking with further intention to infuse knowledge and create awareness of our past. It fosters understanding, encourages care, challenges integrity, redefines respect, and cultivates reciprocal trust. It encourages hope and creates
a clear delineation from the past while incorporating the Ethical Standards for the Teaching Profession and the Standards of Practice for the Teaching Profession.
The goal is to guide educators in finding collaborative ways to develop Indigenous educational wellness as partners, co-creators, and witnesses.
This resource is designed in consideration of the Federal Indian Day School class action lawsuit and pending settlement between the federal government and First Nations communities whose territories are in Ontario.
This painting is an artistic representation that was informed by the College Logo.
The painting depicts the Two Row Wampum treaty belt. It symbolizes that we are all treaty people who can journey together on the same river.
Figure 3: Two Row Wampum Belt painting by Six Nations artist Elizabeth Doxtater
The original intent of the Two Row treaty agreement was that each culture could maintain their distinct language, beliefs, traditional forms of governance and territory while living side by side as equals on the basis of eternal peace, friendship and respect.
4 Commemoration • Education • Healing/Wellness