Page 23 - Restorative Journey: Indigenous Educational Wellness

Voice Perspective
Many people who came to Native communities “misrepresented” themselves as educators. They helped create intergenerational trauma, based on acts committed under the guise of education.
We can work together to reframe the discourse of Indigenous education. We then identify how cultural deprivation has a negative impact on intergenerational wellness. With this understanding, we take a restorative step forward.
Indigenous educational wellness is our collective goal as we co-create a vision for intergenerational wellness. We displace deprivation of identity with rich cultural teachings based on Indigenous knowledge and pedagogies for everyone:
Elizabeth Doxtater
Indigenous Peoples and the Treaty Partners who live in Ontario, the land of the Good Lake, Kanyatarí:yo. This lake holds the water that Peacemaker travelled on, carrying the message of peace. Together we acknowledge the history and return to the original treaty agreement, and honour the promise of eternal peace, respect and friendship.
We return to the promises represented in the wampum beads that were strung together. We reaffirm the Two Row Wampum belt agreement.
The Two Row will be a guide to protect Indigenous educational wellness and honour the ancestral visions anticipated when education was negotiated as a treaty right. Our minds will be clear, and our thoughts will be straight... like smoke that rises.
Commemoration • Education • Healing/Wellness 15