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Section 2: Reflective Inquiry
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How do I ensure the Two Row Wampum, Silver Covenant Chain, and Dish With One Spoon treaty agreements are honoured within curriculum lessons and learning environments?
The Dish With One Spoon treaty agreement reflects the importance of environmental stewardship in ensuring the human right of access to nourishment. Reflect on the ethical dimensions of inherent rights in the treaties discussed in this resource.
Although heralded in the American Congress as exemplary in framing a democratic constitution, many forms of traditional Indigenous governance practices were made illegal in Canada’s Indian Act of 1876. Read and discuss the Indian Act.
Indigenous peoples fought on behalf of Canada during major world conflicts, yet were unable to own land, hire a lawyer, get advanced education, and or vote in elections unless they gave up their status as “Indians.” For further insight into these injustices, watch the National Film Board documentary The Forgotten Warriors by Loretta Todd
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