Indigenous Counter-Stories in Truth and Reconciliation Education

Publisher's description (EdCan Network, 2019): Indigenous counter-stories of refusal, resistance, resilience, and restorying and resurgence enhance this oral history by shining light on community processes that challenge historical and contemporary colonial relationships with Canada. They also make it more difficult to take up colonial positions and ways of being in relationship (e.g. rescuer/victim) that reduce Indigenous agency. As educators, the inclusion of Indigenous counter-stories in truth and reconciliation education allows us to imagine reconciliation between settler Canadians and Indigenous peoples, where the latter are not characterized by the singularizing image of victimhood. 

Resource format: Magazine Article

Age recommendation: University

Keywords: resistance, resiliance, refusal, restorying, resurgence, Truth and Reconciliation

Year of publication: 2019

Publisher information: EdCan Network