In this highly interactive workshop, you will participate in looking deeper into the definitions, historical context and cultural information that surround cultural appropriation. We will examine the complexities of this work as well as look for opportunities for digging deeper in understanding of the harms of this work on Indigenous people and communities. This thought-provoking workshop will help you gain the tools needed to find cultural appropriate materials, as well as knowing how to identify these materials for your classroom.
K-12
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Quoted from Jesse Wente's new book Unreconciled. Page 168
"Cultural appropriation is Canada's tactic, a colonizer's tool. Indigenous people didn't invent it; we just suffer its consequences- so why should we have to endlessly explain it?"
Appropriations links:
Sara Davidson https://issuu.com/teachernewsmag/docs/teacher_magazine_may_2020
SFU Think Before you Appropriate https://www.sfu.ca/ipinch/sites/default/files/resources/teaching_resources/think_before_you_appropriate_jan_2016.pdf
Video shared https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXejDhRGOuI
Carolyn’s Blog https://www.carolynroberts.net/single-post/cultural-appropriation-it-is-not-your-story-to-tell-and-profit-from
Carolyn Roberts uses her voice to support Indigenous resurgence through education. Under the Indian Act she belongings to the Squamish Nation, her birth Mother is from the Thevarge family from N'Quatqua Nation and her birth Father is from the Kelly family from Tzeachten Nation. Carolyn is a faculty member at Simon Fraser University in the PDP program for preservice teachers. She has been an educator and administrator for over 20 years and is currently working on her PhD in decolonization, anti-racism, and Indigenous education.