A thoughtful guide to critical engagement with Indigenous texts, perspectives, and teaching methods, as well as ideas and action steps for bringing them into professional practice, in the classroom and beyond.
Katya Adamov Ferguson (she/her/hers) is a settler educator and
artist of Ukrainian and Russian ancestry from Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Katya is also an arts-based researcher engaging with creative and
critical methods to support place-based inquiries and deeper
understandings of land-based issues. She is committed to creating
partnerships and supporting Indigenous resurgence.
Christine M’Lot (she/her/hers) is an Anishinaabe educator and
curriculum developer from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She currently teaches
high school at the University of Winnipeg Collegiate and is the
associate publisher at Portage & Main Press. To learn more about
her past and current education projects, visit her website at
Christinemlot.com.
KC Adams (Ininnew/Anishinaabe/British) is a registered Fisher River
Cree Nation member living in Winnipeg. KC is a relational maker,
educator, activist, and mentor who creates work that explores
technology in relation to her Indigenous culture. Adams is an
award-winning, nationally and internationally known maker with a
B.F.A. from Concordia University and an M.A. in Cultural Studies,
Curatorial Stream from the University of Winnipeg. KC has had
numerous solo and group exhibitions, residencies and three
biennales.
Sonya Ballantyne (she, they) is a Swampy Cree writer, filmmaker,
and speaker based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her work explores
contemporary and futuristic portrayals of Indigenous women and
girls. Her award-winning projects include the documentary Nosisim
(2024 Barry Lank Award) and the graphic novel Little by Little (In
The Margins, 2025 Top Ten Title). Sonya is also the author of the
children’s book Kerri Berry Lynn, contributor to anthologies such
as Pros and (Comic) Cons and Women Love Wrestling, and co-director
of The Death Tour, which was screened at Cannes in 2023 with a
world premiere at the Slamdance Film Festival in 2024.
Charlene Bearhead (she/her/hers) is an educator and Indigenous
education advocate living in Treaty 6 Territory in central Alberta.
She was the first Education Lead for the National Centre for Truth
and Reconciliation and the Education Coordinator for the National
Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
Charlene was recently honoured with the Alumni Honours Award from
the University of Alberta and currently serves as the Director of
Reconciliation for Canadian Geographic. She is a mother and a
grandmother who began writing stories to teach her own children as
she raised them. Adaptations of these stories have now been
published as the Siha Tooskin Knows series, which she co-wrote with
her husband, Wilson.
Wilson Bearhead (he/him/his) is a Nakota Elder and Wabamun Lake
First Nation member in Treaty 6 Territory (central Alberta). A
recent recipient of the Canadian Teachers’ Federation Indigenous
Elder Award, he co-wrote the Siha Tooskin Knows series with his
wife, Charlene. Currently Wilson is a board member for the
Roots of Resilience Education Foundation. Wilson’s grandmother,
Annie, was a powerful, positive influence in his young life,
teaching him all of the lessons that gave him the strength,
knowledge, and skills to overcome difficult times and embrace the
gifts of life.
Lisa Boivin is a member of the Deninu Kue First Nation and the
author/artist of two illustrated books, We Dream Medicine Dreams
(shortlisted for the 2022 Rocky Mountain Book Award) and I Will See
You Again (AICL's Best Books of 2020, nominated for First Nation
Communities READ Award). She is an interdisciplinary artist and a
PhD candidate at the Rehabilitation Sciences Institute at
University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine. Lisa uses images as a
pedagogical tool to bridge gaps between medical ethics and aspects
of Indigenous cultures and worldviews. She is writing and collaging
an arts-based thesis that addresses the colonial barriers that
Indigenous patients navigate in the current healthcare system. Lisa
strives to humanize clinical medicine as she situates her art in
the Indigenous continuum of passing knowledge through images.
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Rita Bouvier, a Métis educator, formally served 37 years in
public education as a classroom teacher and in various leadership
capacities locally, nationally, and internationally. She was
awarded an Eagle Feather from her Awasis peers in 2006, the
Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation Arbos Award in 2007, and the
Indspire Award for Education in 2014. Rita’s poetry collection
nakamowin’sa for the seasons (Thistledown Press, 2015) was the 2016
Saskatchewan Book Awards’ winner of the Rasmussen, Rasmussen, and
Charowsky Aboriginal Peoples’ Writing Award.
Nicola I. Campbell is the author of Shi-shi-etko, Shin-chi’s Canoe,
Grandpa’s Girls, and A Day with Yayah. Nłeʔkepmx, Syílx, and Métis,
from British Columbia, her stories weave cultural and land-based
teachings that focus on respect, endurance, healing, and
reciprocity.
Nicola's books have been among the finalists for numerous
children’s literary awards. Shin-chi’s Canoe won the 2009 TD
Canadian Children’s Literature Award and was a 2008 Governor
General's Award for Illustration finalist.
Sara Florence Davidson (she/her) is a Haida/Settler Assistant
Professor in Indigenous Education in the Faculty of Education at
Simon Fraser University. Previously, she was an educator working
with adolescents in the K-12 system in British Columbia and Yukon
Territory. Sara is the co-author of Potlatch as Pedagogy: Learning
through Ceremony, which she wrote with her father, and Magical
Beings of Haida Gwaii, which she wrote with her stepmother,
Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson.
When she is not reading or writing, Sara can be found walking with
her dog, drinking tea, or listening to stories and learning
something new.
Louise Bernice Halfe, also known by her Cree name, Sky Dancer, is
Canada’s ninth parliamentary poet laureate. She was raised on
Saddle Lake First Nation and attended Blue Quills Residential
School. Louise served as the first Indigenous poet laureate of
Saskatchewan, and earned her Doctorate of Letters from Wilfrid
Laurier University, the University of Saskatchewan, and Mount Royal
University. Louise’s most recent titles include awâsis—kinky and
dishevelled and a new edition of the Governor General’s Literary
Award finalist Blue Marrow.
Lucy Hemphill is a Kwakwaka’wakw mother from the
Gwa’sala-‘Nakwaxda’xw Nation. She graduated from the University of
British Columbia with a Bachelor of Arts in First Nations and
Indigenous Studies in 2019. Lucy strives to reconnect to ancestral
relational ways of being and is currently working to develop
language revitalization and healing programs in her community. Lucy
is the author of the Overhead Series, which includes three poetry
titles: Clouds, Stars, and Trees.
Wanda John-Kehewin (she/her/hers) is a Cree writer who uses her
work to understand and respond to the near destruction of First
Nations cultures, languages, and traditions. When she first arrived
in Vancouver on a Greyhound bus, she was a pregnant
nineteen-year-old carrying little more than a bag of chips, a
bottle of pop, thirty dollars, and hope. After many years
travelling (well, mostly stumbling) along her healing journey, she
now writes to stand in her truth and to share that truth openly. A
published poet and fiction author, her first novel for young
adults, Hopeless in Hope, won the Sheila A. Egoff Children’s
Literature Prize and was named to USBBY’s Outstanding International
Books list.
Eizabeth LaPensée (she/her or they/them), PhD, is an award-winning
designer, writer, artist, and researcher who creates and studies
Indigenous-led media, including video games. She is Anishinaabe
with family from Bay Mills, Métis, and Irish. She is an assistant
professor of media and information, and writing, rhetoric, and
American cultures at Michigan State University and a 2018
Guggenheim Fellow.
Victoria McIntosh, also known as Biktoryias, has a strong bond
to stories and identifies as ikwe (woman, water carrier).
Transitioning from artist to educator, she now merges both gifts
into sharing what she sees in her life. Working with many different
mediums and combining traditional storytelling with artworks, she
strives to create deeper meaning and understanding of Indigenous
teachings.
Reanna Merasty (she/her/hers) is Ininew from Barren Lands First
Nation, completed her Master of Architecture at the University of
Manitoba, and is an Architectural Intern at Number TEN
Architectural Group. She also works with One House Many Nations as
a Research Assistant on First Nations housing development, where
her research focuses on reciprocity, Indigenous knowledge systems,
and land-based pedagogy.
David A. Robertson (he/him/his) is a two-time winner of the
Governor General's Literary Award, has won the TD Canadian
Children’s Literature Award, as well as the Writer's Union of
Canada Freedom to Read award. He has received several other
accolades for his work as a writer for children and adults,
podcaster, public speaker, and social advocate. He was honoured
with a Doctor of Letters by the University of Manitoba for
outstanding contributions in the arts and distinguished
achievements in 2023. He is a member of Norway House Cree Nation
and lives in Winnipeg.
Russell Wallace (he/him/his) is an award-winning composer,
producer, and traditional singer from the Lil’wat Nation. His music
can be heard on soundtracks for film, television, theatre, and
dance productions. His most recent album, Unceded Tongues, combines
Salish musical forms with pop, jazz, and blues, and is sung in the
St’át’imc language. Russell is a founding member of the Aboriginal
Writers Collective West Coast and an alumnus of the University of
British Columbia Creative Writing Program.
Christina Lavalley Ruddy, a member of Algonquins of Pikwakanagan
First Nation, is an artist, researcher, mentor, and advocate. She
has spent her career working to empower Indigenous youth through
education, language, and capacity building, in settings such as
friendship centres and post-secondary institutions. In 2018,
Christina received Lakehead University’s Indigenous Partnership
Research Award, with Dr. Ruth Beatty, in recognition of her
leadership in incorporating Indigenous knowledge into the Ontario
mathematics curriculum.
Over the past several years, calls have come from across Canada for
the inclusion of Indigenous worldviews and knowledge in all levels
of education in the country. Enter...Resurgence: Engaging With
Indigenous Narratives and Cultural Expressions In and Beyond the
Classroom.
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