PG
Jan 10, 2021
This was a really great course-I learned so much. I thought the course was very well organized and each module brought many perspectives that I hadn't really been exposed to throughout my education.
DH
Sep 21, 2021
To truly heal as a nation, we must all walk the path of reconciliation. The first step is education. Gratitude to University of Alberta for lighting the way by unpacking Canada's complicated history.
By Michelle A
•Aug 14, 2022
well presented
By BEER B S G
•Jan 10, 2022
Best Learnings
By Kumar A
•Jul 25, 2024
Informational
By Sanatan D G
•Jul 26, 2022
Great course!
By Hannah B
•Mar 25, 2020
Great content
By Tammy S
•Aug 18, 2024
Great course
By Amanda C L
•Oct 11, 2022
interesting
By Chris A
•Apr 27, 2022
great course
By Colin M
•Aug 18, 2018
Informative
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•Sep 10, 2024
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By Michael C
•Aug 23, 2022
Thank you.
By Alice H
•Sep 5, 2020
Very good.
By Lesley B
•Aug 11, 2020
Thank you!
By Kathleen S
•Sep 6, 2022
thank you
By John P S
•Aug 20, 2022
Well done
By Breana P
•Jun 19, 2022
good info
By Michael A O
•Oct 26, 2020
Engaging.
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•Jul 17, 2023
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•Mar 13, 2023
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•Sep 11, 2024
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By Ernie G
•Nov 2, 2021
Course was very informative and full of information.
It became a course of how the victim's were exploited and continue to be and how they suffer today, without offering solutions to the problems.
Given today October 2021, with all the news of the atrocities of the Residential Schools, this course would take a graver view of the indigenous peoples position, without offering solutions.
Solutions are what allow errors and mistakes to be dealt with and for societies to move forward. Continuation of the past solves nothing. What can be done to allow the healing to to commence?
I took this course hoping to gain an understanding of what is wrong, at the very beginning of it that information was provided, and throughout the course examples of how indigenous people are treated and segregated was given. What is the solution from the indigenous point of view?
I am very thankful that the indigenous community is gravely concerned about the land and the environment, their stories hold get truths and meanings, this course showed that and reenforced my thoughts.
However what I gather from this is that the indigenous community want to have special compensations and exemptions. In a society it does not work it becomes chaos. Tradition and culture are very important to all, but granting individual groups special exemptions benefits no one. What I got from this course is that indigenous people want exemptions and compensation for past errors. But in what form?
A society must agree to work together as a unit or like paddling a canoe, if both people are not paddling in the same direction nothing is accomplished. Most definitely traditions and culture need to be maintained (the error of residential schools) but we must work together, we must all contribute equally in some manner, much like a marriage we all need to perform the role and tasks of what we are good at.
Thank you for the course I enjoyed the information and knowledge.