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“Coyote” by Jim Sedgewick licensed under All Rights Reserved
Context: UNDRIP (United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People)
BC Legislature passed UNDRIP into law in November of 2019.
The United Nations passed UNDRIP in September of 2007. It includes 46 articles covering all facets of human rights of Indigenous peoples.
Context: The Truth & Reconciliation Report (2015) Calls to Action
“The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada was a commission like no other in Canada. Constituted and created by the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, which settled the class actions, the Commission spent six years travelling to all parts of Canada to hear from the Aboriginal people who had been taken from their families as children, forcibly if necessary, and placed for much of their childhoods in residential schools.” (2015: Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, preface)
Finding Our Co-: Witness Blanket as Co-curricular Making for Local Indigenous and Settler Relations
This paper reveals the journey of two settler-researcher-educators supporting learning in preparation for Carey Newman’s Witness Blanket Art Exhibit. Invited to create curriculum for students and educators of K-12 who would visit the exhibit, the authors describe co-curricular making as a living, re-generative, re-cursive experience. The learning alongside diverse perspectives of educators and community partners in circle—including Syilx Okanagan, School District, Art Gallery, Museum, and University—led to reconsidered understandings of co-curricular making. Relational commitments that invite co-curricular engagement with the Witness Blanket foreground Syilx Knowledge toward resisting colonial ways, and supporting tmixʷ, the life forces of Syilx Okanagan Territory.