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Knowledge Building
Empowering the Western community with Indigenous perspectives, histories, and informed engagement.
Knowledge Building
Empowering the Western community with Indigenous perspectives, histories, and informed engagement.
Knowledge Building
Empowering the Western community with Indigenous perspectives, histories, and informed engagement.
This section offers a range of resources to support immediate and ongoing learning. Whether you are just beginning or looking to deepen your understanding, these tools provide meaningful ways to engage with Indigenous knowledges, histories, and contemporary realities, and serve as a starting point for building understanding and fostering respectful relationships across campus.
Land Acknowledgement
Learn how to create and deliver meaningful land acknowledgements grounded in respect and understanding.
Indigenous Allyship at Western
Guidance and tools to support respectful relationships and meaningful allyship.
Indigenous Days of Significance
Key dates and observances that honour Indigenous histories, cultures, and communities.
KAIROS Blanket Exercise
An interactive learning experience that explores the history and impacts of colonization in Canada.
Self-Guided Learning Resources
Online Learning Resources
A collection of courses and modules to support independent learning.
IRS Learning Resources
Resources for understanding the history and ongoing impacts of Indian Residential Schools.
Video Learning Resources
Curated videos that explore Indigenous perspectives, stories, and knowledge.
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Embedding Indigenization and decolonization into institutional practice is difficult and nuanced work, join Western’s Office of Indigenous Initiative’s previous Curriculum and Pedagogy Advisor, Sara Mai Chitty, as she visits with Indigenous people who seek to bridge the long-held divides between Euro-Western and Indigenous communities through their work in the areas of curriculum, research and beyond.