Pope Francis and the Catholic Church must make a plan with Indigenous Peoples, not for us, in order to walk the path of reconciliation. Some initial suggestions of what a plan might include.
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You can love a country and still hold it to account. I love Canada. But I won’t stand for the anthem at a sporting event or elsewhere, especially not when my kids are watching.
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The conversation around the U.S.-Canada land border reopening should include Indigenous people and the restrictions they’ve faced since the international border was created.
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As students and faculty start a new academic year, it’s a good time to highlight the barriers to Indigenizing the campus and the importance of Indigenous voices on campus.
Historically, western corporate maps have been privileged over Indigenous ones. But given the essential debate of territory in resource conflicts, maps are a crucial tool.
In Alberta, an alternative initiative sees youth who commit non-violent crimes sentenced to 25 hours of chess instruction with a University of Lethbridge professor.
Calls to “indigenize” universities must start with listening - to Indigenous scholars and nations. And real reparation will be painful for settlers, for it will be unsettling.
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Research Associate - Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Lethbridge
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Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies, University of Lethbridge
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Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Lethbridge
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Researcher, Co-Investigator, Department of Geography, University of Lethbridge
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Lethbridge
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Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of Lethbridge
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Associate Professor, Public Health and Alberta Innovates Research Chair, University of Lethbridge
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Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Critical Border Studies and Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Lethbridge, University of Lethbridge
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Instructor, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Lethbridge
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Masters Student, Biomolecular Interactions and Biophysical Modelling of RNA viruses, University of Lethbridge
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Associate Professor, Indigenous Studies, University of Lethbridge
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Associate professor, University of Lethbridge
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Lethbridge
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Assistant Professor, Sociology Department, University of Lethbridge
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Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Lethbridge
