University of Ottawa Chancellor Claudette Commanda, left, helps fold the memorial cloth banner during a Remembering the Children event marking National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Sept. 30, 2023.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
‘Indigenization’ across departments implies the need for consultation with local Indigenous communities and a shift towards all departments and faculty recognizing we work on Indigenous lands.
Indigenous histories often go unrecognized in institutional university memories.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston
University histories need to be re-examined with attention to the role of Indigenous Peoples, connections to Residential Schools and universities’ fundraising efforts.
People gather as a totem pole is raised at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, B.C., in April 2017.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
In the 19th century, British colonial practices of using land to fund universities was a fragmented, but far-reaching, pattern of institutional development.