An Indigenous Renaissance - A Conversation with Dr Marie Battiste

What does it mean for those in culturally Eurocentric school
systems around the world to learn from and with indigenous
peoples about the role of education in community and connected
with place? Should we even, after the horrors inflicted upon
indigenous communities by settlers? These are delicate but
important questions and it was a huge privilege to be able to sit
down with Dr Marie Battiste to discuss them.


Dr Marie Battiste is a citizen of the Mi’kmaq Nation of
Potlotek First Nations and of the Aroostook Band of Micmacs in
Maine. She is professor emerita in the College of Education at
the University of Saskatchewan. She is a widely published author
and editor, an officer in the Order of Canada, and a fellow of
the Royal Society of Canada. Among her multiple honours are a
National Aboriginal Achievement Award, a University of
Saskatchewan Distinguished Researcher Award, a Distinguished
Academic Award from the Canadian Association of University
Teachers, and the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Medal for Service to
Canada.





Dr Battiste's new book is out in November 2024: 'Protecting
Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage: A Canadian Obligation',
co-written with James Sa'ke'j Youngblood Henderson.


https://www.ubcpress.ca/protecting-indigenous-knowledge-and-heritage-new-edition