Today’s blog post comes to you a little more creatively than other posts. I have spent this last week with my students, listening to their land explorations. I have asked them this term to be on the land as a practice. Connect with the land as a practice. Feel the land, understand the land and what has been done to this land in order for us to be here, live here, and settle here. This work has profoundly shifted my students and the narrative that they have been told and know

Indigenous students experience our education system as an assimilation and nullification of their own identity.” Michael Marker (2004p.105) As an Indigenous lecturer, educator, administrator, and graduate student, I have been in many unwelcoming and uncomfortable spaces, that were designed for learning. Throughout my journey in education my many encounters with racism and potentially unwitting but nonetheless ignorant comments have cut into my being. While in these encounters