S’TENISTOLW: Moving Indigenous Education Forward

ISBN: 978-1-926476-28-5
Price: 33.00
Binding: Paperback
Date: March 2020
Rights: World
Pages: 166
Size: 6”x9”

Table of Contents

Opening Words
Elders/Old Ones May and Skip Sam

Acknowledgements
About the Logo
Table of Contents

Foreword:
S’TENISTOLW
Verna Billy-Minnabarriet

Introduction:
The Story of S’TENISTOLW “To Walk or Move Forward”
Todd Ormiston, Janice Simcoe, and Kelly Aguirre

PART I: INDIGENOUS PEDAGOGIES

LAND and COMMUNITY-BASED EDUCATION
Keynote Speaker
Bringing into the Sunlight After a Great Eclipse: Indigenous Pathway to Knowledge and Community
Gregory Cajete

QĆÁSET Culture Camp: Developing Pathways to Strengthen Spiritual Renewal within Post Secondary Educational Institutions
Naadli (Todd Ormiston) with Mookaasige (Richard Spearman)

SḰÁLs TŦE TEṈEW TŦE SḰÁȽTE (Our Language is the Voice of the Land): Land and Language-Based Learning and Teaching
Nicholas XEMŦOLTW Claxton and STOLȻEȽ John Elliott Sr.

SUPPORTING LEARNER ENGAGEMENT
Keynote Speaker
Critical Indigenous Pedagogies that Support Being and Doing Indigeneity
Linda Tuhiwai Smith

Noosa – A Haisla Paradigm of Sacred Storying Practices for (Re)Searching Teachings shared by glasttowk askq Ray Green and bakk jus moojillth,
Mary Green and written by Kundoqk, Jacquie Green

Approaching a Turn: Indigenous Access, Equity, and Belonging in Post- Secondary STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Spaces
Sandy Marie Bonny

PART 2: RELATIONALITY AND LIVING OUR COLLECTIVE VALUES

PRACTICING INDIGENIZATION
Keynote Speaker
Being and Doing: Teachings of the Land
Kathy Absolon

The Practice of Goodness: An Ethical Approach to Indigenization Vancouver Island University
Sharon Hobenshield

Being Human: Indigenization in Practice
Dianne Biin and Janice Simcoe

STRENGTHENING ALLIANCES
Keynote Speaker
Transforming Practice from Discourse to Enactment: Show Me the Blisters on Your Hands.
Graham Hingangaroa Smith

The Community is Our Classroom: A Story of Nurses Living and Learning with First Nations
Evelyn Voyageur and Joanna Fraser

Walking Together: Indigenous and Black Perspectives on Decolonizing Education
V.C. Rhonda Hackett, Amoaba Gooden, Billie Allan, and Devi Mucina

Moving Forward
Closing Plenary Panel
S’TENISTOLW

Closing Words
Elder, Alex Nelson

Contributing Authors / Editors
List of Figures

Todd Ormiston, Jacquie Green, & Kelly Aguirre

Naadli (Todd) Ormiston EdD, is Northern Tutchone/ Tlingit from Yukon and Alas­ka. He has worked for the past 18 years at Camosun College and is current­ly the Chair of Indigenous Education and Community Connections. He sees learning as “a lifelong process whereby instructors have an important role to play in ensuring that teaching is not only an obligation but also a form of liberation.” Naadli’s doctoral dissertation was an examination of Indigenous leadership pedagogies in higher education where he conducted a case study through the University of Victoria.

Kundoqk (Jacquie Green) PhD, is from the Haisla Nation, northwestern Can­ada. She is the Director in the School of Social Work at the University of Victoria. Her scholarship is em­bedded in Indigenous and Anti Oppressive knowledge and philosophies, thus looking at histories, identities, place and language through storytelling. Her pedagogy includes methods to center marginalized groups, peoples and com­munities and is inclusive of Indigenous livelihoods. She focuses her research, writing and teaching to Include critical theories to inform Indigenous and so­cial justice epistemologies, pedagogies and philosophies.

Kelly Aguirre PhD, is Nahua mestiza born in Mexico City Tenochtitlán and raised in Treaty 1 Anishnaabe, Cree and Métis homelands, Winnipeg MB. She holds an MA in Politics from the University of Manitoba and is a recent PhD grad­uate in Political Science at the University of Victoria. Her work is located at the intersections of political theory scholarship, methodological ethics and storytelling principles. Kelly was the Coordinator of the 2017 S’TENISTOLW Conference and is currently a sessional instructor in Indigenous Studies at Camosun College and Political Science at the University of Victoria.

This book is like a visit home, to talk with the wisest people you know on your reserve or in your neighbourhood. There is an intimacy in how each author shares their own stories of hope, insight and resilience. You will be nourished, strengthened, and inspired. You may be even gently chastised as you read about how Indigenous ways of learning are gaining ground in the educational settings around us. If you enjoy such visits you will treasure this book.

John Borrows, PhD

Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Law
University of Victoria

S’TENISTOLW is a wonderful feast of stories, experiences, teachings, and approaches of educational and community leaders involved in Indigenous post-secondary education. Practitioners-scholars-leaders receive gifts of hope, inspiration, and transforming potential to live Indigenous education in good ways through innovative Indigenous pedagogies, relational theories, authentic community and land-based programs, and critical engagement.

Jo-Ann Archibald, PhD

Professor of Educational Studies
University of British Columbia

I can’t wait to share this book! It offers timely and pivotal insights from leading theorists and practitioners about the transformational project of “Indigenizing” the academy and other institutions. I’m sure it will serve educators, students and community members alike as we think through complex questions of transformative, Indigenous knowledge production and education.

Kim Anderson, PhD

Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Relationships
University of Guelph