Creating Space My Life and Work in Indigenous Education 1st Edition by Verna Kirkness ISBN ‎ 0887557430 978-0887557439

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ISBN 10: 0887557430

ISBN 13:   978-0887557439

Author:  Verna J. Kirkness

Verna J. Kirkness grew up on the Fisher River Indian reserve in Manitoba. Her childhood dream to be a teacher set her on a lifelong journey in education as a teacher, counsellor, consultant, and professor. Her simple quest to teach “in a Native way” revolutionized Canadian education policy and practice.

Kirkness broke new ground at every turn. As the first cross-cultural consultant for the Manitoba Department of Education Curriculum Branch she made Cree and Ojibway the languages of instruction in several Manitoba schools. In the early 1970s she became the first Education Director for the Manitoba Indian Brotherhood (now the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs) and then Education Director for the National Indian Brotherhood (now the Assembly of First Nations). She played a pivotal role in developing the education sections of Wahbung: Our Tomorrows, which transformed Manitoba education, and the landmark 1972 national policy of Indian Control of Indian Education. These two major works have shaped First Nations education in Canada for more than 40 years.

In the 1980s she became an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia where she was appointed Director of the Native Teacher Education Program, founded the Ts’‘Kel Graduate Program, and was a driving force behind the creation of the First Nations House of Learning. Honoured by community and country, Kirkness is a visionary who has inspired, and been inspired by, generations of students.

Like a long conversation between friends, Creating Space reveals the challenges and misgivings, the burning questions, the successes and failures that have shaped the life of this extraordinary woman and the history of Aboriginal education in Canada.

Table of contents: 

Chapter One: My Family

• Elementary and High School

Chapter Two: My Teaching Career

• Reedy Creek and Bellhampton

• Going to Normal School

• Fisher River

• Birtle Indian Residential School

• Rossville Indian Residential and Day School in Norway House

Chapter Three: Beyond Teaching

• Counselling in Winnipeg

• Supervisor of Schools

• Cross-Cultural Education Consultant

• Photo Section 1

Chapter Four: Working Provincially and Nationally

• Manitoba Indian Brotherhood

• A Year at University

• The National Indian Brotherhood

• Travelling to Israel

• Freelance Consultant

• “Not a Prophet in Your Own Land”

Chapter Five: The University of British Columbia

• Native Indian Teacher Education Program

• Ts’‘kel is Born

• The First Nations House of Learning

• Study Tours to Aotearoa (New Zealand)

• Feasibility Study on an Aboriginal Languages Institute

• The First Nations Longhouse

Chapter Six: Retirement

Chapter Seven: Leaving Vancouver

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