Saturday, 28 February 2015
I want to expand on the works of both Thomas King and Monique Mojica. When reading and studying the play Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots, I was taken back to when I was in elementary school and when field trips were an often occurrence. My elementary school was called Tecumseh, titled after the Native American leader of the group Shawnee. Though I have been a part of the Canadian education system since the age of five, I do not feel as confident with my knowledge of our contemporary ancestors as I would like to be. I feel as though students are not given any direction or push to learn about the history of North American land, which makes any further studies in that field disheartening. I wish I could have more background information ingrained in my mind to balance out any Indigenous texts presented to me.
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