Decolonizing Teaching Resources
Implementing Decolonization and Indigenization: Key Resources
BC Campus Pulling Together Indigenization guides
These guides are the result of a collaboration between BCcampus and the Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills. The project was led by a steering committee of Indigenous education leaders from B.C universities, colleges, and institutes, the First Nations Education Steering Committee, the Indigenous Adult and Higher Learning Association, and Métis Nation BC. We thank them for their guidance, support, and generosity. The content in these guides is authored by teams of Indigenous and ally writers from across BC.
Dismantling Racism & Oppression: In the Classroom & Beyond guide
This guide presents a selection of resources in support of all members of the Camosun community in their work to make actionable change to dismantle racism and work towards anti-oppression and social justice. There is Indigenous content on all of the pages, but the “Decolonization & reconciliation,” “In the classroom & beyond” and “Anti-ableism” pages may be of particular interest.
The Indigenizing Citations at Camosun guide provides in-depth information about Indigenizing research practices, including:
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- Indigenous academic integrity
- information on Indigenous style elements (including capitalization and Indigenous names)
- Indigenizing Chicago, APA, and MLA citation styles
- the politics of citing and naming
- Camosun Library’s Authentic Indigenous Voices icon
- what to do when you are unsure
Teaching & Learning Resources at Camosun: Indigenization guide
This guide centres Haida educator, Bill Montgomery’s “About us, with us” approach to Indigenizing and decolonizing pedagogy. Resources provided range from curriculum development, lesson plans, Territory information, on the land learning opportunities, resources made by and for instructors, and more.
Bibliography
Camosun College. n.d. Indigenization Initiative: What is Indigenization? Camosun College. https://camosun.ca/about/about-camosun-college/indigenization-initiative
Camosun Library. (2024). Decolonizing the Library. Camosun College. https://camosun.ca/services/library/decolonizing-library
Cote-Meek, S. (2020). Introduction. In S. Cote-Meek and T. Moeke-Pickering (Eds.), Decolonizing and Indigenizing Education in Canada (pp. xi-xxiii). Canadian Scholars.
Cote-Meek, S. and Moeke-Pickering, T. (2023). Amplifying and Centering Indigenous Pedagogies in Post-Secondary Education. In S. Cote-Meek and T. Moeke-Pickering (Eds.), Perspectives on Indigenous Pedagogy in Education: Learning from One Another, (pp. 1-15). IGI Global.
Crilly, J. and Everitt, R. (2022). Decolonising the Library: From Personal Experience to Collective Action: A conversation with Hillary Gyebi-Ababio. In J. Crilly and R. Everitt (Eds.), Narrative Expansions: Interpreting Decolonisation in Academic Libraries. Facet Publishing.
Hobenshield, S. (2020). The Practice of Goodness: An Ethical Approach to Indigenization Vancouver Island University. In T. Ormiston, J. Green, and K. Aguirre (Eds.), S’TEṈISTOLW̱: Moving Indigenous Education Forward (pp. 97-108). JCharlton Publishing.
John, K. D. (2019). Rez Ponies and Confronting Sacred Junctures in Decolonizing and Indigenous Education. In L. Tuhiwai Smith, E. Tuck, and K. W. Yang (Eds.), Indigenizing and Decolonizing Studies in Education: Mapping the Long View (pp. 50-61). Taylor & Francis.
Ministry of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation. (n.d.). Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act Action Plan: 2022-2027. Government of British Columbia. https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/government/ministries-organizations/ministries/indigenous-relations-reconciliation/declaration_act_action_plan.pdf
Styres, S. (Kanien’kehá:ka). (2019). Decolonizing Narratives, Storying, and Literature. In L. Tuhiwai Smith, E. Tuck, and K. W. Yang (Eds.), Indigenizing and Decolonizing Studies in Education: Mapping the Long View (pp. 24-37). Taylor & Francis.
Tuhiwai Smith, L. (2020). Critical Indigenous Pedagogies that Support Being and Doing Indigeneity. In T. Ormiston, J. Green, and K. Aguirre, (Eds.), S’TEṈISTOLW̱: Moving Indigenous Education Forward (pp. 49-52). JCharlton Publishing.
Wilson, K. (Ed.). (2018). Pulling Together: Foundations Guide. BCcampus. https://opentextbc.ca/indigenizationfound