Visioning a Mi’kmaw Humanities: Indigenizing the Academy Philosophy from the Cat Lake First

from the Cat Lake First Nation in Northern Ontario who is taken from her family at the age of six and flown far away to residential school

Canada continues to deny the Algonquin Anishinaabeg their right to land and resources

the Wet’suwet’en struggle against pipeline development and other Indigenous-led struggles for Indigenous sovereignty and decolonization

examines a child welfare policy in Canada that began in 1951 in which Indigenous children were taken from their homes and put into the care of non-Indigenous families

GwaaGanad Diane Brown

Visioning a Mi’kmaw Humanities: Indigenizing the Academy Philosophy from the Cat Lake FirstMarie Ann Battiste, Mi'kmaq, is an author and educator and has been honoured with multitude of awards for her work and research. Since the Renaissance, liberal education has as its core tradition a Eurocentric multidisciplinary humanism the study of literature, art, philosophy and history grounded in ancient Greek and Latin texts. In what may be termed cognitive imperialism, the academy has largely ignored Aboriginal perspectives of humanity. In this