Dwayne Donald - Imagining Decolonization Of Aboriginal Canadian Relations

Question 1

Forts as mythic symbols of colonialism in Canada

Answer 1

• the story of looking at indigenous camps from the fort
• the experience of being outside, inside, and then once again outside the walls of the fort was accrued social and spatial division between indigenous and non-indigenous people
• viewing indigenous and Europeans as complete opposites, and denies the extraordinary cross, cultural nature of the trade
  -myths here are described as truths about culture and conventional views of history that have been deeply influenced by the stories of our country that we have been told in school. They are simplified and selective to embody important, cultural values and elevate them as dominant views of society.

Question 2

The implications of these insights for curriculum and pedagogy today

Answer 2

-the four represents a four corner version of imperial geography, which involves one country ruling over widely spaced geographic areas. Europeans rule land lands perceived as empty and unused.
- Canadians have given themselves so deeply into this mythic national narrative. The story has come to shape past and present relationships with aboriginal peoples.
- Derive from the colonial project of dividing the world according to racial and cultural categories

Question 3

Role as an educator

Answer 3

• reframing curriculum so that it better serves the needs and priorities of aboriginal communities
• how these for stories have found expression in the stories told the children in classrooms, teaching them to divide the world in these ways
• A new critical issue now involves the concerns of the rules of aboriginal people‘s communities and the perspectives can play in the future of Canadian Society
• acknowledging these ways of knowledge in the classroom
• teaching engagements that traverse the divides of the past and presence

Question 4

Attention to ethical space

Answer 4

• helps to decolonize curriculum and foster the creation of a sphere of public memory towards indigenous peoples
• If colonization is a shared connection than the colonization needs to be a shared endeavour and can only occur when aboriginal peoples and Canadians face each other across historic divides and deconstruct their shared past