Walking In Relation:
Indigenous Pathways Through Education
Co-Created By: Calder Cheverie & Carolyn Roberts
Hosted By: Carolyn Roberts
Produced By: Calder Cheverie
2022-2024
This six-part podcast series offers a glimpse into the contemporary challenges and successes of decolonial change within places of learning—from elementary to post-secondary—and the Indigenous leaders ushering in this change.
Our hope for you is that this series can be invitation into what Indigenous pathways through education have felt like for so many—that it can help you to feel not alone, or highlight something new altogether—and offer of a glimpse of the beautiful ways education is shifting.
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SAMPLE: Episode #1
Creating Space in Post-Secondary Institutions
The obstacles & pathways to creating lasting space for Indigenous students, faculty and researchers in post-secondary institutions—a conversation with Maggie Kovach and Michelle Pidgeon.
#2: Storywork in (Re)search
A conversation with Sara Florence Davidson on storied pathways for Indigenous ways of knowing in (re)search and walking alongside her father, gathering teachings.
EPISODES
#3: “Survivance” At The District Level
Indigenous "survivance," mentorship and leaning on one another as District Principles in the British Columbia school system. Featuring: Leona Prince, Shelly Niemi and Chas Desjarlais.
#4: Fatigue at the Front Line
Navigating fatigue and isolation on the front line—how Indigenous support-workers and teachers are carving a path for Indigenous students in elementary and high school. Featuring Ramona Elke, MIchelle Andrew and Tsandlia Van Ry.
#5: Writing for the Student Voice
Adapting Braiding Sweetgrass for the classroom, writing for the student voice and the importance of kindness—a conversation with Monique Gray Smith.
#1: Creating Space in Post-Secondary Institutions
The obstacles and pathways to creating lasting space for Indigenous students, faculty and researchers in post-secondary institutions. A conversation with Maggie Kovach and Michelle Pidgeon.
#6: Looking Back to Potlatch
(Re)Learning to be human, the long road of decolonizing institutions and "Looking Back to the Potlatch as a Guide to Truth, Reconciliation, and Transformative Learning." A conversation with Justin Wilson and Aaron Nelson Moody on their seminal work.
Walking In Relation is hosted by Carolyn Roberts—Lecturing Faculty, University of British Columbia—and is produced by Calder Cheverie—Story Coordinator at Ta na wa Ns7éyx̱nitm ta Snew̓íyelh, Skwxwú7mesh Nation.
