First Nations art and dance, a new campus, and moving to sustainable open education: a short report on the ETUG Fall Workshop

By Tony Bates. It is now almost standard at conferences in Canada to start with a formal acknowledgement that we are standing on the unceded territory of the relevant First Nation or Nations. While important, indeed, necessary, it sometimes feels a bit like a token ritual, without really addressing the issues of colonialism or really understanding aboriginal culture or needs. More...