UBC launches training course on Indigenous understanding for faculty and staff

Dana-Lyn Mackenzie speaking to hundreds of attendees at UBC for the Orange Shirt Day intergenerational march. (Photo credit: Oliver Mann)

A new course has launched on National Indigenous Peoples Day (June 21) aiming to set a baseline understanding of Indigenous matters among UBC faculty and staff.

Weaving Relations is a self-paced, online training course that explores Indigenous histories, people and contexts, as well as settler colonialism in Canada, through the lens of Indigenous-Canadian relationships. This important course is intended to transform not only individuals’ understanding of Indigenous history and issues, but also UBC systems that will enable more empathetic, thoughtful policies.

Developed jointly by the Faculty of Applied Science and the Faculty of Land and Food Systems, Weaving Relations will serve as a foundational course and the first of a three-part, forthcoming certificate in Indigenous cultural humility for UBC settler faculty and staff.

Weaving Relations course content

1. Let's Talk Language
2. Let's Talk Land
3. Retracing Histories
4. Harm is Not Historical
5. Groundwork for Growth
6. Building Our Anti-Racist Toolbox
7. In Relation

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