Indigenous Literature: A Doorway to Decolonization

Course description

This session will focus on using Indigenous literature and its genres to engage in conversations about decolonization. The first part of the workshop will present a brief history of Indigenous publications and will introduce a few authors. The second part of the session will be a hands-on workshop where participants will be invited to work in small groups to envision and create methods to work with Indigenous stories, poetry, fiction and graphic novels to decolonize their classrooms. A list of resources will be provided.

This workshop may appeal more to middle and high school teachers but it can be adapted to younger age groups.