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examines a child welfare policy in Canada that began in 1951 in which Indigenous children were taken from their homes and put into the care of non-Indigenous families

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it explains the systems of knowledge and understanding that enabled the Haida to use the resources of their islands sustainably from one generation to the next over millennia

Visioning a Mi’kmaw Humanities: Indigenizing the Academy Philosophy TraditionalMarie Ann Battiste, Mi'kmaq, is an author and educator and has been honoured with multitude of awards for her work and research. Since the Renaissance, liberal education has as its core tradition a Eurocentric multidisciplinary humanism the study of literature, art, philosophy and history grounded in ancient Greek and Latin texts. In what may be termed cognitive imperialism, the academy has largely ignored Aboriginal perspectives of humanity. In this