Good day,

This blog post will be focusing on the dark injustices of Indigenous people in the past, and their road to rights throughout our history.  We are part of the reconciliation, and this course helps us achieve the goal of creating an even playing field for all Canadians.

How might the acknowledgement of rights impact Indigenous peoples now and in the future?

We began this project by first understanding what we were creating, and an example of what Ms. McWilliam envisioned for this project.  We would be creating a road to right, a timeline that showed all of the significant events that Indigenous people were affected by, ranging from the initial establishment of residential schools to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People.  Each person in our class was responsible for one of the dates, creating one infographic that covered the topic that would eventually be shown in a display case located in the hallway outside of the PLP room.

Before actually starting, we had to research and understand what we wanted to focus on, and the direction each person would like to take within this project.  We started of by creating a mini infographic on one of the topics chosen above, and I had to decided to focus on a major topic that led to the development of many more issues related to Indigenous people, the establishment of the first residential school in 1831.  This was the second topic of our timeline, and marked the beginning of the mistreatment of Indigenous children.  I believe that I did a great job in encapsulating the key ideas in only one page whilst still keeping it visually appealing.  After finishing this aspect, we focused more on building our knowledge on things like the United Declaration of Rights on the Indigenous People (UNDRIP) and learning about Indigenous woman’s rights.  I built a craft document that encapsulates all of the research that I had done in this project, and all key information needed to know.

https://christianl.craft.me/RoadToRights

Later down the line, I realized that I really liked this topic, and had built a large amount of research regarding the topic.  I decided to stick with this idea, and continue down the same path as before.

This slideshow shows off all of the different revisions made before finally creating a version that I was proud off.  They were mostly minor changes, but definitely added to the overall product.

This beginning of BCFP has already allowed for me to understand the part we play in reconciliation.  We as a collective are part of the long journey that Canada has to walk in order to regain the trust in Indigenous people, and Canadians have a responsibility to learn about the injustices we made in the past.  The best way in recognizing that we as a collective was wrong, is to educate our future generations to prevent another mistake like this to be repeated again in the future.  This course spreads awareness, and allows us to break the cycle of trauma that has been led throughout our generations.

Overall, this project was a great start to the course.  I really enjoyed creating infographics, and Ms. McWilliam was able to summarize the point very well.  It was rather short, but it served as an introductory to this course.  The creation of the panel outside went well, and I think passerbyers will look at it whilst going to their next class.

And of course,

Thanks so much for reading!

-Chris