Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
SECTION I: IMAGINING AND SEEDING POSSIBILITIES: MODELS FOR RECONCILIATORY EDUCATION
Reflective Question
1. Growing Good Medicine: A Model of Indigenous Program Design
2. Reconciliatory Education: An Extended Infinity Model
3. Decolonizing and Transformative Learning in the Call to Action Program
4. The Relational Model for Teaching and Learning
5. Coming Full Circle
SECTION II: STORIES OF DECOLONIZING PRACTICES
Reflective Questions
PART I: STORIES OF INDIGENOUS RECLAMATION, REVITALIZATION, AND RECONNECTION
6. Lost and Then Found: A Northerner Finding Home and Community in the South
7. Planting a Story of Hope, Healing, and Transformation
8. My Life Journey Through the Four Directions
9. Setting Hope Free: Cree Leadership in Reconciliation
10. Finding Strength in Community and Culture: Applying Traditional Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit Principles and Practices to Address Contemporary Challenges
PART 2: STORIES OF RECONCILIATORY EDUCATION IN K TO 12
11. Braiding Strands of Identity, Traditional Ways, and Storytelling
12. Shaken and Stirred to the Core: Listening as a Central Act of Learning
13. Decolonizing Educator Practice in Offshore Schools
14. Navigating Barriers to Reconciliation Through Education: A Non-Indigenous Educator’s Journey of Learning
15. Heart to Heart: Indigenous Truths Taking Flight Through the Agency of Calgary Middle School Students
PART 3: STORIES OF LEARNING WITH COMMUNITY
16. From Decolonizing to Indigenizing: Learning Together How to Start from Where You Are
17. Building Bridges into Good Relations: An Early Learning Experience
18. Storied Science: Elevating Indigenous Knowledges Through Placemaking in Colonial Spaces
19. Home Is Where the Land Is: Mount Athabasca and the Mountain Métis
PART 4: STORIES OF ETHICAL ALLYSHIP
20. Growing in Relation: Reconciling Our Learning Spirits Together
21. Dismantling the Colonial Lens: Emotional Commitment as a Path to Reconciliation
22. Leaning into the Discomfort of Transformative Empathy: One Settler Educator’s Journey of Unlearning
23. Exploring Motivations for Settler Engagement
Epilogue
