Kirkness, Verna

Interview with an Aboriginal woman who has been an educator and a student for 70 years and author of Creating Space: My Live and Work in Indigenous Education. Duration: 29:53.

Interview with an Aboriginal woman who has been an educator and a student for 70 years and author of Creating Space: My Live and Work in Indigenous Education. Duration: 30:20.

Reprint two articles, one published in 1985 entitled: Indian Education: Past, Present and Future and a second published in 1998: Our Peoples' Education: Cut the Shackles, Cut the Crap and Cut the Mustard.

Outlines ten directives critical for the preservation of Indigenous language.

Essay by Verna Kirkness of the Fisher River First Nation, Manitoba, publishes report in Encyclopaedia Britannica, the first Indigenous person to do so.

Discussion of evolution of women in society, particularly in relation to Euro-Canadian concepts of equality.

Proposes options to attract and retain more Indigenous students in Canadian and American universities.

Suggests that Indigenous teachers are best able to create a learning environment that makes education relevant to the needs of children.

Advocates Aboriginal control of education with a unique approach to learning that involves Elders, networking and implementation in the community.

Lists ten types of bias: omission, defamation, disparagement, cumulative implication, lack of validity, inertia, obliteration, disembodiment, and lack of concreteness, and provides examples of prejudicial textbooks in each category.

Describes the desire to keep Aboriginal languages "protected, preserved, promoted and practiced".