1. What is the purpose of teaching Treaty Ed (specifically) or First Nations, Metis, and Inuit (FNMI) Content and Perspectives (generally) where there are few or no First Nations, Metis, Inuit peoples?
2. What does it mean for your understanding of the curriculum that “We are all treaty people”?

Blog #7

Throughout my high school career, I was always taught about Treaty Education and why it was important. This stems from the reason that where I come from there is a very high population of Indingoeus people in my community. Coming into university I always thought that everyone got the same Treat Education as I did, but that was not the case. In Education, we talk a lot about treat Ed and how we can it was incorporated in our education, and what I quickly came to learn was that this was not the case. Many people in my ed classes come from a background of little or no treaty ed in their past educational experiences. I think this is crazy. The purpose of Treaty  Ed is to make students aware of our history has affected our present and will keep affecting our future. We as a society have to learn about our past so we can except it and try to make changes for the better. If we learn about these things hopefully we can take this knowledge and make a change for the better. We as educators need to ensure that students know the impact Treaties and everything that came along with Treaties had on our ancestors and people today. We need to learn about the relationships between the Indigenous People and the settlers.

We hear the statement ” We are all Treaty People”  very often. When I first heard this I really didn’t understand what it meant. I always thought that Treaties just affected Indigenous people and really had no effect on settlers, but this is far from the truth. Treaties affect both sides. We as settlers are still using the resources that the land gives us today. We are all living on this land, we are all still benefiting from this land, and we both entered this agreement making us all one.