Unless you have been busy with the holidays to the point that you have not read the paper or watched the news for the past three weeks, you will have heard about Idle No More and the hunger strike of Chief Theresa Spence. Those of you who plan to teach about Treaties and First Nations, Metis and Inuit peoples, history, and knowledge this coming year (which is all Saskatchewan teachers as this is mandated by our provincial government), or racism and ongoing patriarchal colonialism, have an amazing opportunity to teach your students about a growing movement that has international support called Idle No More. There are many ways to incorporate the aims of Idle No More into your lessons and classroom/school conversations, and the Idle No More blog has a page devoted to what youth can do. Some of the many links to info about the movement...
**Idle No More (official blog): http://idlenomore1.blogspot.ca/
Saskatoon Flash Mob: http://www.mediacoop.ca/video/watch-2000-person-idlenomore-flash-mob-takes-over/15194
- Student Teachers Anti-Racism Society
- University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
- The Student Teachers Anti-Racism Society (STARS) promotes anti-racism education at the College of Education, University of Saskatchewan through the support of the College. We work collaboratively to understand, identify, and address individual and systemic racism and its interlocking forms of oppression based on gender, sexuality, ability, class, religion and other socially constructed categories. We believe that anti-racist and decolonizing education, when woven together, can create humanizing and emancipatory change for everyone.