Join the Intercollegiate Decolonization Network for two virtual workshops with Kanien’kehá:ka educator Fran Beauvais, as part of the IDN’s Accountability Workshop series. 

The IDN Accountability Workshops provide opportunities for Cégep faculty, staff and students to learn from First Nations, Inuit and Métis advocates and knowledge keepers about ethical engagement with Indigenous communities, respectfully teaching Indigenous content and responding to calls to action and principles of the Indigenous Education Protocol, TRC and Viens Commissions, National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Report and other best practices frameworks. We start with acknowledging our responsibilities to the traditional custodians of this territory.

Fran Beauvais is a Kanien’kehá:ka educator based in Kahnawake. She is an advisor at the First Nations Regional Adult Education Centre, member of Dawson College’s Indigenous Education Council and consultant for Indigenizing initiatives in Quebec schools, colleges and universities.

Session 1: Friday November 6 from 10:00 am-12:00 pm

Haudenosaunee ways – Learning from the custodians of this territory
Kanien’kehá:ka values and vision, tradition and innovation, ongoing struggles and paths forward

Session 2: Wednesday November 25 from 10:00 am-12:00 pm

Walking with care: Respectful living on Kanien’kehá:ka territory
What does it mean to be a guest on these lands? What are the responsibilities of guests? How can guests enact that responsibility? How can teachers teach this awareness and responsibility to students of diverse backgrounds?

The Intercollegiate Decolonization Network (IDN) is an informal grassroots collective composed of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Cégep staff, professionals, teachers, and students from English-language Cégeps in the Tio’tia:ke (Montreal) area, as well as Indigenous partners from local communities.

• Registration is not required
• Contact Julia Lijeron for session Zoom links.