Indigenous Relationship to the Land

Indigenous worldviews and traditional ecological knowledge. As well as the historical impacts of settlement.

 

The above link will take you to the website of Indigenous Canada, a 12-lesson Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) that explores Indigenous histories and contemporary issues in Canada. From an Indigenous perspective, this course explores key issues facing Indigenous peoples today from a historical and critical perspective highlighting national and local Indigenous-settler relations. Topics for the 12 lessons include the fur trade and other exchange relationships, land claims and environmental impacts, legal systems and rights, political conflicts and alliances, Indigenous political activism, and contemporary Indigenous life, art and its expressions.

You can sign up for this course and take it for free or, for a small tuition fee, you can receive a certificate of completion once you have finished the 12 modules