Canada has begun the process of giving itself back to the natives, beginning with its university system.
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...universities across Canada are “indigenizing” — a new, elastic term that means everything from drawing more aboriginal students and faculty members onto campuses built largely for white settlers, to infusing those stodgy Western institutions with aboriginal belief systems and traditional knowledge.
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It won't be easy, what with all the reading that goes on in universities.
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...Peter Stoicheff, the university’s president, recognizes the challenges.
“Universities are so inherently white and Western, when you start to push against it, you realized how intractable a lot of that is,” Mr. Stoicheff said.
“Everything is based on reading stuff,” he explained.
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But resistance is futile.
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Last year, the academic governing body agreed that all of the 17 colleges and schools, from dentistry to engineering, should include indigenous knowledge. Once that is added to the official Learning Charter this fall, deans will be expected to fall into compliance within one to two years,
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And of course this isn't nearly enough. The natives want Canada back, and good white people like the university president are "open to debating" the issue.
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“Universities are intrinsically colonial,” said Mylan Tootoosis, 30, a doctoral student and co-chairman of the university’s Indigenous Graduate Students’ Council. “They are not set up for indigenous students. The way to solve indigenous problems is not getting a salary. Why not get our land back, get the indigenous lifestyle back?”
That’s a question that many aboriginal scholars are asking and that Mr. Stoicheff is open to debating.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/19/w...av=bottom-well
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