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If only we could understand how students make sense of their natural world, we could design a science curriculum so that science makes sense to all students. [1] Until relatively recently, science educators taught science from the perspective of...
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Tammy Robertson, External Relations Manager for the City of Kamloops has an ambitious goal: for the City of Kamloops to become a role model for...
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Agility, strength, balance, reflexes, hand-eye coordination, accuracy, strategy, intuition, and patience. These are skills Indigenous hunters and...
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Of the most spoken languages in the world, English is third after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. But English is the most commonly spoken second...
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In January 2019, a situation arose in northern BC that brought to the public’s attention the fact that some Indigenous communities have two forms of...
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Cultural tourism is one of the largest and fastest-growing tourism markets globally. The urge to experience another culture or learn about another...
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In August 2018, the federal government announced it would declare a federal statutory holiday to mark the legacy of the residential school system....
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The definition of “myth”, according to the Oxford Canadian Dictionary, is “a widely held but false notion.” When it comes to the topic of Indigenous...
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A reader recently asked us a question about talking sticks. We changed the question a little so as to preserve the confidentiality of the questioner.
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Edwin Cook was born in Alert Bay, the home of the Namgis First Nations in 1897. He was the fifth of 16 children born to Jane and Stephen Cook. Jane...
