Indigenous Cultural Awareness Training
Providing learning opportunities that delve into First Nations, Inuit, and Métis histories
The Ocean Frontier Institute offers Indigenous Cultural Awareness Training for its researchers and staff.
The training program, entitled: The Path: Your Journey Through Indigenous Canada provides learning opportunities that delve into First Nations, Inuit, and Métis histories and stories across Canada.
The training consists of five online modules, delivered through Brightspace, and will take up to four and a half hours to complete. Certificates of completion are available for download, if desired.
The program partially meets the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Calls to Action for Canadians to receive ‘cultural competency training’ by teaching about “the history and legacy of residential schools, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Treaties and Aboriginal rights, Indigenous law, and Aboriginal-Crown relations.”
At this time, training is only available for OFI-affiliated researchers and staff.
We recommend setting aside enough time to complete the training all at once.
Dalhousie University operates in the unceded territories of the Mi’kmaw, Wolastoqey, and Peskotomuhkati Peoples. These sovereign nations hold inherent rights as the original peoples of these lands, and we each carry collective obligations under the Peace and Friendship Treaties. Section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982 recognizes and affirms Aboriginal and Treaty rights in Canada.
We acknowledge that the lands on which Memorial University’s campuses are situated are in the traditional territories of diverse Indigenous groups, and we acknowledge with respect the diverse histories and cultures of the Beothuk, Mi’kmaq, Innu, and Inuit of this province.
