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This major assignment asks you to critically examine how
Indigenous racism operates within your profession or field (health, social work, education, justice, planning, design, community work, etc.). Drawing on course readings, Indigenous scholarship, legal cases, films, and lectures, you will analyze:

· Systemic racism

· Colonial systems and policies

· Stereotyping

· Trauma narratives

· Structural violence

Your assignment will demonstrate
how future practitioners can take responsibility for creating ethical, culturally safer, and relationally accountable alternatives.

Your work should highlight
both the harms that exist and the possibilities for transformation, drawing on the voices, scholarship, and leadership of Indigenous Peoples.

The goals of this assignment are to help you:

· Recognize how colonial structures shape your field.

· Identify how Indigenous Peoples experience racism and harm in professional settings.

· Understand your profession’s historical and ongoing role in producing anti-Indigenous racism.

· Engage meaningfully with Indigenous scholarship, legal cases, films, guest lectures, and the assigned course readings.

· Reflect on your responsibilities as a future practitioner who aims to work with integrity and respect.

· Imagine pathways toward Indigenous resurgence, safety, relational accountability, and ethical practice.

· Critically examine, reflect on, and integrate course materials to support your analysis (this assignment is
not simply descriptive).

Your paper must address the following components:

Describe specific instances, patterns, or systemic issues. These may include (but are not limited to):

· Racial bias or stereotyping

· Discriminatory policies

· Inadequate or harmful care/service delivery

· Exclusion, erasure, or misrepresentation

· Trauma narratives that frame Indigenous Peoples as deficient rather than targeted by oppression

· Barriers to education, employment, health, justice, or safety

Important: Draw on
real cases, course materials, documented histories, or your own profession-specific knowledge. AI-generated examples are not permitted.

Analyze how
broader structures, not just individual actions, produce and uphold anti-Indigenous racism. You may consider:

· Legislation (e.g., Indian Act, Métis and Inuit legislation, child welfare policies, criminal justice approaches)

· Institutional practices or professional norms

· Funding structures, credentialing systems, or governance models

· Intergenerational trauma resulting from residential schools, land dispossession, and forced removals

· Curriculum, professional standards, or workplace cultures

Note: Link individual examples to
systemic, historical, and structural factors, and reflect your own thinking and engagement with course readings and lectures. AI-generated interpretation is not allowed.

LEAVE THIS SECTION OUT I’LL DO IT MYSELF

Discuss what
ethical responsibility looks like in your field. Consider:

· How do you understand your role as a future practitioner

· Accountability to Indigenous Peoples and communities

· The difference between performative allyship and meaningful action

· What relational accountability requires in your profession

· Responsibilities to unlearn harmful norms and practices

Note: This section requires
genuine personal reflection grounded in the sources used in your paper. AI tools cannot generate or shape this content.

Offer recommendations grounded in
Indigenous knowledge, resurgence, culturally safe practice, and ethical practice. Your recommendations should show:

· Respect for Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination

· Awareness of Indigenous approaches to wellness, justice, learning, community, or land

· Understanding of trauma-informed and culturally safer delivery of care

· Commitment to relational accountability rather than checklist-based compliance

Note: Suggestions should be
realistic, informed, and supported by examples from scholarship and/or practice.

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Length: Approximately 1000 words (4 pages, double-spaced)

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Format: Times New Roman or similar readable font, 12 pt; double-spaced; page numbers

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Citations: Use APA 7th edition

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Tone: Academic but reflective; grounded in relational accountability

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Clarity: Organized, well-developed, and directly engages the assignment criteria

Rubric: Available in the D2L shell

This assignment emphasizes
critical thinking, ethical reflection, and engagement with course materials.

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Generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT)
cannot be used to generate content, analysis, or design decisions.

· Using AI to replace thinking, writing, analysis, or synthesis
undermines learning objectives and may result in academic integrity concerns.

· If unsure whether a particular technology use is appropriate,
consult your instructor in advance.

Week 1 – Jan 15: Entering the Eastern Door – Setting the Circle
Focus: Course overview, establishing class culture, and protocols for shared learning.

Topics & Activities:

· Overview of the course outline, assignments, and class culture

· Development of class protocols and commitment to self and others while sharing space

Readings & Media:

Week 2 – Jan 22: Treaties, the Indian Act, and Political Relations
Focus: Understanding treaty relations, governance, and professional implications.

Topics & Activities:

· Treaty relations and the Indian Act

· Inuit governance

· Métis political identity

· Professional implications: Non-insured health benefits and other funding sources

Readings & Media:

· Deer, K. (2019, August 30).
Some First Nations tighten membership criteria in response to Bill S-3’s extension of Indian status. CBC News

· Reference:
As to whether “Indians” includes in s. 91(24) of the B.N.A. Act includes Eskimo inhabitants of Quebec, [1939] S.C.R. 104; [1939] 2 D.L.R. 417

Week 5 – Feb 12: Settler Colonialism, Land Dispossession, and Cultural Disconnection
Focus: Impact of colonization on kinship, culture, and representation

Topics & Activities:

· How colonization disrupted kinship and culture

· Portrayals of Indigenous Peoples as colonial tools

· Land rights, settler colonialism, dispossession

· Residential Schools, Sixties/Millennial Scoop, Day Schools

· Cultural “defeathering”

· Representation and stereotypes

Readings & Media:

· Legault, G. (2022). From (re)ordering to reconciliation: Early settler colonial divide and conquer policies in Canada.
Journal of Indigenous Social Development, 11(2), 44–66

· Matheson, K., Seymour, A., Landry, J., Ventura, K., Arsenault, E., & Anisman, H. (2022). Canada’s Colonial Genocide of Indigenous Peoples: A Review of the Psychosocial and Neurobiological Processes Linking Trauma and Intergenerational Outcomes.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(11), 6455

Important Dates:

· Family Day (University Closed): Monday, Feb 16, 2026

· Fall Study Week (No Classes): Tuesday, Feb 17 – Friday, Feb 20, 2026

Week 6 – Feb 26: Racism, Genocide, and Structural Violence – Understanding Anti-Indigenous Racism
Readings & Media:

· Browne, A. J., Lavoie, J. G., McCallum, M. J. L., & Canoe, C. B. (2022).
Addressing anti-Indigenous racism in…

· WRITE ON CHILD WEFARE IN INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES

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