Visioning a Mi’kmaw Humanities: Indigenizing the Academy Philosophy Canada continues to deny the

Canada continues to deny the Algonquin Anishinaabeg their right to land and resources

the Wet’suwet’en struggle against pipeline development and other Indigenous-led struggles for Indigenous sovereignty and decolonization

it explains the systems of knowledge and understanding that enabled the Haida to use the resources of their islands sustainably from one generation to the next over millennia

from the Cat Lake First Nation in Northern Ontario who is taken from her family at the age of six and flown far away to residential school

whose leadership helped establish Woodland Cultural Centre's Indigenous Art exhibitions

Visioning a Mi’kmaw Humanities: Indigenizing the Academy Philosophy Canada continues to deny theMarie Ann Battiste, Mi'kmaq, is an author and educator and has been honoured with multitude of awards for her work and research. Since the Renaissance, liberal education has as its core tradition a Eurocentric multidisciplinary humanism the study of literature, art, philosophy and history grounded in ancient Greek and Latin texts. In what may be termed cognitive imperialism, the academy has largely ignored Aboriginal perspectives of humanity. In this