An indigenous-non-indigenous collaborative experience at the college level in Quebec

Abstract

"In recent years, inquiry reports across Canada have detailed the devastating consequences of many of the policies and decisions faced by First Nations, Métis and Inuit. Each of these reports, whether issued by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2015), the Commission des droits de la personne et de la jeunesse, the Viens Commission (2019) or the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (2019), has made various recommendations, some of which specifically target higher education institutions. Despite these publications, a number of tragic situations that are reported from time to time in the media and on social networks, show that there is still an imperative to act in order to prevent history from repeating itself. By way of example, and never to be forgotten, let us recall the intolerable conditions that led to the deaths of Joyce Echaquan on September 28, 2020; Raphael André on January 17, 2021; Elisapie Pootoogook on November 12, 2021; and the Manawan baby on April 4, 2022." -- AQPC