Fund First Nations University Now!
I arrive in Regina to find that my host is having a financial crisis, a new spin on a usual thing– my host being an institution, not just a guy.
Fund First Nations University Now!
I’ve been thinking a lot about Aboriginal people and education, of late, from those all-star cultural workers who didn’t complete high school, and carried on to change the world anyway (Bert Crowfoot, Maria Campbell both leap to mind) to the endless posters & ads in youth mags, promoting this (post-secondary education) as the best way to go. Pondering my own experiences at university, Jan 1980- fall 1982. I picked up much that was useful to me. It was not uniformly bleak, my time at school, but substantially so.
Fund First Nations University Now!
I am all for having a First Nations University of Canada, and for having it (the staff & student body) supported in a big way, by the community at large, national & international. If FNUniv goes down, it won’t be just a local loss, an inconvenience to Saskatchewan. It will be, as Jo-Ann Episkenew so movingly put it, the loss of a dream.
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