Indigenous education

The labour crisis no one talks about is in First Nation schools.

“It's just not an education story — it's a social story,” Chief Russell Wesley told Canada's National Observer.

Indigenous studies have matured into powerful mechanisms for ensuring a level of societal knowledge and practice for Indigenous graduates that is unprecedented since colonization.

It's our responsibility to make sure teachers are equipped to teach the truth and acknowledge the important role schools play in reconciliation, write Linda Isaac and John Estabillo.

Twenty years ago, only 30 per cent of Nova Scotia's Mi'kmaq students were graduating from high school. Today, that number stands at 90 per cent — the highest on-reserve graduation rate in the country.