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Indigenous Canada – join our ‘Course Club’ as we learn and reflect together

By Manor Park Chronicle

Indigenous Canada is a 12-lesson Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) from the University of Alberta's Faculty of Native Studies. The course is offered completelty online and explores topics like the fur trade and other exchange relationships, land claims and environmental impacts, legal systems and rights, political conflicts and alliances, Indigenous political activism, and contemporary Indigenous life, art and its expressions. Photo: Karolina Grabowksa, Pexels
Indigenous Canada is a 12-lesson Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) from the University of Alberta's Faculty of Native Studies. The course is offered completelty online and explores topics like the fur trade and other exchange relationships, land claims and environmental impacts, legal systems and rights, political conflicts and alliances, Indigenous political activism, and contemporary Indigenous life, art and its expressions. Photo: Karolina Grabowksa, Pexels

Would you like to deepen your knowledge and understanding of Canada’s complex historical and contemporary relationships with First Nations, Métis and Inuit?

We welcome you to join us this spring and summer as we take the University of Alberta’s 12-lesson Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) from the Faculty of Native Studies. Entitled “Indigenous Canada,” this course is free and open to anyone. Search online for ‘Indigenous Canada Coursera’ to find the course at www.coursera.org and register. You can study at your own pace.

We are planning to host four monthly in-person discussion groups outdoors at London Terrace Park to complement our individual learning as we work through the lessons. All are welcome.

If you would like to receive email updates about the discussion group dates and times, please sign-up here: https://tinyurl.com/37uuhfb3 or email melissa@pinegumstudio.ca.

This article was written by Shoshana Freedman, Melissa Hammell and Eugenie Waters.