NFB Land Acknowledgement Workshop (Educators Only)

NFB Education is proud to partner with the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation to help teachers educate students about Indigenous realities during National Truth and Reconciliation Week, as well as throughout the year.

In line with this year’s theme on treaties, the NFB and the Louis Riel School Division, in Winnipeg, have teamed up to offer an activity encouraging teachers and students to create a Land Acknowledgement statement. Students will be invited to recognize not just the treaties made with Indigenous nations, but also historical and present-day wrongs and errors.

Treaties are all about human rights. Grounded in reciprocity, they lay out the terms of how Indigenous and non-Indigenous people can coexist in peace and harmony. These nation-to-nation agreements essentially paved the way to what is today known as Canada.

However, thousands of First Nations and Inuit people are still fighting to ensure that their communities get the same access to the human rights enshrined in the treaties—namely, access to clean drinking water, education and health care—as the rest of the Canadian population.

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