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This Introductory Course should be a mandatory part of the Canadian Curriculum. While I personally found some units dry, yet undoubtedly important, ie. Units on Treaties, other units were extremely interesting. Of course, this depends on where your interests lay. If you enjoy politics and history, these units will be stimulating for you.

Many emotions are evoked throughout the course as there is learning on residential schools and the mistreatment of Indigenous women. Personally, I struggle with reconciliation, as I am not sure how Indigenous Folks will forgive and move on from the atrocities they have suffered at the hands of the "settlers".

I thoroughly enjoyed units on Storytelling and Unit 12 about Indigenous Art. I love everything about Indigenous Art: each individual piece presents a visual of an entire storybook on a single page, with a multitude of intertwined messages. It's bright and colourful and the artist, whom we get the pleasure of listening to at the end of each unit, is gentle, passionate, expressive and creative. The anticipation of the artist's commentary at the end of each module was like a treat for me, dessert.

The three presenters are flawless. Neither of them bobbled a single word! I wonder how many "takes" it took to perfect each presentation. Fabulous work! I enjoyed the numerous interviews, the real-life photos shared throughout and the subtle music (drumming & humming) at the introduction and conclusion of each module. In fact, I would have loved an addition of one more unit on Indigenous music and celebration, inclusive of ceremonial dress. Indigenous craft was touched upon; I would have enjoyed further elaboration. I am so glad I opted to enrol in this course; it has already opened dialogue for me with my brother (who asked me to send him the link!) my eldest son of three, my partner (who is a Status Indian), and at least three of my dear friends, all of whom have close connections to Indigenous people. Thank-you for building on my limited knowledge on First Nations Peoples.

it is very good introductory program providing an overview of the history of the colonization of First Nations people. I'm interested if there are additional courses that includes other Nations and the impact and their history. I was saddened to find that some of the politicians from the 60's and on have continued in a variety of way to decimate First Nations with legislation that would take continue land, rights and "life" away from First Nations. I am so thrilled to see and witness the trajectory of First Nations getting their education that allows them to FIGHT and WIN within the Canadian Judicial and Gov't. It was something I said along time ago. The course could used additional vetting of information and how it flows..but it works .as an introduction. I especially enjoyed the Professors and speakers.. I remembered those the best. I do wish you could have shown some examples of the ART of the artists you highlighted... Also how, where, who have been able to retieve some of the art back to First Nations. Many thanks, I have soooo much to learn and look forward to additional opportunities to do so.

I will share that I always wondered how the German people who survived under the Nazi regime owned and dealt with the shame of what their gov't did to millions of Jews... I assume Shame guilt disbelief...I now have similar feelings... I can't believe so much happened in my lifetime. My deepest apologies !!! Whatever I can do, I will.. to enlighten my peers of what we've done and now witnessed to draw a blind eye to and need to acknowledge, take responsibility and hope to gawd, I don't keep doing it!

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Thank you for this brilliant opportunity for an authentic and professionally presented education of our country's untold history and my personal untold ancestry. I have known for some time that I come from Metis lineage but had no teaching or reliable source of information of what that actually meant. The information presented in this course resonated on so many levels. It was truly a learning and healing exercise.

The course content was deep, concise and presented in a consistent relatable manner. Not having a formal post secondary education I was concerned that the content would be too academic to follow but that was not the case. Some of the material did stray that way but after a couple of reviews it became clear.

I appreciated the artistic depictions of the lesson at the end of each module...very, very effective and beautifully done. It was like an instant hit of community coming together to tell the story. I imagine this would be similar to the effect of how ancestral stories were passed on. It felt good to experience that first hand.

The Canadian education system would be wise to incorporate this, or portions therein, of this content in existing school programs. Or at the very least inform students of it's existence and let them decide if they want to explore it further. I believe many non-indigenous students would be interested to understand the accurate history of Canada...and by extension similar indigenous stories worldwide.

Again, thank you to everyone involved for making this course available.