Name: The Blanket Exercise
Start: 2025-05-10T09:45:00-0600
End: 2025-05-10T11:00:00-0600

Welcome to the 2025 Outdoor Learning Conference

Saturday May 10, 2025 9:45am - 11:00am MDT

The KAIROS Blanket Exercise (KBE) is an experiential teaching tool that explores the historic and contemporary relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in the land we now know as Canada.

The Blanket Exercise is based on using Indigenous methodologies and the goal is to build understanding about our shared history as Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada by walking through pre-contact, treaty-making, colonization and resistance. Everyone is actively involved as they step onto blankets that represent the land, and into the role of First Nations, Inuit and later Métis peoples. By engaging on an emotional and intellectual level, the Blanket Exercise effectively educates and increases empathy."

Educators, please note, depending on the discussion the workshop could go, a bit overtime.

Speakers

Jacenta Marina

Indigenous Education, Mckim School (Kimberley, BC)

As a passionate and experienced Indigenous educator, who is a member of the Blood tribe, of the Blackfoot nation, I believe in establishing and maintaining respectful relationships, with Elders and knowledge keepers, indigenous families, students, parents, and school staff. I have... Read More →

Rosella Many Bears

Kainai Blood Tribe

I'm fluent in the Blackfoot language; it is my first language. I'm from the Kainai tribe and a survivor of St. Mary's residential school. I've recently retired from the Kainai board of education. I taught for 25 years. I taught at the Cutswood school, a Blackfoot language emersion... Read More →

Saturday May 10, 2025 9:45am - 11:00am MDT
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Indigenous Ways of Knowing Workshop

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Jacenta Marina

Rosella Many Bears

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