b'COVER STORYthe International Indigenous Education Conference. We want to bring forward the brilliance that Indigenous educators have and carry with them. Thats part of their Nationhood, part of who they are as Indigenous People and we want to highlight that to help our kids in schools, says Scribe. I started Think Indigenous because, as an educator, we would be going to different conferences and it was always the same thing over and over again. It was never the impactful truth that needed to be told. Scribe wanted to create a conference that was relevant to identity and to creating space for Indigenous knowledge to be the foundation of education systems. Into traditional Indigenous teachings thatIndigenous teachings, the Moose Hide his community, like many others, therethey may otherwise miss in standardCampaign has started a movement are only a handful of language speakersschool curriculums. Our childrenthat calls upon Indigenous and non-left. Every day, essentially we are losingthat are waking up this morning withIndigenous men to stand up against textbooks forever when we lose some ofEnglish as their first language insteadviolence towards Indigenous women [our] Elders and our knowledge keepers,of their Indigenous language, that areand girls. The campaign started in 2011, says Scribe.not knowing the traditional names ofwhen father-daughter co-founders Raven When the COVID-19 pandemic shutthe places in their communities, Scribeand Paul Lacerte were on a hunting trip down schools in March, Scribe andexplains. We have to pull that back andalong B.C.s Highway of Tears. I had other educators volunteered their timeremind ourselves to think through anthis idea that maybe we could use some to launch an online program throughIndigenous lens in all things. of the medicine and beauty that the land Facebook and YouTube. The goal was tohad to offer us, and that mooses life educate students from K-8 using shortThe Moose Hide Campaign that they gave for us, and use the moose digital lessons that introduced studentsIn a different approach to employinghide as a symbol for people to wear, to www.afn.ca 73'