Textbook Earth – UM Today

October 10, 2017 —

EVERY COURSE WE DO, we teach about healthy and sustainable relationships with the world around you and with your non-human relatives,” says Niigaan Sinclair, associate professor and graduate program director with the department of Native Studies.

“I would say that everything we do here [at the department] has to do, in some part, with the earth itself,” says Sinclair.

Indigenous education is a more holistic approach to learning that sees the earth itself as a knowledge keeper. Sinclair acknowledges that books are an important element of learning — but they’re not the only element.