I don’t think anyone should graduate from university with any degree and not learn this stuff,’ says Indigenous Peoples and Media prof – The Coast
March 20, 2024
On your way up the staircase towards the journalism school, on the third floor at the University of King’s College, you pass a poster on the wall that’s larger than you. There are more of these across campus, but this one focuses on what’s through the doors at the top of the stairs. It’s Call 86 of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s 94 Calls to Action, published in 2015. It reads, “We call upon Canadian journalism programs and media schools to require education for all students on the history of Aboriginal peoples, including the history and legacy of residential schools, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Treaties and Aboriginal rights, Indigenous law, and Aboriginal-Crown relations.” Call 86 is one of three calls specific to media and reconciliation.
Trina Roache teaches “Indigenous Peoples and Media,” a new mandatory second-year course at King’s’ journalism school that was added this winter. With the addition of this new mandatory course, King’s has fulfilled its promise towards Call 86.
It reads, “We call upon Canadian journalism programs and media schools to require education for all students on the history of Aboriginal peoples, including the history and legacy of residential schools, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Treaties and Aboriginal rights, Indigenous law, and Aboriginal-Crown relations.” Call 86 is one of three calls specific to media and reconciliation.
