REGINA — Indigenous leaders and teachers are raising concerns after Saskatchewan’s education minister suggested there might be too much “infusion” of First Nations history in school curriculum. “One thing one might discuss, though, is should there be a specific course on … Indigenous history, history of residential schools, and treaties … as one specific course in a high-school-level course, for example, as opposed to maybe more infusion into social studies,” she said. The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations said treaty rights need to be taught throughout classrooms. Eyre said Wednesday that Saskatchewan was the first province in Canada to mandate treaty education in schools and that won’t change. The minister said she was talking about a review that is set to take place for the high-school curriculum.

Source: National Post November 08, 2017 22:05 UTC