Thank you Dr. Bear and your team for an inspirational course. I have thoroughly enjoyed my travels through it and have found myself abashed over my previous unawareness to this critical situation. As a retired teacher-librarian I wish I had taken this course sooner in order to assist my thousands of students in their knowledge of Canada's Indigenous peoples. Your information has inspired me to continue in my quest for learning in this area.

Absolutely feel honoured to have the opportinnity to access this course. I was in grade school in the 70's and 80's and did not learn any of this important knowledge about the history for the peoples of this land. Thank you so much for making this course so informative, easy to understand and full of so many wonderful stories and incredible art! I am sharing this knowledge and this course to family and friends. Again Thank you so much 🙏🏼

This was a well thought out and presented course on a topic that should be included in school curriculm throughout Canada and beyond. Without an appreciation of the Indigenous community, people will continue to perpetuate unsubstantiated stereotypes and support systematic oppression, rather then act with tolerance, understanding, empathy and respect that every member of the global community deserve. Very proud to have completed this course!

Every Federal, Provincial, Regional, and Municipal Public Servant should take the class. Every citizen and immigrant to this country should take this class to be accepted as citizen. What it is written in the Discovery Canada booklet is far from enough, and present a colonial view of indigenous culture. Thank you for making this class accessible to us. I learned a great deal and I hope I can learn even more about Indigenous people in Canada.

I enjoyed the course content and felt it gave me a more broader perspective on Canada's colonial past and present. I has helped me to feel the sadness of the past and given me hope about the future of Indigenous peoples and the important and growing role they have to play in Canada. I really enjoyed many parts of the course but especially beginning to learn about the diversity of the Indigenous communities. And the glimpse of native artists.

Really enjoyed the course, one of the better ones that I have participated in. There is so much heart and soul embedded within the information and the outline/platform and how it was delivered. I really, really enjoyed the music and the art, as well as the reality of colonialism and information from history regarding residential schools, and various other aspects from history. Thank you for creating such a beautiful course in so many ways.

I was actually captivated to have myself enrolled in this course becaue of the discovery of mass grave of Indigenous Children in Canada. I was intrigued of the bleak colonial remnants that still pervade and affect the lives of thousands of Indigenous peoples there. This course is presented in a multi-perspective approach which emphasizes how the encounter of European powers in their land can be fully understood in the eyes of the natives.

A real eye opener. Great knowledge to have. Perhaps more unity with chapter topics. Ie. Enfranchised women, Inuit on its own, haida on its own etc.

Educational easy to understand love the music in the chapters.

P.s. I now know why my mother in law wasn't buried on reserve. Thank you as we try to find answers and family from my husband's side as he was scooped in the 60's and adopted to a white family.

Take care and keep doing what you do.

Excellent course, I really enjoyed learning more about the Indigenous peoples of Canada. It was especially important to learn more about the full history of settlers, from first contact through the development of current relationships and ongoing challenges. I highly recomend this course and think everyone should sign up, this is our history and we dont have enough included in our current curicculum to be truley informed/enlightened.

Laura

Thank you for putting together a wonderful course. Informative, comprehensive, it was a real eye-opener for me - a settler descendent. Born in 1957, I am staggered by how much of this was unknown to me - and ashamed. Thank you. It is only through knowledge that we can move forward, together. I recommend this course strongly to anyone wishing to be a true Canadian, founded on knowing and acknowledging, and including our true Canadian roots.

An absolutely amazing introduction to the history and peoples native to Canada. I learned so much about how indigenous people view the environment and settlers; and how Canadian laws and actions have specifically impacted indigenous people. This course should be required teaching at every North American university to promote good citizenship and an understanding of what indigenous people have gone through and are still dealing with today.

I found the course informative and disturbing in the fact that Indigenous peoples were subjected to the treatment by people arriving in Canada, and even today they are having to battle for their rights. The people presenting the information were very well prepared.

Also the idea that we should be caretakers of the land and sky's, not just taking but protecting, also the community concept of the community as a whole supporting everyone.

Thank you so much for this opportunity to learn much more of the history of Canada's colonial past. I think learning this in middle school or even before that would be so beneficial for understanding the issues of today and reduce and hopefully remove the prejudice some individuals continue to feel through sheer ignorance. I do not remember learning much about our indigenous peoples when I was in school during the 1950s. Thank you again

This course was truly eye-opening on all things Indigenous People, Culture, Customs, Traditions and Rights. The videos and recap reading summaries at the end were done in such professional and engaging fashion. I have such a more solid understanding and background of Indigenous struggles and such great appreciation for their culture, customs and traditions. Would highly recommend this course to anyone interested in bettering themselves.

This was an amazing course - so rich with content (written, videos, media) and has been enlightening and valuable. I've enjoyed all of it and would highly recommend it for anyone who cares about the truth of what happened to Canada's indigenous population, and learn how we can move forward and be a part of reconciliation and progress. It's so important to understand the past and present so that we can work towards a better future for all.

This course is filled with engaging material, hopeful, and extremely disturbing content. I experienced an array of emotions going through this course. Now that I have completed it, my learning will continue. Thank you so much to all of the participants who made this happen. Everyone should have access to free education and I am so thankful that I have the means and priveledge to have had this incredible experience. Many heartfelt thanks.

This was an excellent course! All of the presenters and speakers were exceptional and the material was presented clearly and concisely. I found the course content to be well organized and immensely interesting. Once I started learning, I was eager to keep going and this course has really inspired me to learn more about the Indigenous Peoples of my country. Thank you so much for offering this important, insightful and inspiring class!

I learnt SO much and hope to maintain it all. So much content, I want to keep the class notes to reference again and again. An important peace is there are many subjects in this course that I am wanting to learn more indebt, and plan to pursue. The media format chosen to present the material was excellent! As a student the content was presented in a way for us to learn and observe, understand what is being taught. Thank you! Mar Howe

So helpful, thank you! I already was inclined toward indigenous ways of thinking and being, but this course has inspired me MASSIVELY with the resilience and creativity and wisdom and patience and strength of how indigenous people have participated in Canadian life in the face of white ignorance and oppression. I am so sorry for my part in white supremacy, and thank you for continuing as you have so that, hopefully, I and we can wake up.

Because this course was free I was able to learn many important lessons to help understand the challenges facing Indigenous peoples. I Learned about the injustices of the past and how they are affecting indigenous rights still today. These lessons should be in our Canadian school curriculum so that the history that our children are learning is true. Thank you for providing this as a free course I would not have been able to otherwise.

This course was really well done and certainly stimulates thought, discussion, and a desire to learn more in certain areas. Thank you!

My one constructive suggestion would be to minimize the number of quiz questions that are written in the negative form. They make the questions very confusing and rather than test knowledge, they test the ability of the learner to manipulate the question, information and the choices into a negative form.

Thank you for the well-organized informative course about Indigenous Canada. Although it was a short course, I learned a lot about the culture and history of Indigenous peoples in Canada. The course helped me gaining a better understanding about the Indigenous people and with the enhanced understanding through this course, I am confident that I would be able to connect and relate better with the Indigenous people I come across. Thank you.

Really fantastic course for anyone looking to gain knowledge of Indigenous culture and the colonization of Canada. Through lessons on culture and Indigenous ways of engaging in economy, politics, etc. I was truly introduced to a new mindset and way of looking at the world. I so appreciate that this is an Indigenous led and taught course, and have thoroughly enjoyed learning more about the original inhabitants and caretakers of this land.

This course has opened my eyes to relevant issues facing indigenous peoples of Canada from the Native perspective. It challenged many of my understandings of history and contemporary history from the "settler" eyes of my own upbringing. I have a lot of work to do to continue to challenge and ferret out the long held beliefs that continue to colonize and marginalize the people in my community, country and world. Thanks for the experience.

This was a great course as now I am hungry to learn more about Indigenous people as I have been told by my birthfather that I am related to Gabriel Dumont. I have been scared to express my heritage as being Metis as I have enlisted in the Canadian Armed Forces in 1989 and served 30 years and the whole time not wanting anyone to know that I was indigenous. This course has shown me what we as a Nation have suffered and now I want to know