Group 3

Christina Ellis
Menina Colangelo
Stephanie Hirose
Sara Peerless
Nancy Valiquette
Ingrid Besmer

Main Points:

Respect for cultural differences

Working to disrupt binary of self/Other, how to do it and working towards it. Addressing what has happened is one way to move forward and understand. Shared experience of oppression, everyone experiences it, but differently. Responsibility? It is not only the responsibility to aboriginal people to share their history, we have to all question it, and critically analzy where we stand in this history.

We need to create spaces where we can create critical connections and collaborate in both research and practice. Working as a team to chart new possibilities and build alliances. The idea that a “treaty” is an agreement from both sides. Equal responsibility.

Trying to emerge yourself in someones shoes, challenge what we think we know. Being interactive with each other and the different perspectives.

Interrogating self and other, digging deeper and questioning what that means. Finding your positionality and where you stand.

“A practice can be anti-oppressive in one situation and quite oppressive in another. Or it can be simultaneously oppressive and anti-oppressive” (24). How do you create an approach that is not anti-oppressive? Where is the common ground.

“Pseudo-identity” (26): Activity, putting yourself in someone else's shoes to understand.

Using the Reflection Chart (the layer cake) Questioning what is “normal”? Not just making assumptions according to what you believe or where taught. Individual experiences, if friends live like you, and this creates the term of normalicy. Also, if different, where do you fit in this new term? The layout of the article reflects the cake chart, going from the top to the bottom. Magolda's Model This article is a stage four article.

How much do we really know? Where does our knowledge of colonialism come from? From who's perspective? Who's voice is being ignored?

Goal of making the uncomfortable, comfortable. From there, coming up with a reflective discourse, where we are experiencing self-reflectivity.

The question of privilage. "the tendency to not name, know, or otherwise mark settler privilage".