Lubicon Lake First Nation concept of education

• Main Author: Cardinal, Maisie
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 1996
• Subjects: Northland School Division No. 61 (Peace River; Alta.) > History; Lubicon Lake Indian Nation > Education; First Nations > Education > Alberta > Lubicon Lake Region; Alta; Indian; Lubicon Lake; First Nations
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/4635

This paper describes the concept of traditional education. Educators define traditional education as a way of life, spirituality, an act of love, wholistic, language, and culture. In economics, children learn by observing a skill like setting a snare and then actually snaring something, like a rabbit. This paper includes a history of the Lubicon Lake First Nation, history of the first Indian Mission and Northland School Division. It concludes with the idea that now is the time to develop a unique Lubicon Lake First Nation approach to education. This idea means that the First Nation school has the chance to develop their own system in conjunction with mainstream curriculum, but would include appropriate cultural concepts such as language, native spirituality and history. Education, Faculty of Curriculum and Pedagogy (EDCP), Department of Graduate