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Indigenous Studies for me is to be a part of helping my own culture
um revitalized their
identity and their life ways. some of the memorable experiences I have are
the interactions with the other people
and working with the elders
on I did bamatsu in
but much when for the Indigenous Studies program
is a form of developing a relationship with an elder
a traditional elder and
how it's done is through spending time with that
elder and that was one of the reasons why I
chose this program was to be able to do that because
in my community we have elder is but we
don't have any traditional elders living anymore
so we are missing
a lot of our culture there's nothing like being in the presence of someone
that really knows and
walking through those steps, so I think it's a very
valuable program I think that the department is a very caring Department
always finding ways, of making things work
out for you so that hang in there any
you work it through. The PhD program in Indigenous Studies at Trent is 1 of a
hand full of programs on this topic
globally I believe and
I think it offers an opportunity for
high level academic discussions around some really key topics
that are often sorta left under the radar
and there are a lot of other people besides indigenous people
studying indigenous knowledge and
I feel that I want to be an advocate for
that wisdom to be brought
into the world and it also has given me
a strength within my own
personal identity and
also is opened a lot of facets of
who I am as an indigenous person by being involved
with the studies. It helps to have a connection to a community
there are no other programs like this like a said besides hawaii
that you work with traditional knowledge concepts
it's a new wave a looking at things if you come into a program like this
you going to want to to definitely
want to know how to work with am
with the earth to help folks
be involved with what they're doing as knowledge
and instead of just sitting behind the desk I think that's what I value most moms
program
so there's always something and very
very intriguing, powerful
and inspiring that you you won't get bored for sure a lot of times they have
to turn things down and they feel really guilty
but I won't be able to do my reading, if I do everything else
so it's very very full program.