Learning From Place:

Ways that reinhabitation and decolonization are introduced throughout Learning From Place: A Return to Traditional Mushkegowuk Ways of Knowing are as follows: 

• Renaming and reclaiming locations (benefits youth by introducing and increasing the probability of seeing and bringing more Cree concepts into their lives).
• Sharing knowledge and understanding between youth and elders provides valuing traditional territory, leading projects, becoming connected with nature and the importance of the connection for intellectual, emotional, social, physical, and spiritual development within children.
• Both reinhabitation and decolonization are interconnected within each other.
• Inserting and introducing the Cree language into different activities/ documents helps attention to be drawn to traditional territory creating relationships, joining communities, and also creating a historical identity. 

Personally, these ideas have been adapted into my life by learning about Indigenous history throughout my high school career, as well as both being enrolled in Indigenous and a Cree language class during my first year of university in 2018. In the future, I will be able to introduce these ideas and concepts within my classroom, teaching students to respect and incorporate Indigenous history and ideas in both their learning and everyday lives when attending class. Assisting students by understanding how to connect with nature, self, treaty land, etc., will be an important topic within the classroom.