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Student volunteers prepare for a Kairos Blanket Exercise at Edmonton City Hall in 2016. The Exercise was created as an interactive way of learning Indigenous history.

Needs Improvement: Educators make progress on Indigenous curriculum, but more work to do

Posted by By KAIROS Canada December 14, 2018Posted inArticlesNo Comments
In the wake of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s call to include more study on Indigenous issues in school curriculum, it appears educators across the country are taking the recommendations…
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Island Pacific School students participate in the KAIROS Blanket Exercise. Photo by ISLAND PACIFIC SCHOOL

“We’re definitely not the best nation in the world,” school children learn about colonialism

Posted by By KAIROS Canada December 5, 2018Posted inArticlesNo Comments
“Getting to the truth was hard, but getting to reconciliation will be harder. It requires that the paternalistic and racist foundations of the residential school system be rejected as the…
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At University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine, leaders take part in KAIROS Blanket Exercise that teaches Indigenous history and trauma

Posted by By KAIROS Canada September 27, 2018Posted inArticlesNo Comments
  Photo by Liam Mitchell: Department chairs and senior leaders in the Faculty of Medicine participate in the KAIROS Blanket Exercise.   Dr. Lisa Richardson, co-lead of Indigenous Medical Education in…
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800 students learn to “combat racism and ignorance” through the KAIROS blanket exercise

800 students learn to “combat racism and ignorance” through the KAIROS blanket exercise

Posted by By KAIROS Canada August 20, 2018Posted inArticlesNo Comments
The blankets represent land in Canada and the participants are the Indigenous people or European settlers Photo: Students were placed into groups and were asked to pick and sit on a…
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Painting features an Onondaga Gustoweh (headgear) by Onondaga artist Josephine M. Cook for the Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign. Posters can be purchased online.

Witness to Injustice: The KAIROS Blanket Exercise

Posted by By KAIROS Canada August 8, 2018Posted inArticlesNo Comments
  Photo: This painting features an Onondaga Gustoweh (headgear) by Onondaga artist Josephine M. Cook for the Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign. Posters can be purchased online. This article was…
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Instructors at the RCMP Academy in Regina, Sask., are trained on how to do the blanket exercise.

Why this blanket exercise is now essential training for RCMP cadets

Posted by By KAIROS Canada June 26, 2018Posted inArticlesNo Comments
The exercise synthesizes 500 years of colonization under the observation of a local Indigenous elder.  This past winter, the RCMP introduced a new educational tool at its Regina training academy:…
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Blanket exercise coordinator educates non-Indigenous people about shared history of Canada

Posted by By KAIROS Canada June 22, 2018Posted inArticlesNo Comments
Susan Beaudin knows about the power of a blanket. The educator from Cowessess First Nation is a residential school survivor. She is also the KAIROS Blanket Exercise Coordinator for Saskatchewan.…
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KAIROS Blanket Exercise in Alaska, June 2018

The KAIROS Blanket Exercise goes to Alaska

Posted by By KAIROS Canada June 21, 2018Posted inArticlesNo Comments
Interest in the KAIROS Blanket Exercise (KBE) is growing beyond Canada’s borders In late May I traveled to Anchorage, Alaska with Lillian Underwood, an Indigenous KBE trainer and facilitator based…
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KAIROS Blanket Exercise in Caledon

The KAIROS Blanket Exercise comes to Caledon

Posted by By KAIROS Canada April 30, 2018Posted inArticlesNo Comments
PHOTO: CI-BLANKET23 TORONTO, ON - NOVEMBER 23 - As part of its endeavour to get students to learn history from an indigenous perspective, the Toronto Catholic school board has introduced…
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‘Blanket exercise’ at Totem Hall teaches reconciliation through participation

KAIROS Blanket Exercise at Totem Hall teaches reconciliation through participation

Posted by By KAIROS Canada April 24, 2018Posted inArticlesNo Comments
Aim is to bring learning tool to Squamish classrooms, says organizer How do you teach a painful history and keep hearts open? On Friday night the Squamish Multifaith Association, Squamish…
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