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Many of us, especially in Canada, are used to having a host open a lecture or an event with an Indigenous land-acknowledgement, but I will declare this is the best one I have ever heard and it comes from Dr. Vanessa Andreotti, brand new Dean of Education at University of Victoria, Vancouver Is. (not far from my territories where I live now in Nanaimo, BC). Even if you listen to the first 2 min. and 30 secs. you get a good idea where this Indigenous-based thinker/leader educator is going and the spirit she brings to the field of Education in general. This is a real new experience for me and so timely! The spirit of fearlessness infuses this 2 min. and 30 sec. clip...

 

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