In Treaty Relationship is a learning community grounded in relationship, reciprocity, and land-based learning. Developed in partnership with partners Manyhorses High School and Brown Bear Woman Centre, this initiative invites Mount Royal University faculty to engage with reconciliation as a living and ongoing treaty relationship—one that is practiced through listening, learning, and contributing towards mutual flourishing.

Faculty participants will join a cohort of colleagues in a shared learning journey alongside Elders, educators, and students from Tsuut’ina. Guided by Elder Bruce Starlight and members of the Starlight Family, the learning community will begin at the Brown Bear Woman Centre, where participants will learn about Tsuut’ina history, worldview, and contemporary ways of life. These teachings will ground subsequent Elder-led, land-based learning experiences held in relationship with students and teachers from Manyhorses High School.

Throughout the term, participants will deepen relationships through shared meals, collaborative art-making, and storytelling. Faculty will also welcome Manyhorses High School students to the MRU campus, creating space for connection, mutual learning, and imagining pathways into post-secondary education.

This learning community has been developed through ongoing dialogue with Tsuut’ina partners and reflects a shared commitment to moving forward together. Faculty who participate will be supported with guidance from facilitator Dr. Joshua Hill and will contribute to building MRU’s collective capacity for Indigenization, reconciliation, and relational ways of knowing and teaching.

Faculty are invited to join this learning community with openness, humility, and a willingness to learn in relationship—on the land, in community, and alongside one another.