"As educators, we know that not knowing something is not a problem; it is not wanting to learn that is a barrier.   

 (Chrona, 2022, p13)

    As Chrona explains in Wayi Wah! Indigenous Pedagogies (2022), it is important to know that we are all learners.  Due to the forces of colonization, which have repressed Indigenous stories and history, most of us have a lot to learn about Indigenous Peoples.   Indigenous people themselves, are sometimes just beginning to learn about their own history, languages and cultures because assimilationist school systems taught nothing about it, and often families were scared to share their language and culture with their children due to abuse faced at Residential schools.   

     Watch this Vimeo Video by Lenape and Potawatami educational scholar, Dr. Susan D. Dion, about "The Perfect Stranger" which is the idea that many of us think we have no connection to Indigenous People, when actually all Canadians have some kind of connection to Indigenous People, whether they realize it or not.  It's important to open our minds to the possibility that we are already connected.  If we have questions, it's important to know that we can reach out, ask questions and begin to build relationships.

   Dion also recommends listening to Thomas King's, 2003 Massey Lecture Series entitled "The Truth About Stories" or "You’re not the Indian I had in mind”