Referencing this https://www.fnha.ca/Documents/FNHA-Territory-Acknowledgements-Information-Booklet.pdf
While reading through this document I have found many important details and I also highly appreciate having this resource shared with me. Since I am someone who has been very intimidated by the idea of doing territorial acknowledgements so now having something that I can use as a guide of sorts is almost calming in a way and helps me feel far less like I need to try and figure it all out on my own. I am happy to be given more resources to help me with the process of indigenizing my teaching practices along with resources to help me with moving towards reconciliation. I find that there are many times when we are told to indigenize our teaching but we are not given many if any tools to help us in these efforts which has left me rather lost and confused on if I was even on the right track with indigenizing my lessons. I am very glad to even just have something to help with territorial acknowledgements because I have only ever really heard the rather robotic ones that the schools will say over the announcements so having something to help put more heart into my own is a wonderful gift.
I have found it very helpful the ideas of how much the territorial acknowledgement can change from area to area, such as if the Métis people are included in the acknowledgement or not and how the order of the nations will stay in alphabetical order.
I want to link this PDF (Portable Document Format) and its knowledge to the teaching competencies of 6) practice respect for all learners from all cultures, including, specifically, Indigenous learners, I find this one so fitting since within the do’s and don’ts section there are many things listed to show respect for indigenous peoples which can help show students that level of respect and teach other students to show that respect as well. The idea shared of keeping the names of nations alphabetical also helps show respect through not putting any nation first for an reason aide from what the letters in their names are.