Reconciliation on campus: what's the next step beyond inclusion?
Ruth Koleszar-Green likes to remind those on the York University campus how far Indigenous people have come in academia within a generation.
Koleszar-Green, an assistant professor in York’s school of social work, who is Haudenosaunee, recounts how her mother started at York in 1969, but the experience was so “horribly violent” that she did not complete her degree. “But now, one generation later, I’m chairing the Indigenous Council and am sitting at dinner with the [university] president, as I sometimes challenge her belief and understandings of Indigeneity,” she said.
