Creating Space: Indigenous Education Hopi Kenichi Matsui

Kenichi Matsui

During the early nineteenth century

an Anishinaabe leader who signed the North-West Angle Treaty of 1873

The book begins by explaining her background and what forces have brought her to this current thinking

Creating Space: Indigenous Education Hopi Kenichi MatsuiCreating Space: My Life and Work in Indigenous Education is the memoir of distinguished Elder and educator Verna J. Kirkness. Her story of Indigenous education begins on the Fisher River First Nation community. As the first cross cultural consultant for the Manitoba Department of Education Curriculum Branch she made Cree and Ojibway the languages of instruction in several Manitoba schools. In the early 1970s she became the first Education Director for