Issued also in French under title: L'éducation comme outil de guérison : une trajectoire pour améliorer les taux de diplomation et les résultats scolaires des étudiants autochtones. Original published on: 2024/05/08. Published on: 2024/05/23.

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Since time immemorial, Indigenous peoples have had their own ways of educating their children and youth. Canada’s tools of colonization and assimilation policies, such as Indian Residential Schools and Day Schools, decimated the intergenerational transfer of knowledge in Indigenous communities and their education systems. On 27 October 2022, the House of Commons unanimously agreed that the government must “recognize what happened in Canada’s Indian residential schools as genocide, as acknowledged by Pope Francis and in accordance with article II of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of the United Nations.”[1] Today, First Nations, Inuit and Métis children and youth continue to face poorer educational outcomes, when compared to their non-Indigenous peers, in large part as a direct or indirect result of these genocidal policies. The strength of First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities, who have begun the process of decolonizing education with Indigenous knowledge, will be highlighted in this study.