I foulnd this to be courseloaded with insight and information. The content offers history from another perspective and gave me a greater understanding of First Nations and Metis in Canada. I heartily recommend this free course. It takes effort and engagement to gain the full benefit of the curriculum and it’s all worth it. Earning a certificate was an added bonus.

This course was insightful and helped me to understand why some things are they way they are in Canadian society. Even though I am done the course, I am revisiting the reading materials and quizzes. My hope is to retain this knowledge, revisit and use it in my day to day considerations of the world around me. Thank you so much to Professor Bear and her colleagues.

Excellent! Lots of content and well presented. One topic I felt was perhaps not highlighted involves issues and management around health/health ..traditional indigenous practices vs colonial settler medicine. So much to touch on in just 12 modules! Thank you 🙏 I have so much to learn and this course has sparked a much better awareness and genuine respect.

This course was totally wonderful. My Wife's Grandmother was indigenous, so she had told us a few things, then whatever articles I had read via Library. I had recently read a few things from the Truth and Reconciliation report. This course was strongly recommended by my Diocese. I have a new better understanding of Indigenous and what they have endured. Thank you.

Thank you for providing this course on Coursera. It was the best online course I've ever done. I learned so much about Indigenous people in Canada. Things that I was never taught in school. This course gave me the opportunity to relearn the true history of North America. It was very infomative and enlightening. I will definetly recommend it to everyone I know.

I'm so glad I decided to enroll in this program. My best friend was Metis. We grew up together, went to school together and yet I had no idea of the impact colonialism may have had on his life. As Canadians we owe it to ourselves and our Indigenous colleagues to become much better informed and stamp out the judgemental attitudes that still exist in our society .

This course was very eye opening for me! I appreciate the time and effort that went into preparing it and also the course's accessibility. I was unaware of much of the content and feel like I have a better understanding of the history of the last few centuries. I also feel that I have a better understanding of indigenous values and worldviews. Sincere thanks!

An excellent introduction to the native peoples of this land known as Canada. A perspective of truth and honesty, which depicts the colonialism and racism thrown at them like a dagger. I am very pleased to have the opportunity to participate with this course and would like to say a HUGE thank you to all involved with putting this course together, many blessings.

Very informative. Thank you for the lesson. I learned a lot, and I hope the school curriculum will include more Indigenous worldviews soon, not as a separate lecture, but incorporate with the Indigenous teaching. The Indigenous teaching is much kinder with care. If the Indigenous teaching were kept and not destroyed, then maybe our world wouldn't be as separated.

This course is incredibly thought provoking. I will not be able to look at our country and not see the harm of colonization and the continued role it plays present day. My beliefs have been changed and I will not be able to participate in the status quo. I thank the people who told their very personal stories to those of us who didn't know what we didn't know.

This course was exceptional. I enjoyed every minute of it. I have learnt so much through the 12 modules of Indigenous Canada. Every day I learned something new and would rave about them to my friends and family. These facts need to be taught as a regular curriculum in schools all over Canada. Thank you very much for this knowledge! I am incredibly thankful.

This course was eye-opening and engaging. I have learned so much and the course provided a lot of additional material to look into to continue learning. I have already recommended this course to others and wish that there were other MOOC courses from these Professors available now. This course and how the Professors presented the material is the gold standard.

I am so happy that I was told about this course! I enjoyed every moment of it and it helped me understand more about Indigenous worldviews and how present colonization is today. The interviews conducted were great and the information was thorough but also digestible. I hope that there are more courses that I can take with UAlberta Native Studies through Coursera!

I never expected I can complete a wonderful course. From the beginning of the course to the end, each part I have learned is really interesting and I have enjoyed a lot by acquiring knowledge in Indigenous Canada. I thank the educators for enlightening my existing knowledge and for their efforts to spread a really wonderful history on Indigenous people of Canada.

Highly informative, challenges preconceived notions regarding Indigenous people within Canada. Not afraid to shed light on difficult parts of Canadian history that you don't always hear about in schools. A must-take for anyone interested in Canadian history, anyone interested in helping our FNMI people, or anyone wanting to know more about Canada's FNMI cultures.

Just wow, I thought that I had learned about the prejudice that Aboriginal People's had faced in school was all there was, but this course not only opened my eyes to what truly was going on against the Native People of Canada, as well as all the beauty their artwork can capture. Truly an eye opening experience, I would definitely recommend this course to anyone.

Very eye-opening. As a Canadian child in her late 50s, I can honestly say I didn't know most of what was in here. I learned about the explorers, but never really about the indigenous people before them. I will admit to many unfortunate pre-conceived notions that I will now be working on daily to remove and repair. Thank you for the opportunity to learn and grow.

It is incredible to learn about the indigenous experience in Canada from a new perspective rather than from a heteropatriarchical and colonialist lens. This course is exceedingly valuable, and every Canadian should be urged to take it to realize our history and the impact of intergenerational trauma and systemic racism that still impact indigenous people today.

I found a few of the questions in the quizes to be a misleading. I feel like a few answers could of been correct. Otherwise, I have learned so much. I did this course not for any credit but to learn about the truth and I gained much knowledge. I wanted to finish on the weekend of Truth and Reconciliation Day - Sept 30th. Thank you to the many who contributed.

What a great course. I learned so much about First Nations, Métis and Inuit. I was born in a small town called Sept-îles right next to an Innu community. There's still a lot of barriers and ignorance surrounding aboriginal culture in Québec and Canada. I will definitely recommend this course to anyone who wants to know more about communities and their cultures.

I am extremely glad that I took this course. I have learned new and valuable information about Indigenous people and their history that I did not know prior to this course. I am thankful to have gained this knowledge and have a new understanding and respect for the rich culture and ideas that we as Canadians can benefit from if only we will listen and learn.

I am not someone who can learn unless I am in a classroom. This was my first time learning on my own. I loved how everything was set up. It was easy for me to learn from this amazing information. I have gained more awareness now and hope to continue to grow and learn and share what I have learnt with others. Thank you very much to the presenters and their team!

I want to take this opportunity to thank the staff at the U of A who brought this course together and to offer it for free was outstanding. I have been looking for straight and honest information on the history of the Native peoples and what the governments role in colonization and has it and is it still going on today. Which sadly it is. Thank you again Ron M.

I was blessed to have taken this course and to have increased my awareness and understanding of indigenous peoples, the role that they have played in Canada, their history, and the shameful what that the European settlers treated them and that we as "new Canadians" have treated them. I would highly recommend this course. It will educate you and open your mind.