Thank you so much for this course and for the opportunity to see our Canadian history from another perspective which was not taught in school. I would definitely recommend this course. Learning is power and knowledge to better ourselves.

Also a big thanks to Dan Levy for recommending this course.

As an educator, this course has been so eye-opening and helped me understand the deeply rooted issues that have been happening in Canada since its founding and well before, too. Thank you to the entire team for the dedication to make this course what it is and for making it so widely accessible.

Thank you.

I thoroughly enjoyed this course. My heart broke listening to account after account of betrayal and manipulation the Indigenous peoples of Canada endured. What would peoples reaction today be if colonization was reversed?

I am in full support of educating all Canadians of this history.

I am 28 years old and grew up in southern Ontario. I learned nothing of Indigenous Peoples in school asides for when I would wonder off on museum fieldtrips. I thoroughly enjoyed this course so much of it I did not know. Thank you very much for creating it and I highly recommend this course!!

Thank you for all your work in assembling this introduction to indigenous Canada (North America). Much appreciation for making this material and these important perspectives accessible both in asynchronous form and in presentation of materials. The additional resources are sincerely appreciated.

This was something that I had put off for far too long. I think this should be mandatory for all work places. We all need to do our part to learn and I'm fortunate to be in a job that encourages me to learn about the past. Thank you and I will be recommending this course to many.

Raissa Bugyi

I have learned so many things from this course that have conveniently been left out of my school studies. I highly recommend this course to anyone looking to know more about our indigenous population and the many injustices brought against them by the British and Canadian government. Thank you!

I feel like Canada failed our schools in not teaching in an appropriate way the colonization that occurred to Indigenous people’s. I will do better in teaching my own children about Canadian history and therefore hope that empathy and partnership can grow with the cultures that exist in Canada.

Amazing course!! Every Canadian or PR should complete this course to understand Canadian origins which in turn helps learning about current Canadian culture, history, legislation, and politics. Fantastic professors and very well structured. Will highly recommend it to my friends. Thank you!

An amazing introduction to one of the most important issues to face modern 'Canada'. As a 3 week citizen of the place currently known as Canada, this has provided me an amazing foundation on which to build knowledge, and developed a tremendous sense of responsibility to be better in the future.

This was a fantastic course. Every Canadian should take this to develop their understanding of the indigenous communities who have been there since before the country we know as Canada came to be, and how those communities and peoples are so resilient and such an important part of Canada today.

This is a brilliant, and highly important, course for all who live in Canada to take. This also suits those abroad who should understand the deep and powerful cultural resistance and expressions of Aboriginal peoples in North America - and beyond. Everyone needs to have done this course, truly.

Thank You for sharing this. You have added so much more knowlege & love into my mind & heart. You have given me teachings, lessons to learn in understanding the culture, love, & life of The Indigenous Canada Peoples past, present & now together into the future flight of life! Joseph Wilson

I am Metis and knew very little about my ancestry and heritage due to the shame my mother held in her heart. This course has taken me on a journey that my heart has longed for since birth. The course made me think because the answers were not always found in the notes. Excellent!!!! Miigwetch

This course was extremely interesting and well done. I feel I have a greater understanding of many issues that were never correctly explained to me when in school or from the mainstream news of the past few decades. This was really worth doing and I will recommend this course to many people.

Really informative, well-organized, and well paced. As well, there are many perspectives included and approached Indigenous history and culture in a way I'd never been able to access before this course. Huge thank you to Dr. Bear and the TAs in this course, the artist Leah, and all who helped.

A wonderful introduction to a broad range of topics from Indigenous issues, to resilience, to contemporary Indigenous culture. It ties the historical to the present day very well. I only wish there were more courses on coursera that I could delve deeper into the various topics introduced here.

Thank you so much for putting this course together. I now have a better understanding of Indigenous beliefs, the various clans, their struggles and culture. The world is a better place due to the Indigenous and other social groups could learn a lot from the Indigenous if they stop to listen.

This course was well organized and planned out. I learned a lot and am so grateful to all those involved in creating and executing this course. This is such an important topic, and I hope that more Canadians will take the time to learn about Indigenous history and culture. Highly recommended!

Great informative and historical course. Lots of amazing educational details. Happy to learn so much of Indigenous history and that of Canadian history as well. Course material was easy to follow and captivating. The artwork shown at the end was beautiful and filled with creativity and beauty.

This is a wonderful and insightful course that all Canadians should take. From a settler perspective, there is so much that we do not understand about the past. There is still so much that is missing from our education system and this course does a great job a leaping ones knowledge forward.

As a retired educator, I very much appreciated the multimedia approach to this course's content; self-pacing made it especially digestable. I will happily recommend this course to anyone wishing to better or further understand the First Nations Peoples of Canada.

With gratitude,

Tracey Shelley

I thought the course was excellent. In the last Module 12 Living Traditions: Expressions in Pop Culture and Art I would of liked to see the artwork of the artist's that were spoken about. This would have enhanced this module. Overall I really enjoyed the lessons as a Haudenosaunee and Kanienke

It was interesting to learn from artistic, symbolic and storytelling points of view the alternative historical development of indigenous peoples and colonialism in Canada. I recommend this course for those who want to learn about First Nations, Métis, Inuit and Aboriginal culture and history.

The content throughout the course was very informative. The content and language was also very accessible throughout the course. The design and topics covered in the course provided insight on how the historical and past events influence contemporary and present issues Indigenous peoples face.