About LON 360° Indigenous Education Initiative

Activated by the unveiling of two public artworks of substantial historic value and symbolic meaning – Landscape of Nations: The Six Nations & Native Allies Commemorative Memorial and the First Nations Peace Monument – the Landscape of Nations 360° Indigenous Education Initiative provides teachers and students with a contextual and comprehensive understanding of the Indigenous experience in the Niagara Region. Backed by scholarship that reveals information long absent from textbooks and applied to the establishment of professional development programs for teachers and development of multimedia curriculum enhancement lessons for students (combined with field activities at relevant heritage destinations), this initiative will assist educators in providing students with inclusive learning experiences in classrooms.

The War of 1812, so critical to understanding Canada’s emergence and identity as a nation, also provides educators with a profound opportunity to teach about the original peoples of this region, of their relations as allied nations to Britain before, during, and after the war, and of the “covenant of friendship” that tarnished darkly over the past two centuries. Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission has addressed this legacy in its calls to eliminate educational gaps between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians and for the development of “culturally appropriate curricula.” Landscape of Nations 360° supports this national mandate through its research, production, and development of historically accurate information supported by credentialed Indigenous scholarship and perspectives that form the basis for the Ten Essential Understandings framework referenced herein. Landscape of Nations 360° supports educators in their earnest desire to better understand the histories, knowledge, and perspectives of Indigenous peoples to provide a more complete and thorough education to their students. These efforts and materials directly support the significant demands teachers face in the traditional and online classroom, are founded upon social studies standards, and are aligned directly with the Ontario curriculum.

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