Boozhoo. Jackie is Anishaabekwe from Ogoki Post in Treaty 9 territory. She belongs to atik clan. Jackie’s mother is a residential school survivor and a life long educator who inspired Jackie to become a teacher. Jackie has worked within provincial and federal school systems throughout her education career. The majority of her work has focused on supporting Indigenous secondary students using a holistic Indigenous framework. Jackie is a supporter of authentically utilizing Indigenous values and knowledges in mainstream school systems.
Growing up, Jackie’s parents valued land teachings and the family spent hours on the family’s trapline. Jackie learned to harvest medicines, animals, and all the gifts the land provides. She was surrounded by language speakers and knowledge keepers who knew how to work with the land. Jackie has been immersed in land-based Indigenous pedagogies and continues to learn teachings from family, friends and Elders. Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing are foundational to Jackie’s understandings and connections to the land, her Ojibwe culture, her traditions and her history.
Jackie holds OCT teacher and principal qualifications and is currently a master’s student completing her final two courses in the Education for Change, Master of Education program with a specialization in Indigenous Education, at Lakehead University. Jackie believes the land is good medicine and encourages everyone to embrace the wild.
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