Students hope to see more Indigenous knowledge in courses, representation in faculty at U of M

Credit: CBC News Manitoba

Noah Crossman is proud to be Métis and carries that pride with him as co-president of the Métis University Students’ Association and the Indigenous students representative on his faculty’s student association at the University of Manitoba.

But Crossman, who is studying psychology, said he’d like to see more Indigenous scholars in the sciences and more Indigenous teachings in his courses, so he can weave two ways of learning together.

“But it’s definitely tough and it’s because from a broad perspective, science and the university in general is very colonial … so it’s hard to blend those two knowledge systems,” said the third-year student, adding he’s been doing the work on his own to try and make it easier.