Academic articles
Multiple perspectives on polar science educational outreach partnerships in the north Yukon, Canada
Educational resources
VGFN/CZGS collaborative Culture Camp:
Student workbooks
Year 1: Traditions and Science (Grades 7-8-9)
Year 2: Traditions, History and Geography (Grades 7-8-9)
Year 3: Traditions, Arts and Trades (Grades 7-8-9)
“Push Up Press” newsletter
Push Up Press Year 1: Traditions and Science
Push Up Press Year 2: Traditions, History and Geography
Push Up Press Year 3: Traditions, Arts and Trades
Presentations
Yukon First Nation Education Directorate (YFNED) Annual Conference
Whitehorse, Yukon
“Panel: Yukon First Nations-Informed Teaching, Learning & Assessment in K-12” (2025, 6th Conference)
YukonU YNTEP/BEAD Student Teachers and Frances Ross-Furlong
“Yukon Panel: First Nation and School Land Programs” (2024, 5th Conference)
Hosted by Stanley Njootli Sr and Frances Ross-Furlong
“Old Crow Land-Based Learning” (2023, 4th Conference)
Presenters Stanley Njootli Sr and Frances Ross-Furlong
Muiwatmnej Etuaptmumk Conference 2023
Unama’ki/Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
Abstract:
We begin Old Crow, Yukon, where Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation adapted the two-eyed seeing method to research, re-write and deliver the spring muskrat-trapping culture camp. We will share 3 teacher resources and 9 student booklets for this K-9 three-week camp. Next we used co-teaching to establish the first high school program at Chief Zzeh Gittlit School. Moving to the territorial level at Yukon University, we continue through starting land-based English and science upgrading courses, and a Guardian training program. We will end reviewing our decolonizing efforts with the Yukon Native Teacher Education Program.
Key Takeaways:
– Collaborative decolonization: Supporting student choice and success, with love we ferociously demand decolonizing institutional change in the settler-colonial system
– Land, family & love: We focus on the whole person – love, community, trauma, resiliency, & joy brought together in diverse ways to meet complex needs & goals
– Co-learning/teaching: How we learned to teach between worldviews with examples from field programs & in-classroom instruction