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If Yesno had a younger sibling about to enter post-secondary school in Ontario, what advice do you think she would offer? Support your interpretation with the experiences and insights she shares in "Go Beyond the Equity Handbook."
The very advice would be not to worry on the cultural differences that exist inside the campus as well as the people who do not accept the people belonging to the first nation.
The second advice would be to meet the student counselor allotted for her or the general student counselor and talk to her about the things that would make her comfortable. If the student counselor is not affirmatively taking her requests such as smudging, advise her not get demotivated.
There shall be a lot of abuses and all those should not be allowed to hurt her and they should be taken very positively. The treatment she received are due to the faulty education system where there is no equality for all, especially to the students belonging to the first nation.
Some of the courses that are very essential for the students of first nation and for others who shall get sensitized about the first nations may be absent. In such cases, find a good teacher who shall teach the required. Later on become a good friend and pass on the knowledge to your other good friends.
All the rules, regulations, principles, policies, etc., shall not change overnight. It would take people like you to successfully complete the studies, take up a profession that would grant the opportunity to take steps to change the system that keeps the people belong to first nation aside.
These would be the advices by Yesno to her younger sibling who is about to enter post-secondary school in Ontario.
The reasons why would she give these advices are as follows,
Yesno was not allowed to practice smudging in her hostel and campus premises even after requesting after the harmlessness as well as the benefits of the practice. She was not allowed to move freely instead was abused for being a member of first nation. Also, in her school, there were many languages such as latin, ancient greek but not Anishinaabemowin or the Iroquoian languages. She found the school and the system to have so much flaws that it did not support the students belonging to first nation. She also believed that the change in the outside world has to being from the change inside the schools and in the curriculums and redefining the do’s and don’ts.