Blue Quills University Receives $2 Million Grant For Indigenous Teacher Training

By Jeremy Appel  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter A Treaty 6-based Indigenous university has received a $2-million grant from the Rideau Hall Foundation as part of an effort to train 10,000 new First Nations, Metis and Inuit teachers across Canada. University nuxe?hot’?ne thaa?ehots’? nistameyimakanak Blue Quills will use its funding to facilitate a five-year project to establish three distinct teacher education streams, immersion, elementary and secondary programming, while offering teacher training to Indigenous candidates who don’t have a bachelor’s in education. “Rooted in Land, language, Ceremony, and relationship, the project is guided by the laws of love, honesty, sharing and strength,” a news release from the Rideau Hall Foundation states. Located near St. Paul, about 200 km northeast of Edmonton, Blue Quills University was established in 1970 on the site of…

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