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Leadership & Leadership & Management Management ProgramProgram
Blue Quills First Nations CollegeBlue Quills First Nations College
Blue Quills is an Blue Quills is an independent independent Indigenous Indigenous institution.institution.
Mandated is to advance & Mandated is to advance & protect indigenous knowledge protect indigenous knowledge and thought through education, and thought through education, research, and community research, and community service.service.
Blue Quills First Nations College
to be effective leaders in our to be effective leaders in our communities and in business, communities and in business, we need to be whole healthy we need to be whole healthy human beingshuman beings
Blue Quills First Nations College
Responsive to community Responsive to community demand, and industry while demand, and industry while grounded in natural law, grounded in natural law, spiritual practice, ceremony, spiritual practice, ceremony, ethicsethics
Blue Quills First Nations College
Blue Quills First Nations College
Program Program DevelopmeDevelopment is nt is responsible responsible to Seven to Seven GenerationGenerationss
Research is Ceremony Research is Ceremony Teaching is a sacred responsibilityTeaching is a sacred responsibility
LandLandLanguageLanguage
CeremonyCeremony
RelationshipRelationshipBlue Quills First Nations College
In all aspects of life, - family, In all aspects of life, - family, community, business - we need community, business - we need to learn 4 things as human to learn 4 things as human beings:beings:
honour the mystery of Creationhonour the mystery of Creation
get along with othersget along with others
do/ make thingsdo/ make things
think & understand Spiritualthink & understand Spiritual
EmotionalEmotional
PhysicalPhysical
MentalMental
Blue Quills First Nations College
We acknowledge We acknowledge the ceremonial fire the ceremonial fire at the centre of all at the centre of all we do, we honour we do, we honour our Mother the our Mother the Earth, and the Earth, and the Natural Laws of Natural Laws of Loving Humble Loving Humble Kindness, Honesty, Kindness, Honesty, Sharing, and Sharing, and Spiritual Strength Spiritual Strength and Determination.and Determination.
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We know that to We know that to sustain the next sustain the next generation, we generation, we need to live what need to live what we know we know SUSTAINING LIFE SUSTAINING LIFE – leaving – leaving something for something for the next seven the next seven generations.generations.
Blue Quills First Nations College
We know that ceremony and art are We know that ceremony and art are avenues to opening heart and avenues to opening heart and spirit. Students participate in spirit. Students participate in creative activity, not to become creative activity, not to become artists, but to apply the skills to artists, but to apply the skills to creative thinking, decision making, creative thinking, decision making, idea generation, and human idea generation, and human relations.relations.
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It is time now to do our own It is time now to do our own educating our own way, to educating our own way, to advance Indigenous Knowledge, advance Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous research careers, and Indigenous research careers, and Indigenous communities.Indigenous communities. Blue Quills First Nations College
Our knowledge Our knowledge systems include systems include economics, economics, technology, wealth technology, wealth distribution, distribution, politics, and some politics, and some of the most of the most sophisticated sophisticated methods of social methods of social structure and structure and practice.practice.
Blue Quills First Nations College
Guidance is given by kihteyak, Guidance is given by kihteyak, our Elders. They serve as our Elders. They serve as professional consultants on professional consultants on ceremony, protocol, Indigenous ceremony, protocol, Indigenous knowledge, philosophy, research knowledge, philosophy, research methods, language acquisition methods, language acquisition methods, and translation.methods, and translation. Blue Quills First Nations College
students experience life students experience life transformations when they transformations when they understand the colonial process, the understand the colonial process, the residential school experience and the residential school experience and the intergenerational effects of trauma. intergenerational effects of trauma. Blue Quills First Nations College
But first, we need to But first, we need to understand understand colonization and colonization and decolonization:decolonization:
Our students: a strong sense of Our students: a strong sense of self, grounded in traditional self, grounded in traditional ancestral knowledge, strong ancestral knowledge, strong enough to be who they are in this enough to be who they are in this world.world.
I sense the things I want to I sense the things I want to accomplish in the future will not be accomplish in the future will not be effective if I don’t work on myself.effective if I don’t work on myself.
I can Vision I can Vision
being a leader.being a leader.Blue Quills First Nations College
is the life skills is the life skills that I have that I have picked up along picked up along my learning my learning journey;journey;
understanding understanding oneself by oneself by changing, and changing, and realizing you realizing you cannot change cannot change others.others.
The best thing about the L & M The best thing about the L & M Program:Program:
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I now I now know know who I am who I am – an – an educatioeducation n warrior. warrior. And And what I what I need to need to do – do – hunt for hunt for my my people people through through educatioeducationn
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Business clients Business clients have said they have said they have changed the have changed the way they do way they do business after business after training with us.training with us.
““why isn’t everyone doing this?”why isn’t everyone doing this?”
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We know that We know that our our knowledge knowledge has sustained has sustained us for time us for time immemorial. immemorial.
The only way we will sustain our The only way we will sustain our selves into the future is to live selves into the future is to live what we know.what we know.
Blue Quills First Nations College
Blue Quills First Nations College
It takes a It takes a certain certain amount of amount of obsession obsession to be who to be who you areyou are
Lee MaracleLee Maracle
Our Elders say, education is the Our Elders say, education is the new buffalo, then perhaps our new buffalo, then perhaps our entrepreneurs are our new entrepreneurs are our new hunters. And in the hunt, the hunters. And in the hunt, the honour and responsibility is in honour and responsibility is in the sharing and giving.the sharing and giving.
Blue Quills First Nations College
Blue Quills First Nations College
Without talking Without talking about money,about money,
can we talk about can we talk about what this willwhat this will
do for our do for our community?community?
Instead of talking Instead of talking about theabout the
dollars we can dollars we can make, let’s talkmake, let’s talk
about the difference about the difference we canwe canmake.make.
Indigenous learning Indigenous learning methods offer methods offer students a sense of students a sense of ownership of the ownership of the knowledge, and knowledge, and alignment with our alignment with our traditional traditional knowledge, knowledge, bphilosophies and bphilosophies and practices.practices.
PerspectivePerspectiveWe look through We look through our own lens at our own lens at the knowledge of the knowledge of the business the business world around us. world around us.
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Cree Identity, Cree Identity, Language, Life Ways, Language, Life Ways, Treaties & Treaties & Governance, Governance, Historical Impacts, Historical Impacts, Contemporary Issues, Contemporary Issues, Indigenous Indigenous Leadership Leadership Paradigms.Paradigms.
All of the standard All of the standard Business Courses Business Courses through our own through our own lens lens PlusPlus
Business Education PlusBusiness Education Plus
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ECONOMIC ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENT QUESTIONS: QUESTIONS: Are our people Are our people honoured? honoured? What is the What is the spiritual spiritual dimension of dimension of the venture? the venture?
RELATIONSHIPS – RELATIONSHIPS – wakohtowin, all wakohtowin, all our relations and our relations and with all of with all of creation.creation.
BALANCE in BALANCE in everything we everything we do, integrating do, integrating our personal and our personal and professional professional lives, our lives, our community and community and business business responsibilities.responsibilities.
SYSTEMS THEORY SYSTEMS THEORY – how structures – how structures influence our influence our thinking and thinking and decision making.decision making.
Blue Quills First Nations College
Blue Quills First Nations College
Those communities that are richest in their artistic tradition are also those that are the most progressive in their economic performance and most resilient and secure in their economic structure.John Kenneth Galbraith, economist
We know that We know that our approach to our approach to leadership and leadership and management management education with education with experiential experiential learning learning grounded in grounded in traditional traditional knowledge, knowledge, prepares our prepares our students for any students for any workplace. workplace.
Communication, thinking & Communication, thinking & problem solving, positive problem solving, positive behaviours, responsibility, behaviours, responsibility, adaptability, learning culture, adaptability, learning culture, teamwork, and participation.teamwork, and participation.
Our students Our students have strength have strength in the key in the key employability employability skills identified skills identified by the by the Conference Conference Board of Board of Canada:Canada:
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Elders say business is ceremony Elders say business is ceremony where there is no competition, where there is no competition, but a responsibility to serve all but a responsibility to serve all our relations and to ensure that our relations and to ensure that the knowledge is passed on to the knowledge is passed on to the next generation. the next generation.
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band councilband council
tribal law/ policy tribal law/ policy developmentdevelopment
marketing, sales & marketing, sales & fundraisingfundraising
small business/ program small business/ program managementmanagement
researchresearch
administrationadministration
consulting & advisingconsulting & advising
master’s degree graduatesmaster’s degree graduates
100% 100% percent percent
employmentemployment
Our graduates are Our graduates are working:working:
Blue Quills First Nations College
Blue Quills First Nations College
A tension has always existed between the capitalist A tension has always existed between the capitalist imperative to maximize efficiency at any cost and imperative to maximize efficiency at any cost and the moral imperatives of culture which historically the moral imperatives of culture which historically have served as a counterweight to the moral have served as a counterweight to the moral blindness of the market. blindness of the market. This is another example This is another example of the cultural of the cultural contradictions of contradictions of capitalism — capitalism — the tendency over the tendency over time for the time for the economic impulse economic impulse to erode the moral to erode the moral underpinnings underpinnings of society.of society.Michael PollanMichael Pollan
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A spirit comes into the world A spirit comes into the world dancing, dancing into the dancing, dancing into the world, ... and dances out when world, ... and dances out when we are done our work. we are done our work.
We are not a dying people. We We are not a dying people. We have so much to offer, so much have so much to offer, so much to live for. to live for.
Edna Manitawabi, AnishinabeEdna Manitawabi, Anishinabe
Box 279Box 279
St Paul, Alberta, Canada T0A 3A0St Paul, Alberta, Canada T0A 3A0
Treaty Six TerritoryTreaty Six Territory
780-645-4455780-645-4455
www.bluequills.cawww.bluequills.ca
[email protected]@bluequills.ca
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