A new aboriginal studies course set to be offered at College of New Caledonia.
Aboriginal Studies 110, which will be offered online through CNC beginning in January 2011, provides a unique perspective of the Metis culture that is relevant to Prince George and the surrounding region.
The course curriculum was developed by CNC new media and fine arts instructor Kim Stewart, who is Metis, as well as Marlene Erickson, CNC's senior policy advisor of aboriginal education.
When developing the course, Stewart and Erickson invited seven Metis elders from Prince George to talk about the things that mattered in their lives; what it was like for them as children, the joy and difficulty of growing up in a mixed culture and their firsthand experiences in the history that is normally only read about in books.
