Creating Space: Indigenous Education Hopi the Medicine Wheel

the Medicine Wheel

the world of humans

Grand Chief John Kelly 1977

The book begins by explaining her background and what forces have brought her to this current thinking

Creating Space: Indigenous Education Hopi the Medicine WheelCreating Space: My Life and Work in Indigenous Education is the memoir of distinguished Elder and educator Verna J. Kirkness. Her story of Indigenous education begins on the Fisher River First Nation community. As the first cross cultural consultant for the Manitoba Department of Education Curriculum Branch she made Cree and Ojibway the languages of instruction in several Manitoba schools. In the early 1970s she became the first Education Director for