Two-Eyed Seeing. Trauma-wise Curriculum: Siksikees'tsuhkoom (Blackfoot Lands) & Human Ecology.

In an era where Home Economics classrooms still reverberate with colonial conceptions of home and family and the traumas associated with the residential school project in Canada, this analysis of Vaines' Human Ecology cannon is weighed for its potential to achieve Two-Eyed Seeing, a curricular framework from Indigenous Scholar Marie Battiste (Mi'kmaq, Potlotek First Nation). By proposing Vaines' Human Ecology as one eye and Nation-specific kinship and land-based ontologies as one eye, this paper calls Home Economists to action, to question, face, and supplant violence present in Home Economics ontologies that continue to disrupt Indigenous family integrity, moving towards trauma-wise curriculum in collaboration with Neighbour Nations. An ontological framework from the Blackfoot Confederacy is used as an example to model bedrock values for any community who has been the target of colonial educational assimilationist policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]