Yellowhead School
Grounded in Indigenous curriculum, teaching, and learning with a commitment to decolonial futures, Yellowhead School offers a different kind of education shaped by ancestral beliefs about the transformative power of knowledge and education.
OUR EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY
Our collaborative approach to education prioritizes Indigenous kinship, community, and land relations. We are committed to the restoration of Indigenous sovereignty through training, mentoring, and learning from the next generation of Indigenous leaders.
MISKO AKI KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE
The Misko Aki Knowledge Exchange is a tuition-free, non-accredited educational program offered through Yellowhead School. This intensive four-week hybrid program provides a radically different perspective on Indigenous-led solidarity, social movements, and worlding with Black and racialized communities through a decolonial lens that is backed by research and taught by innovative scholars, artists, activists, and community helpers. MAKE is grounded in theoretical learning and practical application for Indigenous, Black, and racialized community helpers involved in local, community, and land-based initiatives.
MAKE 2024:
Radical Relationalities
Our first program used the framework of radical relationalities for cultivating and nurturing individual and collective relations with view of shared decolonization and liberation.
MAKE 2025:
Making Liveable Worlds
This program was inspired by the book, “Making Livable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice” by Hilda Llorens and sought to explore the many ways academics, artists, and activists make liveable worlds.
YELLOWHEAD SCHOOL RESOURCES
Education Resources
The Treaty Map Education Guide
The Treaty Map Education Guide includes 9 exercises designed to encourage critical and creative thinking on the interpretation and implementation of treaties in Canada.
From Askiy to the Sea: A Solidarity Reading List on Settler Colonial Context
This Reading List makes links between Palestine and other settler colonial contexts in order to understand and explain this relationship better.
An Indigenous Abolitionist Study Guide
A collection of Indigenous-led resources developed by a diverse coalition of organizers to imagine and rebuild abolitionist futures, centering care, restoration, and resistance to carceral systems.
Co-Created MAKE Resources
Kin Ties: Stories on Language Relations
by Ja’miil Millar and Maisaloon Alashkar
Imagining Freedom Together: A Collective Zine of Abolition Dreams
by MAKE 2024 (RPS 2024) with Dr. Stephanie Latty
MAKE 2025: A Playlist for Making Liveable Worlds
A shared music playlist curated by the MAKE 2025 cohort
Land Back: A Yellowhead School Online Course
An open access online course about the ways Canada dispossesses Indigenous people of the land – and the strategies communities are using to get it back.
Yellowhead Fire
Fire events bring together established and emerging scholars, activists, and artists to discuss pressing concerns and issues, exchange ideas, and offer critical Indigenous perspectives on settler colonialism and the reclamation of Indigenous land and “the good life”.
Public Administration and Indigenous Governance Program
This accredited program is a partnership with the First Nation Technical Institute and the Department of Politics at Toronto Metropolitan University. Designed for Indigenous students working in community governance, the Program aims to build the skills to practice sovereignty.
Yellowhead School is made possible with tremendous support from the Atkinson Foundation.