The Connection to the Land with Dr. Herman Michell

Air Date: July 28, 2022

Summary

Welcome back to another episode of the 4 part language revitalization series. Dr. Herman Michell is our third guest on our special series and we are thrilled he was able to take the time to join us and share his knowledge of the Cree language, the connection between language and the land and the importance of learning just one Cree word. Dr. Michelle is also a renowned published author with a new book releasing soon. Dr. Herman Michell has been involved in education since the early 1990s with a focus on the integration of Indigenous Ways of Knowing at all levels of the education system. Dr. Michell is Woodlands Cree, originally from Treaty 10 territory in northern Manitoba, the Barren Lands First Nation. Currently residing in treaty six. He is a university educator, researcher, consultant, and author of numerous books and articles that focus on Indigenous knowledge and land-based education. Dr. Michell is currently a consultant for the Prince Albert Grand Council in Saskatchewan.

kinanâskomitin Herman,

your comeback sisters.

SERIES

The Comeback Society

HOSTS & PRODUCERS
Alicia Morrow
Lexie Obey

Episode Guest

Dr. Herman Michell has spent many years promoting Indigenous education. His current focus is on land-based education, language, and school science from a Woodland Cree perspective. He is influenced by ancestral teachings that stem from a long line of land-based peoples that occupy northern Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The Six Seasons of the Woodland Cree are used as a curriculum framework to develop activities that reinforce mental, spiritual, emotional, and physical development.

Dr. Michell is a university educator, published author, researcher, consultant, and lecturer. Dr.Michell shares the view that ‘land-based education is not a trend’, but a life-giving force that iscritical to the decolonization and survival of the Cree and Dene peoples. The land is both teacherand healer. The land is used as a school and classroom. It is important to share the underlying cultural and philosophical teachings of First Nations people while making links with local Elders, communities, worldview, languages, values, stories, history, and ways of knowing.

Dr. Michell is a published author of numerous books and articles. He grew up on Reindeer Lake,Treaty 10 territory in northern Saskatchewan. He is a member of the Barren Lands First Nation. In 2008, he completed a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Regina in Curriculum and Instruction – Cree culture and school science. He has a Master’s Degree in Education from the University of British Columbia (1998). He has a background in Education Psychology and Special Education from both UBC and the University of Manitoba. Dr. Michell initially obtained a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology from the University of Winnipeg in 1990.

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