b'LEARNINGFROMTHE LANDLand-based learning highlights land as our first teacher. It recognizes humans are not separate from the land they live onthey are an extension of it. Land-based learning works to decolonize Eurocentric education systems and privilege Indigenous ways of knowingOur team also looked and being. It provides students with all the holistic health benefits of outdoor learning. through the lens of As Matthew Wildcat and colleagues said in a 2014 paper: physical education to If colonization is fundamentally about dispossessing Indigenous peoples from land, decolonization must involveconsider how we can forms of education that reconnect Indigenous peoplesto land. draw on land-based This form of learning is not new to the Louis Riel Schoollearning to decolonize Division (LRSD). It is a practice and philosophy our Indigenous Education team has always held.outdoor education This past year, the Healthy Living Department and at LRSD and increase members of the Indigenous Education team worked on further developing land-based learning in the division. participation in outdoor After initial planning, research, and collaboration, theteam piloted an Indigenous land-based learning event at education, specifically in Dr. D.W. Penner School.high schools.-Jordana Milne, Administratorof Athletics and Healthy Living 42'