ABSTRACT
Providing strategies for indigenous people and existing leadership in educational organisations is expected to promote movement toward more respectful relationships in which partnerships are requisite “good educational practice” in a global social economy. In British Columbia the government has initiated a process to bring indigenous people and educational institutions into a better working partnership in education. While supported by provincial policy and leadership, this process must be forged in the communities through dialogues between educational professionals and indigenous people who are seeking an education that respects their culture and history. The forging of new relationships takes time and effort and often a baring of the heart as we move to new relationships between indigenous peoples and the settler societies.
