A Canadian-born actor is urging everyone to get educated on Indigenous issues and history in 2020.
Dan Levy, co-creator or the popular Schitt鈥檚 Creek, posted a video to Twitter about Indigenous Canada, a free online course from the University of Alberta.
鈥淚t鈥檚 a 12-lesson massive open online course that explores Indigenous histories and contemporary issues from an Indigenous perspective,鈥� Levy said.
The actor said he would be hosting question and answer sessions with professors to delve deeper into the materials and learn about past and present issues that many students 鈥� including Levy himself 鈥� may not have learned in school.
鈥淏ecause if 2020 has taught us anything, it鈥檚 that we need to actively relearn history 鈥� history that wasn鈥檛 taught to us in school 鈥� to better understand and contextualize our lives and how we can better support and be of service to each other.鈥�
According to the University of Alberta, the course 鈥渃ourse explores key issues facing Indigenous peoples today from a historical and critical perspective highlighting national and local Indigenous-settler relations.鈥� For more information, visit: https://www.ualberta.ca/admissions-programs/online-courses/indigenous-canada/index.html.
Come learn with me? I鈥檝e signed up for a (free) course through the University of Alberta called Indigenous Canada. 12 lessons that explore Indigenous histories and contemporary issues from an Indigenous perspective.
鈥� dan levy (@danjlevy) August 18, 2020
This little video explains it all. Sign up via link in my bio! pic.twitter.com/LccboMO8X2
Levy鈥檚 call comes after a series of ongoing Black Lives Matter protests that in Canada have grown to include racism and police brutality against Indigenous peoples.
This year has also seen a fatal police shooting of Indigenous woman Chantel Moore during a wellness check and a confrontation between police and Chief Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, with police seen on video punching Adam over an alleged expired licence plate.
READ MORE: Shooting victim Chantel Moore remembered as 鈥榯he sweetest soul鈥�
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