Mount Royal University has launched its Indigenization and Decolonization Strategic Framework, which is titled: Inii Awattoo, Buffalo on the Move. The plan draws on the Blackfoot lodge that was gifted to MRU by Elder Miiksika’am as a living model for the strategic plan. The plan itself is built on four foundational poles: Indigenous student success; transformative education; Indigenous oral traditions and pedagogies; and reciprocity, consensus, and shared responsibility. The university explains that these four “lodge poles” represent the strength of the institution’s commitment to Indigenization and decolonization, while the lodge fire—fed by the activities and initiatives that give life to the shared commitments—symbolizes the vitality of the framework.
