I want to take this opportunity to thank the staff at the U of A who brought this course together and to offer it for free was outstanding. I have been looking for straight and honest information on the history of the Native peoples and what the governments role in colonization and has it and is it still going on today. Which sadly it is. Thank you again Ron M.

I was blessed to have taken this course and to have increased my awareness and understanding of indigenous peoples, the role that they have played in Canada, their history, and the shameful what that the European settlers treated them and that we as "new Canadians" have treated them. I would highly recommend this course. It will educate you and open your mind.

Excellent course. As I had no real understanding prior to taking this. I found it quite illuminating and am now able to have a basic understanding of colonialism, and the plight and discrimination of the Indigenous peoples. Thanks so much for creating this course. I believe all settlers should take it to gain understanding and support further political action.

As thorough as possible in 12 weeks, and constantly interesting. I learned a lot I didn't know before, and more than that, this course gave me a perspective from Indigenous points of view, while recognizing that is an over-simplification. The breadth and diversity of Indigenous communities is made apparent in this course. This course inspires me to learn more.

I was very impressed with how the instructors balanced the negative aspects of Indigenous history during colonization with a recognition of the positive aspects initially. The course did not portray Indigenous people only as victims. I loved the weaving of Indigenous world views throughout. It showed how much we can gain and learn from Indigenous teachings.

While the course videos were many, they were packed full of information and did a great job of explaining the many layers of history. There is more to learn for sure but I feel this was an excellent starter type course to see if there is appetite for more. Thank you for putting this together and congratulations to all those who took part in the making of it.

What a great course! It helped broaden my understand of the stories that were not being told about the Indigenous peoples across Canada. It's been a great start to my unlearning of histories taught in schools, shared indirectly in conversation as a youngster by my parents. It's helped to create compassion and empathy to the issues Indigenous people face today.

What an amazing learning experience this course was! I am truly grateful for this class has opened my mind, heart and understanding. Such a safe and friendly environment to learn about hard and dark truths. Thank you Tracy and Paul your course has been a life changing experience and the best thing to come out of 2020. You guys hold a special place in my heart.

This course was beyond eye-opening and should be mandatory for all Canadians. Indigenous Canada should be compulsory learning in secondary schools across the country. The course content is wonderfullly accesible and not too complicated. I appreciate the varied material formats (video lectures, readings, artworks) and the lectureres/story-tellers are excellent.

I really enjoyed learning about Indigenous history in Canada. I took this course to increase my understanding of Indigenous history and contemporary matters. This course delivered. It has provided me with a good understanding of the fundamentals, and offered me a roadmap to build upon that knowledge. I am also very grateful that this is being offered for free.

Learnt a great deal that I only wish had been covered through out my formal education. Thank you so much for this. I hope to find additional ones I can take to keep on expanding my knowledge. Thank you for the intersectional approach through out the course, the guest speakers, integrating different modalities of learning through out, and really just all of it.

I thoroughly enjoyed learning about Indigenous Canada. I appreciated all the work that went into teaching the learners about the terrible injustices that happened and are still happening in Canada. I loved having three main narrators to teach the course content. It was so positive ending with a beautiful art piece that encompassed the teaching of each module.

Excellent course. Certainly helped me in the understanding and appreciation of not only Indigenous issues but also to those of other non-dominant communities and voices overall. We as a society still have much work to do in dismantling systemantic racism and false colonial narratives still presently held by a large number of people, whether knowingly or not.

This course was extensive and broad in topic; covering past and present issues that Indigenous peoples face. I also learned about the incredible richness of society then and now. As a settler, I already knew about residential schools and other horrible examples of our heteropatriarchal society, but I learned so much more. Thank you for this incredible course.

This course has taught me more than any other course I've taken in my life (74 years). It has been emotional, eye opening, and has fostered an understanding of what I didn't understand in the past. It has affected me in ways that will stay with me. This course needs to be made available like this again, in the future, so more people can participate and learn.

This was a very well done course. I enjoyed the various topics discussed and the paintings that went along with the topics. As a non-Indigenous person I learned a lot about the Indigenous peoples and their cultures. They are truely the lands caretakers and they should be respected for all their knowledge and beliefs. Thank you for such a wonderful course!

I found this course to be the perfect amount of time commitment and covered just enough material that I would retain it. Sadly I knew very little about the history of the land and Indigenous peoples. I hope that others take this opportunity to begin to learn what we were not taught in the school system and hope that we continue to move forward and do better.

So good, thanks! I did the course along with Dan Levy's YouTube discussions with Drs. Bear & Gareau and guests. Really helpful in tackling the larger issues of what to do with this wonderful knowledge and becoming a better settler ally. I will continually work at my craft of decolonization and destabilizing my settler ideology. Muchas gracias from Mexico!!!!

This course is amazing! As a Vietnamese-Canadian settler in Tkaronto, I'm so shocked that I have not learned this in school as a kid, but more disappointed that I have not learned sooner. I am grateful for this course and its educators for gently guiding me to learn more about the the history of Indigenous folks on this land. I look forward to learning more.

I may have already written a review but never the less. Thank you! If you are thinking or wanting to lean more about Canadian history, indigenous history or colonialism, this course is for you. I was moved at more then one of the modules. Helped me answer questions about my own past. Thank you again, looking forward to taking more courses with Coursera.

This was one of the most well done courses I have ever done. From the presentation to all the information and knowledge shared I was in awe every week with what I learnt. Thank you to all the faculty and people involved to help make this information available and possible for students like me who wanted to have a different view and understanding. Thank you.

Thank you for the work that was put in to this course to help bring Indigenous history, perspectives and voices to us as students. It has made more more aware and hopefully more respectful as I navigate the current world. It has also made more more curious and interested in exploring in more detail many of the topics covered. I still have so much to learn!

The course provided excellent insight into the history of all aspects of Indigenous peoples in Canada. It provides the context and information that was left out of history books and school curriculum and that needs to change! Every single Canadian should take this course to truly understand how Canada came to be and why Truth and Reconciliation is so vital.

Excellent, I loved the course and the teachers, except the part about women was slightly not scientific, and lacked some understanding of the European systems, which are not really patriarchal in this simplistic sense, as can be seen by women being Queens, etc. I loved the course, though. I wish there were more stories there, though, and customs. Thank you.