Indigegogy means “Indigenous Pedagogy”, a placeholder signifying the importance of culturally sensitive concepts of teaching and learning. The term is coined by the Opaskwayak Cree Elder and retired Professor Stan Wilson. Pedagogy means that as an educator especially in the mainstream educational system, you have the whole society behind you, the whole culture behind you to support your position as an educator. Indigegogy challenges this normative.
For more on Indigegogy, you can read more from Stan Wilson and Barbara Schellhammer.
Mohawk College has a series of resources available on Indigegogy. For more, visit the Mohawk College Library Indigegogy section on their website. The college library also worked in partnership with CIRKL to select an artist to develop an Indigenous book label for the Indigenous resources in the library.
Emma Doreen was the selected artist and shared these thoughts about the project "I started looking at book labels and Indigenous art and imagery to develop ideas. I'm very drawn to floral imagery in Indigenous artwork, which inspired me to include it. As a Mohawk and Ojibwe person, strawberries and the medicine wheel keep me connected to my culture. My book label shows a medicine wheel with strawberry plants and flowers framing it. I wanted to have a recognizable Indigenous symbol for it to be easy for people to identify a book to be Indigenous."