Degree student registration opens on March 23, 2023.
IESP student registration will begin on March 27, 2023.
Find out what courses are being offered here. Important registration, payment, withdrawal dates, and deadlines can be found here.
- Indigenous Vendors
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- Awasis Boutique
- Awazibi Pure Maple Syrup
- Barely Bruised Books
- Beaded Dreams
- Birch Bark Coffee Company
- Carvings Nunavut
- Cheekbone Beauty
- DeliaEstelle
- Indigo Arrows
- Kelusi Collective
- Khewa
- Kiwetin
- Kokum Scrunchies
- Mad Aunty
- Métis Spirit
- Mi’kmaq Office Furniture and Interiors
- Mi’kmaq Wooden Art
- Mini Tipi
- Mother Earth Essentials
- Old Tribes
- Pre and Peri
- Raven Reads
- Red Rebel Armour
- Red Road Clothing
- The Rez Life
- Satya Organic Skincare
- Second Aura
- Section Thirty Five
- Sequoia
- Sharing Mela’hma
- Sister Sage
- Spirit Babe
- Turtle Lodge Trading Post
- Wild Canadian Tea
- Yukon Soaps
- Indigenous Reports
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- 2020 Kinàmàgawin Report
- 2022 Kinàmàgawin Progress Report
- Aboriginal Healing in Canada: Studies in Therapeutic Meaning and Practice
- Canada’s Residential Schools: The Inuit and Northern Experience
- Canada’s Residential Schools: The History, Part 1 Origins to 1939
- Canada’s Residential Schools: The History, Part 2 1939 to 2000
- Canada’s Residential Schools: The Legacy
- Canada’s Residential Schools: The Métis Experience
- Canada’s Residential Schools: Missing Children and Unmarked Burials
- Canada’s Residential Schools: Reconciliation
- Cultivating Canada: Reconciliation through the Lens of Cultural Diversity
- Decolonization and Healing: Indigenous Experiences in the United States, New Zealand, Australia and Greenland
- The Gradual Civilization Act, 1857
- The Gradual Enfranchisement Act, 1869
- Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future: Summary of the Final Report of the TRC
- The Indian Act, 1876
- Lessons Learned: Survivor Perspectives
- Métis Perspectives of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and LGBTQ2S+ People
- Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, Volume 1a
- Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, Volume 1b
- The Role of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police During the Indian Residential School System
- The Story of A National Crime
- Suicide Among Aboriginal People in Canada
- TRC’s 94 Calls to Action
- Warrior Caregivers: Understanding the Challenges and Healing of First Nations Men
- Where are the Children Buried? 2015 TRC Report
- Where are the Children Buried? 2015 TRC Report Illustrations
- Indigenous Shows and Films
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- AWAKE: A Dream from Standing Rock
- Angry Inuk
- Beans
- The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open
- Falls Around Her
- The Grizzlies
- Indian Horse
- Indigenous Cinema – National Film Board
- Mohawk Girls (TV Series)
- Night Raiders
- Prey
- Reservations Dogs (TV Series)
- Spirit to Soar
- There’s Something in the Water
- Trickster
- Wind River
- Indigenous-Led Podcasts
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- “All My Relations” hosted by Matika Wilbur and Adrienne Keene
- “Inuit Unikkaangit” hosted by Mary Powder
- “Kinew” by David A. Robertson
- “Muddied Water” hosted by Stephanie Cram
- “Nation to Nation” hosted by Brett Forester
- “Pieces” hosted by Jeremy Ratt
- “This Place” hosted by Rosanna Deerchild
- “Telling our Twisted Histories” hosted by Kaniehtiio Horn
- “The Secret Life of Canada” hosted by Leah-Simon Bowen and Falen Johnson
- “Warrior Life” hosted by Pam Palmater
- Indigenous Artists
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- Alanis Obomsawin
- Buffy Sainte-Marie
- Christi Belcourt
- Crystal Shawanda
- Darryl Nepinak
- Digging Roots
- Gil Cardinal
- The Halluci Nation
- Jayli Wolf
- Jeremy Dutcher
- The Jerry Cans
- Kent Monkman
- Laura Iqaluk
- Lisa Shepherd
- Michael Kanentakeron Mitchell
- Ossie Michelin
- Qajaaq Ellsworth
- Shane Belcourt
- Snotty Nose Rez Kids
- Tanya Tagaq
- Tessa Desnomie
- Thérèse Ottawa
- Tracey Deer
- Twin Flames
- William Prince
- Indigenous Reading List
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- 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act by Bob Joseph
- The 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance – Pam Palmater
- Aboriginal Peoples and Politics: The Indian Land Questions in British Columbia, 1849-1989 – Paul Tennant
- The Accident of Being Lost – Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
- All our Relations- Tanya Talaga
- All the Way: My Life on the Ice – Stephen Brunt and Jordin Tootoo
- Allotment Stories: Indigenous Land Relations under Settler Siege – Daniel Heath Justice and Jean M. O’Brien
- As We Have Always Done – Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
- Bead by Bead: Constitutional Rights and Métis Community – Yvonne Boyer and Larry Chartrand
- Beyond Blood: Rethinking Indigenous Identity – Pam Palmater
- Birdie – Tracey Lindberg
- Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Brotherhood to Nationhood – Pam Palmater
- Buffy Sainte-Marie: It’s My Way – Blair Stonechild
- Colonized Classrooms: Racism, Trauma and Resistance in Post-Secondary Education by Sheila Cote-Meek
- Comparing Mythologies – Tomson Highway
- Dancing on Our Turtle’s Back: Stories of Nishaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence and a New Emergence by Leanne Simpson
- Decolonizing Methodologies: research and Indigenous Peoples – Linda Tuhiwai Smith
- Dream Wheels – Richard Wagamese
- Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
- From the Ashes – Jesse Thistle
- Halfbreed – Maria Campbell
- Highway of Tears by Jessica McDiarmid
- Hope Matters – Lee Maracle, Columpa Bobb, Tania Carter
- In Good Relation – Sarah Nickel
- The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America by Thomas King
- Indian Horse – Richard Wagamese
- Indians on Vacation – Thomas King
- Indigenous Men and Masculinities – Kim Anderson and Robert Innes
- Indigenous Nationhood – Pam Palmater
- Indigenous Relations: Insights, Tips and Suggestions to Make Reconciliation a Reality by Bob Joseph and Cynthia Joseph
- Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture – Shari M. Huhndorf, Jeanne Perreault, Cheryl Suzack
- Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis and Inuit Issues in Canada by Chelsea Vowel
- Keetsahnak Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous – Kim Anderson, Christi Belcourt, Maria Campbell
- Legacy: Trauma, Story and Indigenous Healing – Suzanne Methot
- Life Among the Qallunaat – Mini Adola Freeman
- Life Stages and Native Women – Kim Anderson
- Living in Indigenous Sovereignty – Elizabeth Carlson-Manathara and Gladys Rowe
- Me Artsy – Drew Hayden Taylor
- Me Funny – Drew Hayden Taylor
- Me Sexy – Drew Hayden Taylor
- Me Tomorrow – Drew Hayden Taylor
- Medicine River – Thomas King
- A Mind Spread Out on the Ground – Alicia Elliott
- Native Studies Keywords – Andrea Smith and Stephanie Nohelini Teves
- News: Postcards from the Four Directions – Drew Hayden Taylor
- Noopiming – Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
- #Not Your Princess – Lisa Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale
- NWAC Library Database
- One Drum: Stories and Ceremonies for a Plane – Richard Wagamese
- One Native Life – Richard Wagamese
- Only Drunk Indians and Children Tell the Truth – Drew Hayden Taylor
- Our Stories: Aboriginal Voices on Canada’s Past – Thomas King, Tomson Highway
- Restoring the Balance: First Nations Women, Community, and Culture – Eric Guimond, Madeleine Dion Stout, Gail Guthrie Valaskakis
- River Woman – Katherena Vermette
- Scars and Stars: Poems – Jesse Thistle
- Seven Fallen Feather by Tanya Talaga
- Son of a Trickster – Eden Robinson
- Split Tooth – Tanya Tagaq
- Stolen Sisters by Emmanuelle Walter
- Stories of the Road Allowance People – Maria Campbell
- The Strangers – Katherena Vermette
- Taking Back Our Spirits – Richard Wagamese
- This is our Territory – Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
- This Place: 150 Years Retold – Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
- To be a Water Protector – Winona Laduke
- True Reconciliation: How to Be a Force for Change – Jody Wilson-Raybould
- The Truth about Stories: A Native Narrative – Thomas King
- The Unexpected Cop – Ernie Louttit
- Up Ghost River: A Chief’s Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History – Edmund Metatawabin
- Unreconciled: Family, Truth, Indigenous Resistance – Jesse Wente
- Unsettling Canada – Arthur Manuel
- Violence Against Indigenous Women – Allison Hargreaves
- Warrior Life – Pam Palmater
- How much do Summer courses cost?
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A half-credit course costs approximately $670. If you take 1.0 credit or more, you are normally charged the Summer UPASS fee (approximately $240) as well as tuition. If you only take online courses, you may be able to opt out of the IPASS. For more information on this, visit Carleton.ca/upass/. See the fee estimator here and payment deadlines here.
- When do Summer courses start?
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The Summer session is divided into two 6-week terms.
- Early Summer: Week of May 4 to June 16 (Exams: June 19-25)
- Late Summer: Week of July 4 to August 16 (Exams: August 19-25)
- Half-credit courses are usually offered in one term, and full credit courses normally span both terms, starting in May and ending in August.
- How many courses can I take?
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Degree students can take up to 2.0 credits in the Summer; as IESP students, you can apply to do the same. The criteria to increase your course load are listed below.
- To take 1.0 credit you need to be eligible to enroll (not suspended from study)
- To take 1.5 credits you must be in “Good Standing” (normally a D+ average or above)
- To take 2.0 credits, you must be admissible to a degree (normally C+ average). You must apply for a course increase if you want to take more than 1.0 credits. Decisions made prior to final grades will be conditional and course loads will be adjusted if your CGPA falls below the requirements.
- Does IESP run over the Summer?
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IESP does not offer workshops or seminars over the summer term, but we do offer support for students:
- An Indigenous Academic Advisor is available all summer to help you apply to programs, discuss your options, and refer you to helpful resources. You can book an appointment by emailing iesp@carleton.ca
- Indigenous counselling
- What are the minimum educational requirements for admission to IESP?
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Applicants must meet the following minimum educational criteria:
- Ontario high school applicants: must submit a complete application and have three Grade 12 credits at the U or M level (4U English is recommended but not required), and be eligible for their OSSD.
- Out-of-province high school applicants: must submit a complete application, have a high school diploma and half their grade 12 credits in the academic/university stream.
- Mature applicants (the IESP office will consider those who have been away from full-time studies for a two-year period and who have not undertaken other college or university study as “mature”): must submit a complete application and will be considered on a case by case basis.
- College/CEGEP applicants: must submit a complete application and may be considered after the completion of one year in a college program.
- University students: please contact iesp@carleton.ca about whether our program can assist you.
- What is the application deadline?
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The IESP application is now open. The application deadline is Friday, June 16, 2023.
Please email iesp@carleton.ca with any inquiries or questions you may have.
- Who should apply?
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First Nation, Métis, and Inuit students interested in beginning university studies who:
- would like academic and social support
- have taken time away from school and wish to start in a supported environment
- have potential but may lack the grades needed for traditional admission
IESP students:
- have come from across Canada
- have diverse educational and/or professional backgrounds and experiences
- have included both recent high school and/or college graduates and mature students who have decided to undertake university studies after years in the workforce
- How do you apply?
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IESP does not base its admissions decisions on high school or college/university grades alone. For this reason, we ask students to submit an Application Package including an application form, two letters of reference from teachers, a personal statement and an application fee.
IESP applications are not made through the Ontario University Application Centre. Instead, you apply directly to the program, below.
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