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STEM instructors who want to decolonize and Indigenize their teaching now have a trusted place to begin their journeys thanks to an online resource developed by students and researchers at SFU.

The is an archive of academic and non-academic STEM-related decolonization and Indigenization resources. The collection prioritizes locally based resources surrounding SFU, showcasing the research and collaborative work done with our local communities while expanding to highlight areas where further focus is needed. The resources are curated and presented in ways that honour Indigenous worldviews and knowledge systems.

SFU Biology graduate Megan Donahue (Xwisten First Nation), says participating in the creation of the website has made her think and feel differently about her field of study.

鈥淎s an Indigenous student in STEM, the experience of creating this resource was transformative for me. We spent a lot of time as a group together exploring how everything is connected within STEM and with Indigenous worldviews and consulting with community. These conversations opened my mind to how Indigenous ways of knowing have a role in STEM 鈥� Before this, it felt like Indigenous Peoples was only ever a topic discussed in history class鈥攅specially when I was in high school I struggled with that. Putting together the site has made me relate to STEM in a much different, deeper way and I want other students to have that same experience.鈥�

Donahue explains that the site is designed to help instructors approach content in ways that disrupt colonial ways of thinking.

鈥淲e wanted to avoid just placing things in a list. Instead, the information is presented in a way that shows how one topic grows into another, larger topic and where STEM sits in relation to Indigenous world views. The goal is that people don鈥檛 just come in, get a resource and go, but that they spend some time to explore the site with an open mind鈥攂oth topics related to their discipline and others connected to it. This exploration is part of the decolonization and Indigenization journey.鈥�

The collection is organized following Indigenous Initiatives and Instruction Librarian Ashley Edward's (Red River M茅tis-settler) Indigenous Curriculum Resource Centre Classification: A Locally Modified Brian Deer Classification System.

The DISTEM site was funded by SFU's Aboriginal Strategic Initiative, Transforming Inquiry into Learning and Teaching (TILT), and the Faculty of Science with support from SFU's Digital Humanities Innovation Lab. It was led by TILT postdoctoral fellow in social justice and decolonization Nawal Musleh-Motut.

The resource comes at a time when have complicated the search for reliable Indigenous learning resources.

According to university lecturer and associate dean (Science) Sarah Johnson, knowing the content has been verified and can all be found in one place is welcome news. 鈥淚t can be very challenging to find Indigenous resources in certain fields within STEM, like physics, which poses yet another barrier. I think the site will provide instructors with direction on where to start.鈥�

University lecturer (Criminology) and TILT director Sheri Fabian echoes this sentiment. 鈥淲e will never be done with decolonizing鈥� we cannot undo centuries of history. But every step instructors take shows our students that we are paying attention鈥攁nd that matters to them. That鈥檚 important.鈥�