Date: Jun 27, 2025
Location: Brantford, CA
Company: Wilfrid Laurier University
Faculty/Academic Area: Faculty of Liberal Arts
Department: Indigenous Studies
Campus: Brantford
Employee Group: WLUFA
Requisition ID: 9490
Position Title: ID/YC208 BR - Indigenous Play and Games
Term: Fall 2025
Days/Times: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4:00PM – 5:20PM
Hours per week/Hours Total: 3/36
Type of Course: In-person
Anticipated Class Size: 56
Posted on: June 26, 2025
Posting ends: July 9, 2025
Position Summary: Games and sports have been central to developing a socially cohesive environment within Indigenous communities. Many of the games played today were invented in Indigenous communities. Games are an important way to understand a people’s worldview, and playing and understanding games teaches important aspects of Indigenous cultures. Games are played, created and reinvented in Indigenous communities to continue to provide recreation, strengthen social connections, share and sustain cultures, and teach traditional knowledge. In this course, students will be introduced to the cultural, social and political significance of Indigenous games, and will have opportunities to see how play contributes to Indigenous lives and cultures.
Qualifications – Required: Master’s Degree or equivalent lived experience.
Qualifications – Other: Preference will be given to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit (FNMI) people who are accountable to, and have strong ties with, Indigenous communities, and who can clearly articulate their pedagogy for mobilizing FNMI knowledge.
Salary: $9206.40
Application Deadline: July 9, 2025

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