Summary

Professor: “Where is your voice? There is no Indigenous knowledge in your work.”Student: “I have always needed to do this to survive in school. What makes you think I can just change this now?”This exchange resulted in momentum to challenge current oppressive systems. We believe Indigenous students and faculty should not push aside Indigenous knowledge (IK) to ‘survive’ westernized systems. As recent graduates and faculty members, we honour our shared responsibility to uphold TRC Calls to Action (2015) in nursing education. Objectives: Our focus is promoting equity, cultural safety, and decolonizing nursing education by critically examining how IK is taken up by institutions. Priorities are aligned with TRC (2015) call to action #24 for nursing education to integrate intercultural competency, conflict resolution, human rights, and anti-racism.