Scholarship Honours Trailblazing Native Studies Teacher Harriet Jacobs

Scholarship honours trailblazing native studies teacher Harriet Jacobs

A graduation award for Indigenous students has been created to honour and celebrate the legacy of Harriet Jacobs, the first Native studies teacher at Wallaceburg District secondary school.

Scholarship honours trailblazing native studies teacher Harriet Jacobs

A graduation award for Indigenous students has been created to honour and celebrate the legacy of Harriet Jacobs, the first Native studies teacher at Wallaceburg District secondary school.

Scholarship honours trailblazing native studies teacher Harriet Jacobs

A graduation award for Indigenous students has been created to honour and celebrate the legacy of Harriet Jacobs, the first Native studies teacher at Wallaceburg District secondary school.

LKDSB creates graduation award to honour late Indigenous teacher

The late Harriet Jacobs was the first Native Studies teacher at the Wallaceburg District Secondary School.

LKDSB creates graduation award to honour late Indigenous teacher

The late Harriet Jacobs was the first Native Studies teacher at the Wallaceburg District Secondary School.

LKDSB honours the life and legacy of Harriet Jacobs

The Lambton Kent District School Board is joining the community in mourning the death of Harriet Jacobs, who passed away peacefully on Nov. 16 at age 88. Jacobs is remembered as a trailblazer whose vision reshaped education for Indigenous students across the board. Beginning her work in 1975, she became the first Native Studies teacher at Wallaceburg District Secondary School at a time, the board said, when “Indigenous voices were often marginal…