Łuwechōn · Tahltan Territory · obsidianladybug.com
Building education systems that remember who they're for.
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Eghadēn Ke'ehdī — Carlene Quock — is a Tahltan educator, scholar, and matriarch with twenty years of classroom practice in northern British Columbia and a Master of Education in Indigenous Education from UBC.
Obsidian Ladybug Education Systems Consulting™ supports Indigenous nations, school districts, and educational leaders in building education systems that are relationally coherent, culturally sovereign, and structurally transformative.
Every session is anchored by the Beaded Territorial Teaching Map — an original Tahltan cultural artifact encoding the trail systems of Tahltan territory in size 13 seed beads, beaded on home-tanned moose hide with Tenēthma's needle.
Ka'a jāni as̱it'īn. We are still here.
We remembered, therefore I know. Matriarchal Metacognition — eghadēn ke'ehdī
Obsidian Ladybug supports Indigenous nations, school districts, and educational leaders in building education systems that are relationally coherent, culturally sovereign, and structurally transformative. Every engagement begins with relationship — not a program.
A structured, relational process to understand where your school or district stands — honestly. Identifies gaps, strengths, and the concrete next steps that will matter most to Indigenous students and families.
Deep review of existing curriculum for omission, misrepresentation, and missed opportunity. Co-design of culturally grounded additions that honour sovereignty and serve all learners.
Workshops designed to shift how educators understand their role in Indigenous student success — not as a checkbox, but as a relational responsibility rooted in truth and right relationship.
Long-range planning support for districts and nations building Indigenous education strategies. Grounded in community voice, legislative accountability, and sustainable implementation.
Access to the Transferable Edition of the Tāłtān Matriarchal Education Ecosystem — a comprehensive curriculum framework offered in right relationship for districts and nations ready to go deeper.
Powerful presentations for staff days, community gatherings, and institutional events. Rooted in story, grounded in research, and designed to move people toward meaningful action.
The Matriarchal Education Ecosystem is not a program to be delivered. It is a comprehensive educational framework — built over twenty years of classroom practice in Tahltan territory — that changes what systems see when they look at Indigenous learners.
The MEE rests on thirteen Teaching Trails organized across Healing, Leadership, Language and Culture, Land Stewardship, Restorative Balance, Arts and Cultural Expression, Community Governance, Youth Mentorship, Men and Boys Pathways, Digital Storytelling, Land Movement, Matriarchal Sciences, and Ceremony and Identity.
It is offered through Obsidian Ladybug in two editions: the Transferable Edition — made available to school districts, nations, and educational leaders through consulting engagement — and the Tahltan Edition, which is sovereign and moves only through Nation-guided processes.
The curriculum is not a supplement. It is the architecture.
For Educators
Shifts how teachers understand their role — from delivering content to building relationship. Educators leave knowing what it means to hold Indigenous knowledge as epistemological ground, not add-on.
For Systems
Gives districts and nations structural architecture for Indigenous education — not a checklist, but a living framework that builds coherence across curriculum, pedagogy, and community relationship.
For Children and Community
Students see themselves in the curriculum — their lineage, their territory, their governance, their future. Community knowledge is treated as primary. The school becomes a place that remembers who it's for.
Obsidian Ladybug is built on a simple truth: Indigenous education fails when it treats Indigenous knowledge as a supplement to a system that was never designed to include it. Real transformation requires architecture — new structures, new relationships, new ways of knowing who belongs.
The consulting work draws on the Tāłtān Matriarchal Education Ecosystem (MEE) — a comprehensive educational framework developed through decades of classroom practice and original Indigenous scholarship. It is not a program to be implemented. It is a way of seeing that changes what you build.
Every school district engagement is a relationship. We begin where you are, move at the pace trust allows, and stay until the work takes root.
Matriarchal Metacognition
Indigenous knowledge was transmitted, sustained, and carried forward by matriarchs across generations. This is the epistemological prior condition — not a supplement to Western theory, but the ground beneath it.
Community Actualization
The highest expression of human potential is not individual achievement. It is collective flourishing — a community that knows itself, governs itself, and raises its children in wholeness.
The Sixth Principle
Wholeness is non-exclusionary. A curriculum, a classroom, or a system that excludes is not whole. Ancient Tahltan governance knew this. The work is recovery as much as it is innovation.
Obsidian Ladybug Education Systems Consulting is grounded in Tahltan Territory — the homeland of the Tahltan Nation, whose sovereignty over their lands, knowledge systems, and governance has never been ceded. This work is offered in that spirit.
Every engagement begins with a conversation. Reach out to share what your school or district is working toward — and we'll explore together what that work might look like.
There is no intake form that replaces a real conversation. This one is the first step.