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The professional trajectories and initial teacher/educator education experiences of 5 Indigenous early childhood educators and teachers provide insight into the challenges of becoming credentialed. We propose that accredited programs should be designed in collaboration with northern Indigenous leaders in order to respond to the identified challenges.  \nKeywords: northern rural Indigenous communities, professional development, northern rural teacher education, early childhood educator  \nShelley Stagg Peterson is a professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning where she teaches graduate courses and conducts research in literacy teaching and learning, play-based learning in early childhood contexts, and rural education.  \nEmail: [shelleystagg.peterson@utoronto.ca](shelleystagg.peterson@utoronto.ca)  \nLori Huston, Registered ECE, currently completing a M.Ed. ECE with UBC. Lori's background includes coordination and a part-time faculty in the Indigenous ECE post-secondary education diploma program with Oshki-Wenjack, Lori is also a current council member of the College of ECE in Ontario.  \nEmail: [le.huston@outlook.com](le.huston@outlook.com)  \nRoxanne Loon, Registered ECE, Alumni with Oshki-Wenjack ECE Diploma program, Child Care supervisor at Migizi Wazason Child Care Centre Grassy Narrows, First Nation.  \nEmail: [roxanneloon@hotmail.com](roxanneloon@hotmail.com)  \nThe Truth and Reconciliation Commission ’s (2015) calls to action challenge all levels of government to develop culturally appropriate early childhood education programs for Indigenous families. The Ontario provincial government’s role in Indigenous Early Learning and Child Care includes funding, licensing, and regulating childcare and ensuring that qualified educators staff early learning and childcare centres. In 2014, the Ontario Ministry of Education created the Child Care and Early Years Act (CCEYA) requiring that at least half of the staff in a kindergarten classroom within a licensed childcare program be qualified as Registered Early Childhood Educators (RECEs or ECEs) who are in good standing with the College of Early Childhood Educators of Ontario, a regulatory body created by the Early Childhood Educators Act in 2007. RECE or ECE accreditation requires successful completion of an approved diploma program in early childhood education (Ontario Ministry of Education, 2019) .  \nA second mandate, which had implications for ECEs in First Nations communities, required that school boards offer full-day kindergarten for 2 years; children enter junior kindergarten at age 4 and senior kindergarten at age 5 (Ontario Ministry of Education, 2018) . Included in this mandate is the expectation that a registered ECE will work alongside a licensed teacher in kindergarten classrooms.  \nEducator/teacher positions in Aboriginal Head Start programs, which are communitybased early childhood programs for Indigenous children and their families (Ontario Aboriginal Head Start Association, 2018), and in kindergarten classrooms in remote northern Ontario First Nations communities often have been filled by community members who do not hold provincial qualifications. As a result, the provincial mandates created an immediate need for initial educator/teacher education programs for First Nations educators and teachers. 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