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Origins, Interpretations, and Impacts: On the Use of Indigenous Imagery in North American Sports

18 Nov 2018

C. Richard King gave a keynote on the history and impact of the usage of Indigenous imagery as mascotry in North American sports in the wake of the #ChangeTheName movement, which sought to have the...

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Understanding Cultural Appropriation- Consequences and Strategies of Reclamation and Defiance

1 Nov 2018

The Indigenous Studies Program and the SSMU Indigenous Affairs Commissioner hosted a panel discussion about cultural appropriation....

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25 Sep 2018

On September 25th, as part of Indigenous Awareness Weeks 2018, the Indigenous Studies Program hosted four incredible Inuit women in involved in the arts: Heather Igloliorte (釗晥釔冡挕釗椺摃釔呩枀釕�), Niap...

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Land, Love and other Resistances: A Conversation between Nasrin Himada and Wanda Nanibush

12 Apr 2018

聽 Drew on parallels between land rights, love and resistances enacted through affect, these two writer, scholar, curator, makers find new paths through age old colonial problems.聽

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Hungry Listening, Ethnographic Redress

4 Apr 2018

In 1929, folklorist Marius Barbeau writes about the significant collection of Indigenous songs represented in the Canadian Museum of History: 鈥渁bout three thousand of these are filed away at the...

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2018 Indigenous Knowledge Holder: Ryan McMahon

20 Mar 2018

In 2018, welcomed our second Indigenous Knowledge Holder: the renowned Ryan McMahon. Ryan is an Anishinaabe comedian, writer, media maker & community activator based out of Treaty #1 territory ...

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Indigeneity and North East India: A Cinematic Vision

14 Mar 2018

In this talk, Professor Debashree Dattaray, MISC Visiting Scholar from Jadavpur University, discussed the profound paradox that is the North East of India today: a place which simultaneously...