Events

Lii Michif Niiyanaan: We Are Métis - Contemporary Métis voices speaking their truth.

Indigenous Studies — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 15:15:06 +0000

MISC and the Indigenous Studies Program held a film screening of the documentary, “Lii Michif Niiyanaan: We Are Métis” with special guest, Christine Welsh, producer and writer. The film was followed by a panel discussion with Christine Welsh and Scott Berthelette, moderated by Les Sabiston, an audience Q&A, and an informal reception with drinks and appetizers.

About the film:

Lii Michif Niiyanaan: We Are Métis - Contemporary Métis voices speaking their truth.

Haudenosaunee Slavery in the Mediterranean Galley Fleet of Louis XIV

Indigenous Studies — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 15:18:25 +0000

The Indigenous Studies Program held a lecture with our guest, Scott Berthelette. Dr. Scott Berthelette, a Red River Métis, is an assistant professor specializing in the history of New France, Indigenous peoples, the fur trade, and Euro-Indigenous relations in North America. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Saskatchewan.

Haudenosaunee Diplomacy Talk with Dr. Kenneth Atsenhaienton Deer

Indigenous Studies — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 15:24:03 +0000

Haudenosaunee Diplomacy with Dr. Kenneth Atsenhaienton Deer
Date: October 25th, 2024
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: LEA 26

Normalizing “gifted oration” -talk by Tahohtharátye Joe Brant, on November 13th

Indigenous Studies — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 16:53:25 +0000

This was a talk with Tahohtharátye Joe Brant, an advanced Onkwehonwehnéha (Mohawk language) speaker, language activist, and Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto.

Tahohtharátye is from the Tyendinaga Mohawk Nation Territory where he has been an elementary school teacher, principal, and researcher in Kanyen'kéha language documentation.

Public Talk with Brandon Mitchell, Mi'kmaq Graphic Artist and Published Author

Indigenous Studies Program — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 21:15:53 +0000

Public Talk with Brandon Mitchell, Mi'kmaq Graphic Artist and Published Author, November 23rd, 5:30-7:00 pm, Arts W-120, 853 Sherbrooke O.

Owisokon Lahache: ��ɫTVl's Indigenous Knowledge Holder

Indigenous Studies — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 20:48:26 +0000

Owisokon Lahache, is a Haudenosaunee Mohawk artist & matriarch from the Turtle Clan living in Kahnawake. Owisokon's first passion in life is painting. She believes that art can speak volumes and that telling our own stories is important for our children and for other Peoples to gain a better understanding of who we are and about what makes our Spirits sing.

Determining Our Future: Self Governance for Nunavik Inuit: Indigenous Knowledge Holder Series

Indigenous Studies Program — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 21:04:40 +0000

A conversation with Lisa Qiluqqi Koperqualuk was held, for the 2021 Indigenous Knowledge Holder for the ��ɫTVl Indigenous Studies Minor Program, as she taught her teachings of the interconnections between community, family, land, and animal life, through story.

Emily Johnson: What it Means to be a Knowledge Holder

Indigenous Studies — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 19:16:30 +0000

Emily Johnson is an artist who makes body-based work. She is a land and water protector and an organizer for justice, sovereignty and well-being. A Bessie Award-winning choreographer, Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of the Doris Duke Artist Award, she is based in Lenapehoking / New York City. Emily is of the Yup’ik Nation, and since 1998 has created work that considers the experience of sensing and seeing performance.

My Life As an Avatar

Indigenous Studies — Mon, 08 May 2023 15:09:14 +0000

The 2019 Indigenous Knowledge Holder is Skawennati, she is a Kahnawake-born artist whose work addresses history, the future, and change from her perspective as both an urban Mohawk woman and a cyberpunk avatar. She is co-director of Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace at Concordia University.

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

Indigenous Studies — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 13:40:08 +0000

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 name of ��ɫTVl's men's sports teams changed.

Understanding Cultural Appropriation- Consequences and Strategies of Reclamation and Defiance

Indigenous Studies — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 13:52:34 +0000

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

Debates about cultural appropriation have been rife in the past few years and often surface around Halloween... What is cultural appropriation? Who does it harm?
This panel was moderated by Tomas Jirousek (Kainai; SSMU Indigenous Affairs Commissioner).

The panelists that were present were Dr. Jennifer Guiliano, Dr. Rachel Zellars, and Stephen Puskas.

ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐊᕐᓇᐃᑦ ᐃᓱᒪᓂᕕ ᐊᒻᒪ ᓴᓇᙳᐊᒐᑦ –Inuit Women in Art

Indigenous Studies Program — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 14:02:05 +0000

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 (ᓯᕈ ᐃᒡᓗᓕᐅᖅᑎ), Niap Saunders (ᓂᐊᑉ ᓴᓐᑐᔅ), Nina Segalowitz (ᓂᓇ ᓯᒐᓗᕕᑦᔅ), and Beatrice Deer (ᐱᐊᑐᐊᔅ ᑎᐅ). The panelist spoke about their artistic practice and work, and had a discussion with members of the audience. After presentations by each of the panelists, a warm and earnest discussion was had with the audience.

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

Indigenous Studies — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 14:39:29 +0000

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.

Hungry Listening, Ethnographic Redress

Indigenous Studies — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 14:44:17 +0000

In 1929, folklorist Marius Barbeau writes about the significant collection of Indigenous songs represented in the Canadian Museum of History: “about three thousand of these are filed away at the museum.” Though efforts have been made by many museums in Canada to respond to Indigenous calls for the return and repatriation of Indigenous belongings, similar initiatives have yet to occur for songs that remain incarcerated in museum archives. This talk proposed Indigenous-defined methods of ethnographic redress that challenge settler colonial forms of “hungry listening”.

2018 Indigenous Knowledge Holder: Ryan McMahon

Indigenous Studies — Mon, 08 May 2023 15:10:59 +0000

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 (Winnipeg, MB). He has recorded a number of national comedy specials with CBC, appeared at Just For Laughs and the Winnipeg Comedy Festival. He recently finished the cross-country tour of his comedy show Wreck-On Silly Nation.