Conversations between AÉÉIPPSSA and Vice-Presidents of Academic Affairs Jill Scott are ongoing, according to Shah.
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As You Like It: A Radical Retelling creates a necessary obstruction of the status quo in Canadian arts production.
Indigenous student groups hosted programming which culminated with a ceremony at University Square on the morning of Sept. 30.
We must continue to shift our lens to include Indigenous perspectives when we discuss, curate, and philosophize about art.
Claudette Commanda, an Algonquin Anishinabe from Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation in Quebec, has been appointed chancellor of the University of Ottawa. She will succeed Calin Rovinescu following the end of his second mandate later this fall.
Carrie Bourassa, a University of Saskatchewan and research director, made headlines in October for pretending to be Indigenous. Though she is not the first, it begs the question — why do white people pretend to be other races?
“We found this day to be representative for us. We are not going to celebrate the coming of the Europeans, because that was taught to us during our school years. I remember when I was a kid, I used to sing these anthems … congratulating the invaders for having come and discovered us and civilize[d] us,” said U of O professor Marcelo Saavedra-Vargas.
The school in Kitigan Zibi has been in operation since 1980 and awarding high school diplomas since 1985.
“Laurier’s Inclusive Excellence hiring initiative is an example of how the university is taking deliberate steps to enhance Indigenization, equity, diversity and inclusion in our teaching, learning and research,” Anthony Vannelli, Laurier provost and vice-president: academic said in an email statement.
“It was very emotional for me as I had never before heard so much appreciation for non-Indigenous presence,” said Polish retiree Feliks Welfeld.
On Thursday the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Social Sciences (FSS) announced that it is partnering with Taiwan’s National Dong Hwa University College of Indigenous Studies (NDHU-CIS).
“My not-funny joke is that there are about 40,000 people on campus, so we take 10,000 each.” — Tareyn Johnson, Director of Indigenous Affairs at the U of O
The University of Ottawa’s faculty of law has received a $1 million donation from an anonymous donor to help provide scholarships, bursaries, and emergency funding to Indigenous students
“It’s important to show that we’re here and that Indigenous students don’t have to hide their culture,” says Émilie Gauthier, vice-president internal affairs for the Indigenous Student Association.
Trudeau’s administration claims to have made reconciliation and compensation efforts with Canada’s First Nations peoples a key part of their platform.
“The core issue here is respect. Respect for the First Nations of Turtle Island, and respect for Canadian citizens who have to deal with the fallout of the oil industry’s mess.”—Marie, self-described water warrior.
The grant will be dedicated to Cameron’s study, “A Feminist and Indigenous Examination of the National Inquiry: Lessons and Next Steps.”
It’s through this program that Willier’s mother, Stacey Shiner, applied for funding for her daughter and was refused. The government subsequently spent the $110,000 fighting Shiner in the Supreme Court where, in May of this year, she lost the case.
While the country is gearing up for a massive celebration of Canada’s 150th anniversary of Confederation, it’s also important to note the accomplishments of Indigenous peoples before 1867.
This document contains many promising ideas that could improve life for several different types of students. However, it also fails to provide a clear roadmap to achieve to these goals in a lot of places.
The poem “I’ll (Not) Be Home For Christmas” is a direct juxtaposition of Indigenous and settler children’s lives.
Danielle Taillon, a fourth-year mechanical engineering student at the University of Ottawa, has started a project to get Indigenous youth in remote communities involved with science, engineering, and technology.
Instituting mandatory Indigenous history classes would help ensure students are prepared to make equitable decisions as they start the next chapter of their lives.
The rate of suicide amongst Canadian Indigenous youth in particular is five to six times higher than the national average, and within that group, Inuit youth have the highest at 11 times the national average.
Lindberg’s novel centers around Bernice Meetoos, a young Cree woman from Northern Alberta, who leaves her community and travels to British Columbia on a physical, and internal, journey. Although the book is fictional and not based off of Lindberg, who is an As’in’i’wa’chi Ni’yaw Nation Rocky Mountain Cree woman herself hailing from the Kelly Lake Cree Nation community in Alberta, she says that she has drawn from her life for inspiration for it.
