Guest Speaker Series

With the national spotlight on the ‘reconciliation’ project and with education seen as a critical site for reconciliatory efforts and Indigenous resurgence, the Center was developed as a vital means to work toward resurgence and as an important response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s (TRC) Calls to Action. Leanne Simpson (2011) writes that “if it is truly time to talk ‘reconciliation’, then how we reconcile is critically important” (p. 24). Simpson (2011) [1] writes that the “process of resurgence” (p. 20) must be Indigenous-driven and –led. Further, that Indigenous resurgence is about “creating a space of storied presencing, alternative imaginings, transformation, [and] reclamation” (p. 96). In this way Indigenous resurgence is an emergent construct that can be taken up in relation to place-specific Indigenous educational research contexts.Simpson, L. (2011). Dancing On Our Turtle’s Back: Stories of Nishmaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence and a new Emergence. Winnipeg, MB: Arbeiter Ring Press.