Indian Residential School & A Family Experience with EJ Kwandibens

Shingwauk Anishinaabe Students Association

A conversation about residential schools, in alignment with Indigenous Awareness and Pride Month

EJ will critically reflect the recent discovery of the 215 remains found at the former Kamploops Indian Residential School on Tk&#x27;emlups te Secwepemc First Nation in Kamploops, B.C. and how this impacts Indian Residential School survivors and children of survivors with the need to heal moving forward. EJ will explore the retriggered and retraumatization that occurs with each discovery and what this means in the healing and reconciliations processes.

EJ Kwandibens, also known as Anikay-Keesic, is a member of the Loon Clan and is of Northern Woodland Anishiinaabe (Ojibway) of the Waahbiidaahgaah (Whitesand) First Nation community which is a part of the Robinson Superior 1850 Treaty region located 21 hours north of Toronto.EJ has over two decades of work experience for cultural awareness development in healthy living. He has worked across many sectors such as, Educational Institutions, Correctional Services, Social Services, Child Welfare and Mental Health. He advocates the power of change through Indigenous Cultural Modalities.The values and principles guiding his Indigenous ways of knowing and being stems from intergenerational knowledge transfer. Oral traditions form the foundation of Aboriginal societies, connecting speaker and listener in communal experience and uniting past and present in memory. The philosophy of “Miino Biimaahdizewin: Balanced Good Life” is a reclamation of the self and one’s ability to be interconnected through a holistic cultural lens. EJ&#x27;s philosophy is quite simple:&quot;...life is a precious gift given to us from the creator. The physical form of life is merely an instrument or a vessel that we must nurture and protect as this is our individual sacred lodge. The key is to unite the physical and spiritual aspects of the self which creates a balanced holistic self. This process requires time, patience and understanding of the unique kinship one has with the land and all its spiritual entities. It is through this reclamation of the self, true happiness and heighten consciousness manifests itself&quot;. ~ Anikay-Keesic

This online event can be accessed through Zoom <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85622392879?pwd=YXlqZ1VqSE0vRjRnclRtQTY5RVJOZz09" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.

Presented by Shingwauk Anishinaabe Student's Association in partnership with Algoma University Equity Diversity and Inclusion Committee, and Shingwauk Kinoomaage Gamig as part of Indigenous Peoples and History Month.

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