Virtual Lecture Series - Understanding Current Indigenous Issues

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This lecture series will address the historic relationship between Indigenous peoples and Canada

Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux, Understanding Current Indigenous IssuesJanuary 12, 2023: What’s in a creation story?Cynthia will discuss the value of Indigenous stories and knowing your own creation story. Indigenous creation stories have informed the survival and resiliency of Indigenous peoples and are still taught and regarded as foundational instructions for living by elders and knowledge keepers.January 19, 2023: What does Indigenous prophesy tell us?Looking at what Indigenous peoples were and are saying about past, present and future conditions and the possibilities for illuminating today’s fight against climate change. Tribal groups across Turtle Island have been trying to tell the western world what was coming and what to do. What is your response to these messages?January 26, 2023: The story of treaty in CanadaThere is a complete foundation of knowledge, experience and history that has formed the relationship between Indigenous and government leaders, agreements and outcomes. The treaties of Canada are living documents that have not been fulfilled. They are the promise of our ancestors and perhaps a pathway back to the land for all humanity.February 2, 2023: Legislation and following the trail of critical reportsHow have federal legislation, cumulative white papers and government reports worked together to dismiss Indigenous claims, demand assimilation, manifest racism against Indigenous peoples and support the trajectory of colonialism in Canada? A discussion of some of the critical reports and legislation that have framed the relationship to date.Where do we go from here and what do the 10 principles and the 94 calls to action bring to this critical discussion?February 9, 2023: Seven teachings and seven generationsWhat are the seven grandfather teachings and how are they used to teach and inform indigenizing and decolonizing processes? What is the story of seven generations back, seven generations forward, and igniting the eighth fire?February 16, 2023: What is historic and intergenerational trauma?There have been significant impacts from historic and intergenerational trauma, with the results showing up in child welfare, MMIW, intractable poverty, many insecurities, and ongoing discrimination in education, health and justice. What do these impacts look like today? What have the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal and Cindy Blackstock placed on the table?February 23, 2023: Land claims and self-governanceOnce we understand the treaty process we have access to the land claims process and why continuing resolution will benefit Canadians. What are land claims, and why do they matter today and into the future? Cynthia will describe some significant and recent land claims settlements and open a discussion on what they mean for Indigenous peoples.March 2, 2023: Implementing UNDRIP and reconciliation in CanadaWe will take apart the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to work out an understanding of where and how this declaration will play a role in the future of Canada. We will look at the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples and work together to unbundle what reconciliation is, means, and could be if we had access to the full truth, as well as the role it plays in changing the trajectory of human relations.

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