/indigenous-studies/taxonomy/term/187/all en /indigenous-studies/article/events/public-talk-brandon-mitchell-mikmaq-graphic-artist-and-published-author <p><b>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. </b></p> Mon, 20 Nov 2023 21:15:53 +0000 Indigenous Studies Program 12789 at /indigenous-studies /indigenous-studies/article/owisokon-lahache-mcgills-indigenous-knowledge-holder-0 <p>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.</p> Wed, 12 Apr 2023 20:48:26 +0000 Indigenous Studies 12733 at /indigenous-studies /indigenous-studies/article/determining-our-future-self-governance-nunavik-inuit-indigenous-knowledge-holder-series <p>A conversation with Lisa Qiluqqi Koperqualuk was held, for the 2021 Indigenous Knowledge Holder for the McGill Indigenous Studies Minor Program, as she taught her teachings of the interconnections between community, family, land, and animal life, through story.</p> Wed, 12 Apr 2023 21:04:40 +0000 Indigenous Studies Program 12734 at /indigenous-studies /indigenous-studies/article/what-it-means-be-knowledge-holder-open-first-peoples-house-and-members-mcgill-indigenous-community <p>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.</p> Wed, 22 Mar 2023 19:16:30 +0000 Indigenous Studies 12726 at /indigenous-studies /indigenous-studies/article/events/my-life-avatar <p>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.</p> Mon, 08 May 2023 15:09:14 +0000 Indigenous Studies 12762 at /indigenous-studies /indigenous-studies/article/origins-interpretations-and-impacts-use-indigenous-imagery-north-american-sports <p>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 McGill's men's sports teams changed.</p> Thu, 13 Apr 2023 13:40:08 +0000 Indigenous Studies 12735 at /indigenous-studies /indigenous-studies/article/understanding-cultural-appropriation-consequences-and-strategies-reclamation-and-defiance <p>The Indigenous Studies Program and the SSMU Indigenous Affairs Commissioner hosted a panel discussion about cultural appropriation.</p> <p> </p> <p>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? <br /> This panel was moderated by Tomas Jirousek (Kainai; SSMU Indigenous Affairs Commissioner).</p> <p>The panelists that were present were Dr. Jennifer Guiliano, Dr. Rachel Zellars, and Stephen Puskas.</p> Thu, 13 Apr 2023 13:52:34 +0000 Indigenous Studies 12736 at /indigenous-studies /indigenous-studies/article/inuit-arnait-isumanivi-amma-sananngoagat-inuit-women-art <p>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.</p> Thu, 13 Apr 2023 14:02:05 +0000 Indigenous Studies Program 12737 at /indigenous-studies /indigenous-studies/article/land-love-and-other-resistances-conversation-between-nasrin-himada-and-wanda-nanibush <p> </p> <p>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. </p> Thu, 13 Apr 2023 14:39:29 +0000 Indigenous Studies 12738 at /indigenous-studies /indigenous-studies/article/hungry-listening-ethnographic-redress <p>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”. <br /> <br /></p> Thu, 13 Apr 2023 14:44:17 +0000 Indigenous Studies 12739 at /indigenous-studies /indigenous-studies/article/events/2018-indigenous-knowledge-holder-ryan-mcmahon <p>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.</p> Mon, 08 May 2023 15:10:59 +0000 Indigenous Studies 12763 at /indigenous-studies /indigenous-studies/article/indigeneity-and-north-east-india-cinematic-vision <p>In this talk, Professor Debashree Dattaray, MISC Visiting Scholar from Jadavpur University, discussed the profound paradox that is the North East of India today: a place which simultaneously represents the frontiers of globalization as well as a heritage of Indigenous traditions and cultures. Mainstream Indian films, popular media, and news more than often posit the Northeast as the “other” from patronizing, or limited, perspectives.</p> Thu, 13 Apr 2023 15:01:32 +0000 Indigenous Studies Program 12740 at /indigenous-studies /indigenous-studies/article/biopolitics-and-beyond-new-directions-indigenous-studies <p> </p> <p>From climate change, to pipeline protests and environmental justice movements, to conceptualizations of kinship with living and non-living beings, emerging scholarship from Indigenous Studies is broadening visions of how to live in the twenty-first century. This keynote lecture and panel discussion featured the work of scholars who are pushing the boundaries of science and technology studies.</p> <p>Lecture: "Caretaking Relations, Not American Dreaming: #IdleNoMore, #BlackLivesMatter, and #NoDAPL"</p> Thu, 13 Apr 2023 15:40:51 +0000 Indigenous Studies Program 12745 at /indigenous-studies /indigenous-studies/article/otipeyimisiw-iskwewak-kihci-kisikohk-metis-space-liveshow <p style="text-align:right"> </p> <p>Molly Swain and Chelsea Vowel landed their spaceship at McGill for a live show of their podcast Métis in Space. They are "unapologetically Indigenous, unabashedly female & unblinkingly nerdy". Their podcast aims to review a sci-fi movie or television episode featuring Indigenous people, tropes and themes from a decolonial perspective. They screened an episode of a classic science fiction show gave some insightful commentary on the Indigenous tropes that came up in the plot.</p> Thu, 13 Apr 2023 15:09:43 +0000 Indigenous Studies 12742 at /indigenous-studies /indigenous-studies/article/books-matter-indigenous-writes <p> </p> <p>"Delgamuukw. Sixties Scoop. Bill C-31. Blood quantum. Appropriation. Two-Spirit. Tsilhqot’in. Pass and permit. Numbered Treaties. Terra nullius.” </p> Thu, 13 Apr 2023 15:05:43 +0000 Indigenous Studies 12741 at /indigenous-studies