2022 A. Jean de Grandpr茅 Lecture
The 2022 A. Jean de Grandpr茅 Lecture will be held September 7th, welcoming Raven Swamp, Turtle Clan of Kahnaw脿:ke Mohawk Territory, Greenhouse Facilitator at Karonhian贸nhnha Tsi Ionterihwaienst谩hkhwa and the co-founder of the grassroots initiative the Kahnaw脿:ke Community Garden. She will be presenting her talk entitled 鈥淏uilding Community from Indigenous Food Security鈥�.
The event will be held both in person and online. For people choosing to attend in person, we ask that you register before the event.
Refreshments will also be served during the event.
The lecture will be live-streamed on the and will be available to watch after the event. Even if you are watching online, you can ask our speaker questions using the form provided. You can submit questions both before and during the event.
Speaker
Raven Swamp
Greenhouse Facilitator, Karonhian贸nhnha Tsi Ionterihwaienst谩hkhwa
Raven Swamp is currently the Greenhouse Facilitator at Karonhian贸nhnha Tsi Ionterihwaienst谩hkhwa elementary school and a co-founding member of the grassroots initiative the Kahnaw脿:ke Community Garden, which aims to revitalize traditional planting practices within the community of Kahnaw脿:ke. In 2017 she was crowned with the title of Miss Indian World at the Gathering of Nations Powwow and reigned on a platform of Indigenous Language Revitalization and Indigenous Food Sovereignty. Throughout her travels across Turtle Island, she addressed the importance of these practices and their impact on the identities of Indigenous Peoples. It is her personal belief that with the full implementation of these practices in daily life we may restore a traditional way of being as lost through years of colonization.
Moderator
Murray Humphries
Associate Professor, Department of Natural Resource Sciences, Director, Center for Indigenous Peoples鈥� Nutrition and Environment (CINE)
Murray Humphries鈥檚 research focuses on environmental determinants of wildlife physiology, behaviour, and trophic interactions, as well as the contributions of wildlife conservation to the traditional food systems of Indigenous Peoples. Since 2010, Prof. Humphries has served as academic director of McGill鈥檚 Centre for Indigenous Peoples鈥� Nutrition and Environment, an interdisciplinary research centre dedicated to community-based research on food and the environment. Murray also holds the McGill Chair in Northern Research, funded by the Institut Nordique du Qu茅bec. In this role, Murray initiated and currently leads McGill North, a network of northern and circumpolar researchers at McGill, including professors, post-docs, and graduate students from 9 faculties and more than 20 departments/units. His teaching curriculum has recently expanded to a new Indigenous success pathway program, developed in partnership with Cree organizations based in northern Quebec, to provide professional development training in fish and wildlife sciences for community officers.
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