Presenter: Tracey Whiteye This session –The Importance of Indigenous Land-based Healing- is open to Indigenous registrants only. Tracey Whiteye will talk about meaningful ways to heal from the land and…
Presenter: Tracey Whiteye Throughout the 1960s, Indigenous children were forcibly removed or ‘scooped’ from their homes, communities, and families to be adopted into mostly non-Indigenous, middle-class families. Many of the…
Presenter: Tina Stevens and Tracey Whiteye There is a fundamental difference between the principles of Eurocentric worldview colonial structures of child welfare practice and standards versus Indigenous practice of caring…
Presenter: Gloria Thomson In this session, Métis Teachings, Gloria Thomson will present the evolvement of the Métis as a distinct People and share the impact of that history as it affected her…
Presenter: Tracey Whiteye For years, Indigenous people have experienced systemic racism, violence, and discrimination. The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls brought attention to the disturbing…
Presenter: Tracey Whiteye In this session, Shannen's Dream and Jordan's Principle, Tracey Whiteye will discuss the rights of Indigenous children to receive a proper education and equitable access to all…
Presenter: Mary-Anne Kechego In this session, The Importance of Growing Gardens, Mary-Anne Kechego will talk about the importance of growing gardens as a way to remind us that all the…
Presented by Tracey Whiteye and Tina Stevens The Medicine Wheel teaching is a wholistic Indigenous worldview that is fundamental to the values and principles of the Anishinaabe ways of seeing,…
Presented by Tracey Whiteye In this session, Tracey Whiteye shares her story as an Indigenous woman and second-generation residential school Survivor who fought to regain her culture and language through the healing…
Presented by Gloria Thomson In Métis Teachings, Gloria Thomson presents the evolvement of the Métis as a distinct People and shares the impact of that history as it has affected…
Presented by Mary-Anne Kechego As part of National Indigenous Day 2021, Mary-Anne Kechego talks about the Two-Row Wampum Belt & Dish with One Spoon treaty covering southern Ontario to illustrate what…
Presented by Tina Stevens In Social Injustice in the Court System, Tina Stevens explores how settler colonialism began the long-standing legacy of racism and discrimination toward Indigenous peoples, discusses the…