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Presenter:  Mary-Anne Kechego ‘All My Relations’ is a reminder of who we are with both our family and relatives, and the extended relationship we share with all human beings. Indigenous…

Presenter: Tina Stevens In this session, Social Injustice in the Court System, Tina Stevens will explore how settler colonialism began the long-standing legacy of racism and discrimination toward Indigenous peoples,…

Presenter: Tracey Whiteye In this session, The Impact of Residential Schools, Tracey Whiteye shares her story as an Indigenous woman and second-generation residential school Survivor who fought to regain her…

Presenter: Mary-Anne Kechego In this session, We Are All Treaty People, Mary-Anne Kechego will talk about the Two-Row Wampum Belt and Dish with One Spoon to illustrate what treaties mean…

Presenter: Tina Stevens The Doctrine of Discovery was a Papal decree in 1493 used as a legal and moral way to justify the colonial dispossession of Indigenous Nations of their…

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…