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GWI “Water Conversations” Series: Water, Indigenous Women’s Health, and Environmental Violence
December 13, 2017 at 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
| Location: | 3235 Mackenzie |
| Cost: | Free |
| Audience: | Anyone |
| Key Contact: | Christiane Mineau |
| Contact Email: | christianemineau@cunet.carleton.ca |
| Contact Phone: | (613)520-2600 x2516 |
Speaker: Karen Lawford of the Carleton University School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies.
Indigenous ecological ways of knowing position water as more than a commodity or a resource related to extractive industries. Water is intertwined with Indigenous peoples’ identity, reproductive health, and relationships with the land. The first environment for all humanity is woman and water is essential for the growth and development of the baby during pregnancy. This relationship explains why water and women are so very important to Indigenous peoples.
For the next edition of the Global Water Institute’s “Water Conversations”, Karen will map out the linkages between water, Indigenous women’s health, and environmental violence using the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) as a framework for her presentation.
Karen Lawford is an instructor in the School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies at Carleton University. She is also a registered midwife, and an aboriginal midwife (Namegosibiing, Lac Seul First Nation.)