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Monday, May 1, 2023

Carleton Professor Awarded Canada’s Top Post-Secondary Teaching Award

Kahente Horn-Miller, associate professor in Carleton University’s School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies, and inaugural Associate Vice-President, Indigenous Teaching, Learning, and Research, is a recipient of a 2023 3M National Teaching... More

Friday, April 28, 2023

Renata Chiaradia, A Member of the Team Behind the Collaborative Indigenous Learning Bundles

Renata Chiaradia, an instructional design coordinator at Teaching and Learning Services (TLS), has been helping develop and service Carleton’s Collaborative Indigenous Learning Bundles for five years. During that time Chiaradia says she has learned to see the world through a different lens.  The Learning Bundles were created by Dr. Kahente... More

Friday, April 28, 2023

Professor Laura Hall talks land back, Indigenous feminism and horror films

At the center of Prof. Laura Hall’s work at Carleton is a focus on land back, a vast movement calling for the return of Indigenous land and debunking settler narratives.   Hall, an avid horror movie watcher and interdisciplinary scholar, joined Carleton as a faculty member in 2021. Hall’s research interests focus on settler... More

Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Nenìnàwinigewining (March 2023)

Welcome to our Place of Sharing, or Nenìnàwinigewining! Nenìnàwinigewining, means “a place of sharing” in Algonquin. The newsletter’s name signifies the role this platform will play as a space for gathering in celebration, sharing in appreciation, and distributing information about Indigenous teaching and learning on... More

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Basket Weaving: Incorporating Decolonial Skillshare in Pedagogy

By Laura Blanchette For Prof. Andrés C. López (he/they), incorporating basket weaving into pedagogy is a tool for decolonizing the classroom and challenging colonial academic ways of knowing.   Prof. López is an associate professor in the School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies at Carleton. Last term, he guided a cohort of graduate... More

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Message from Kahente Horn-Miller (March 2023)

OK, everyone. Bear with me. I’ve been working without an administrative assistant since December. Things are moving forward but at a slightly slower pace. We’re heading into spring, a new season, and one of the first things we do in our Midwinter ceremonies is to turn down the ashes. We put intent in that... More

Wednesday, March 1, 2023

Duncan McCue joins Carleton’s Journalism Program full-time to create more Indigenous storytelling

Duncan McCue, an award-winning CBC broadcaster and leading advocate for fostering the connection between journalism and Indigenous communities, is joining Carleton University’s School of Journalism and Communication. McCue will formally take up a new tenure track position on July 1, as an associate professor, specializing in Indigenous... More

Friday, February 24, 2023

Carleton Embraces Nideyinàn as New Algonquin Name for University Centre

On Feb. 14, Carleton University held a naming ceremony to celebrate and officially unveil the name Nideyinàn (pronounced nih-DAY-in-nahn), an Algonquin word meaning “our heart” that has been bestowed upon the university for the building formerly called the University Centre. The naming initiative, launched in February 2021 by President... More

Monday, January 30, 2023

Introducing: Nenìnàwinigewining (‘A Place of Sharing’)

The Office of the AVP Indigenous Teaching, Learning and Research (ITLR) is launching a monthly email newsletter this February. Nenìnàwinigewining, which means "a place of sharing" in Algonquin, will provide a platform to explore and celebrate the work of Carleton's Indigenous faculty, staff and students. The newsletter will also include updates... More

Friday, October 14, 2022

Kahente Horn-Miller, AVP Indigenous Teaching, Learning and Research Receives Leadership Award

Associate Vice-President (Indigenous Teaching, Learning and Research) Kahente Horn-Miller has received a significant leadership award for her ongoing work on Indigenous research methodologies, Indigenous governance and consensus-based decision-making. Prof. Horn-Miller is this year’s recipient of the Outstanding Achievement in Intellectual... More

Monday, September 27, 2021

Walking Together at the Ānako Indigenous Research Institute

This past summer, Tasha Beeds and a core group of nine women, men and Two-Spirit people walked carrying a small copper pail of water from the source of the North Saskatchewan River in Alberta’s Rocky Mountains to the river’s junction with the South Saskatchewan east of Prince Albert, Sask., covering 1,100 kilometres over 36... More

Monday, November 16, 2020

Ānako: Giving the Institute an Algonquin Name

This research institute was named by Elder Joan Commanda Tenasco and Anita Tenasco from Kitigàn Zìbì Anishinabeg First Nation and by Elder Irvin Sarazin and Della Meness from the Algonquins of Pikwakanagan First... More

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