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Thursday, October 7, 2021
Growing up in a Anishinaabe Wiisaakode (Ojibwe Metis) community in the 1960’s, Social Work Professor Patricia McGuire and her siblings knew exactly who the government-appointed social worker was and what happened when he came to their village. “We would go to a lookout high above the community where we could see and hear everything,”... More
Monday, September 27, 2021
By Dan Rubinstein 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... More
Monday, September 13, 2021
By Karen Kelly Photos by Chris Roussakis The first time that Carleton University’s Racialized and Indigenous Faculty Alliance (RIFA) met on Zoom last February, it was during the thick of the COVID–19 pandemic. Still, there was something special in the air. The genesis for the group began over coffee and scones. Carleton professors Ummni... More
Tuesday, August 31, 2021
Carleton University faculty received approximately $1.5 million from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Development Grants to fund inquiry into topics ranging from pandemic misinformation and reducing corporate greenhouse gas emissions to youth mental health and the Sixties Scoop. A total of 24 Carleton researchers... More
Monday, August 9, 2021
By Dan Rubinstein When Carleton University’s Centre for Indigenous Initiatives released the Kinàmàgawin: Learning Together report in May 2020, it put forward 41 calls to action aimed at making the campus a safer space for Indigenous students, faculty and staff. To continue moving toward that goal, the centre is launching a new Kinàmàgawin... More
Thursday, June 24, 2021
Benny Michaud is a proud Michif (Métis) eagle clan person from St. Boniface, Winnipeg, Manitoba. In the Michif language their traditional name is kaa-natawiyiweet dans la sud oschi, which means Medicine Person from the South, and their gender identity is tasta-eeyinew, which loosely translates into “a person in between.” In English, the terms... More
Tuesday, June 15, 2021
By Dan Rubinstein The following story was written before the discovery of 215 Indigenous children’s remains at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School on Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc land. The colossal, three-storey red brick building is surrounded by farm fields and prairie wetlands, overshadowing everything else on the outskirts of the... More
Sunday, June 13, 2021
Researchers from Carleton University’s Sprott School of Business have received Partnership Engage Grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) to facilitate collaborative research in the areas of Indigenous and social impact. “When actors from the academic and non-academic worlds come together to tackle these... More
Tuesday, June 1, 2021
Carleton University’s Rick Colbourne received approximately $250,000 from the Exploration stream of the New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) to support his interdisciplinary research on Indigenous-led responses to restructuring in cities and urban centres. “Carleton University greatly values its many collaborations with the Indigenous... More
By Lisa Gregoire Much has changed since Laura Hall, Carleton’s newest Indigenous faculty member, graduated from the university in 2002. She’s a mother of twins now, a professor of sociology and, these days, is striving for Indigenous rebirth and renewal in ways that might challenge the activism of her... More
Wednesday, May 5, 2021
Carleton University alumna, former Ravens water polo star, and Canada Sports Hall of Famer Waneek Horn-Miller spoke to the CBC’s Beyond the Win about her experiences during the 1990 Oka... More
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
Carleton University’s Sprott School of Business and Indigenous Works have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to enhance educational, research, and growth opportunities for Indigenous peoples, communities and organizations. Together they will advance two important agendas: expanding workplace inclusion and launching the Luminary... More
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