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Monday, September 27, 2021
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... More
Monday, September 13, 2021
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... More
Monday, August 9, 2021
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... 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... More
Tuesday, June 15, 2021
The colossal, three-storey red brick building is surrounded by farm fields and prairie wetlands, overshadowing everything else on the outskirts of the Muskowekwan First Nation, a Saulteaux community in southeastern... More
Tuesday, June 1, 2021
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
Monday, April 12, 2021
What can the process of musicians collaborating in response to an art exhibition teach us about the potential for music to amplify social themes? What constitutes ethical community-engagement in... More
Monday, March 8, 2021
The Centre for Indigenous Initiatives (CII) and Health and Counselling Services at Carleton University are proud to announce that Rylee Godin has received the 2021 Indigenous Practice Award from the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association. This award honours excellence in advancing culturally-congruent counselling and... More
Tuesday, March 2, 2021
If it’s true what Ernest Hemingway said, that the world breaks us and makes us strong in the broken places, then Inuit in Canada are primed to lead us into an uncertain future. That is if those in power, who have controlled or silenced Inuit voices for decades, stop talking and... More
Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Kwey Kwey, Boozhoo, Sek:on, Taanshi and Ulaakut, Dear Carleton Community Members, You are invited to the second annual Kinàmàgawin Symposium, which will be streamed online on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021. The day-long symposium includes keynote speakers, panel discussions and Inuit cultural performances—all focused on this year’s theme: The... More
Monday, July 20, 2020
The Collaborative Indigenous Learning Bundles are online resources that enable instructors to incorporate Indigenous voices in their classroom to help students better understand Indigenous perspectives, history and politics in Canada. The Bundles are one aspect of Carleton’s response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s... More
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