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Wednesday, September 27, 2023

September 30 is Orange Shirt Day

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Monday, August 14, 2023

Nunavut Land-based Learning Opportunity Life-Changing for Southern-Based Inuit Students

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Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Weekly Office Hours: Implementing or Enhancing Indigenous Curricula and Pedagogy

Would you like to receive support for implementing or enhancing Indigenous and/or equity-driven curricula and pedagogy in your courses? The... More

Thursday, July 28, 2022

Limited Edition Every Child Matters Shirts Now Available

Carleton Athletics is proud to announce that a limited edition Every Child Matters (Orange Shirt Day) collection is now on sale with all proceeds benefiting students in the Carleton... 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... More

Monday, September 13, 2021

Racialized and Indigenous Faculty Alliance Finds Strong Support on Carleton Campus

The first time that Carleton University’s Racialized and Indigenous Faculty Alliance (RIFA) met on Zoom last February, it was during the... More

Monday, August 9, 2021

New Program to Foster Allyship and Support for Indigenous Students

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... More

Thursday, June 24, 2021

Celebrating Pride Month: Benny Michaud Leads Centre for Indigenous Initiatives

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... More

Tuesday, June 15, 2021

A Residential School Reclaimed: Transforming Tragedy into Hope

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... More

Tuesday, June 1, 2021

Taking Stock of Renewal During National Indigenous History Month

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,... More

Wednesday, May 5, 2021

Carleton Alumna Waneek Horn-Miller Speaks to CBC About the Power of Sport

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... More

Monday, April 12, 2021

Resonance Project: Art Plus Music at Carleton

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

Carleton University Counsellor Rylee Godin Receives 2021 Indigenous Practice Award

The Centre for Indigenous Initiatives (CII) and Health and Counselling Services at Carleton University are proud to announce... More

Tuesday, March 2, 2021

Inuit Lessons on Surviving Difficult Times at Carleton Kinamagawin Symposium

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.... More

Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Registration open for the Kinàmàgawin Symposium

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... More

Monday, July 20, 2020

Collaborative Indigenous Learning Bundles: Information for Interested Institutions

The Collaborative Indigenous Learning Bundles are online resources that enable instructors to incorporate Indigenous voices in their... More

Tuesday, July 14, 2020

New Centre for Indigenous Initiatives Website Launched

Kwey Kwey, Boozhoo, Sek:on, Dear Carleton Community Members, Our hearts are full as we are now able to share with you the new Centre for Indigenous Initiatives website. The launch of our... More

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Carleton’s David Miller and Study Team Win Award of Excellence

Carleton’s Chemistry Prof. David Miller is a member of the Sioux Lookout Zone Children’s Environmental Health study team which has been awarded the 2020 Health Canada, Health... More

Monday, June 15, 2020

Carleton Linguist Reflects on Unique Eastern Cree Language Website on its 20th Birthday

Marie-Odile Junker, a professor at Carleton University’s School of Linguistics and Language Studies, had a dream years ago where, sad... More

Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Carleton University Introduces Kinàmàgawin Indigenous Reconciliation Strategy

Carleton University has released Kinàmàgawin, a revitalized long-term Indigenous strategy with 41 Calls to Action to make Carleton a more welcoming space for current and future... More

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Honouring Treaties is the Beginning of True Decolonization

When Coastal GasLink says it got approval from 20 British Columbia First Nations to build a natural gas pipeline through Wet’suwet’en territory, they’re... More

Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Kinàmàgawin Symposium Focuses on Indigenous Identity and Sovereignty

Carleton University’s first annual Kinàmàgawin Symposium focused on important issues rooted in Indigenous identity and sovereignty, many of which remain pressing concerns... More

Friday, January 24, 2020

Carleton Helps Get the Word Out in Indigenous Communities

While reviewing hospital records from the Sioux Lookout Health Centre in northern Ontario, Tom Kovesi noticed a high number of children had symptoms of respiratory conditions that can be... More

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Deer Stew and the Drum: Carleton Revives Annual Round Dance

It’s not every night you get to eat deer stew at Carleton University and hear folks competing for the best moose call but that was the scene at Fenn Lounge on the evening of Nov. 29,... More

Monday, December 2, 2019

Telling Important Stories: The New TVO Indigenous Hub at Carleton University

As a child, TVO reporter Shelby Lisk heard very little of her family’s native language. She was raised in Belleville, Ont. —not very far from Kenhtè:ke (Tyendinaga Mohawk... More

Tuesday, October 1, 2019

Finding Common Ground: Carleton Alum Waneek Horn-Miller on Reconciliation

Reconciliation between Indigenous and settler Canadians won’t be a restoration of friendly relations; rather, think of it as making one set of beliefs compatible with... More

Friday, September 27, 2019

Carleton Event Examines the Term “Genocide” in Indigenous Report

Reclaiming Power and Place, the final report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, concludes that acts of violence against Indigenous... More

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