[Indigsol] Public talk: Feb 6 - Kim Anderson-"Native Women and Narratives of the Land"

[mattm-b at resist.ca]

*This friday! Please distribute widely
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*Think, Talk, Tell:*

Indigenous Speaker Series 2008-9

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*Sponsored by the School of Canadian Studies and the Dean of FASS, Carleton
University*

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Feb 6, 2009:

1:30 pm 102 Azrieli Theatre

*"Native Women and Narratives of the Land: The Body as Contact Zone"*

*Kim Anderson:**
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Kim Anderson (Cree/Metis)* *is author of *A Recognition of Being:
Reconstructing Native Womanhood* and co-editor, with Bonita Lawrence,
of *Strong
Women Stories: Native Vision and Community Survival.* She is currently
completing her PhD in History at the University of Guelph **


*Abstract:*

This lecture focuses on the significance of Native women's bodies in
narratives of Indigenous and Euro-western contact and arrival. It explores
how sexual violence and conquest are at the core of explorer/settler
narratives of contact; narratives which continuously reply themselves in
Indigenous and non-Indigenous relations today. In contrast to narratives of
conquest (contact) and consumption (arrival), there are opportunities
presented in Indigenous creation stories which emphasize female agency,
creation and stewardship. After examining how Native women's bodies are the
"contact zone" for these varying narratives, the author explores how
re-introducing Indigenous narratives of contact and arrival are critical to
Indigenous processes of healing and recovery, for women, for the land, and
for "all our relations."**

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March 13th, 2009:

  1:00 pm 102 Azrieli Theatre

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*"Fractured Homeland: Federal Recognition, Land and Algonquin Identity in
Ontario"***

*Bonita Lawrence**:*

Bonita Lawrence (Mi'kmaw) teaches Indigenous Studies at York University in
Toronto. She is the author of "*Real" Indians and Others:* *Mixed-Blood
Urban Native People and Indigenous Nationhood. *UBC Press, 2004 as well as
co-editor (with Kim Anderson) of* Strong Women Stories: Native Vision and
Community Survival* (Sumach Press 2003), and an edition of *Atlantis: A
Women's Studies Journal*, entitled *Indigenous Women: The State of Our
Nations*. She is a traditional singer, who has sung at rallies, social
events, benefits and prisons in Kingston and Toronto. She also currently
volunteers with a diversion program for Aboriginal offenders at Aboriginal
Legal Services of Toronto.

 (Dr. Lawrence is invited in conjunction with the Aditawazi Nisoditadiwin
grad students' conference)



*Abstract*: The contemporary land claims process is both integral to
long-standing colonial nation-building processes and contemporary
globalization. For Algonquin peoples, whose unceded traditional land base
includes Parliament Hill, profound divisions have been created both by the
imposition of a provincial boundary through the heart of their territory and
through the Indian Act. In Ontario, approximately 3/4ths of Algonquins are
not recognized under the Indian Act and have been struggling to re-create a
sense of Algonquin identity in the face of a land claim that has profoundly
divided status Algonquins from non-status Algonquins and fractured the
non-status communities. At stake is their Aboriginal title to the land
itself, in a context where recent court rulings assert that Aboriginal
peoples must be consulted for activities on their land but cannot legally
refuse the interests of mining or forestry companies. As some Algonquin
leaders are co-opted, and others are criminalized, grassroots community
people across the territory are engaging in a resurgence of Indigenous
identity and cultural relationship to land, in defiance of Indian Act racial
categories.





For more information contact Eva Mackey eva_mackey at carleton.ca or Donna
Patrick donna_patrick at carleton.ca

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"All oppression is relative.
All oppression is specific."

- Albert Memmi
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