[Indigsol] Indigenous Women's Symposium March 6-8 Trent University Peterborough Ontario

[Ben Powless]

2009 INDIGENOUS WOMEN'S SYMPOSIUM

"Wii-Mnaadenmong ezhi-ndwendaangoziiyang wii-ginaawenmongidwaa
binoojiinyag miinwaa gda-kiimnaa":
Honouring Our Responsibilities to the Children and the Land

March 6-8, 2009
First Peoples House of Learning
Trent University
Peterborough, Ontario

Keynotes by Patricia Monture, Lee Maracle, and Maria Campbell

The 2009 Indigenous Women's Symposium will focus on strategies to
prepare children and youth for a balanced existence in a world that is
in crisis as a result of colonialism. The system of oppression and
degradation that began with Columbus' voyages has impacted most of the
Earth's ecosystems as well as the subsequent populations that depend
upon those ecosystems for physical, cultural, and spiritual survival.

Children born into the world today must grow up with the heavy burden
of creating individual and collective identities within their homelands
against a constant onslaught of ecological issues created by
corporations, and governments that remain committed to faulty economic
and political schemes. These schemes not only promote the rights of
multinational corporations over the rights of Indigenous peoples, they
also enrich western nations at the expense of billions of people who
continue to live in mass poverty while also existing in the midst of
environmental contamination and devastation.

Women and children remain the most affected by political and economic
policies within countries that deny human rights while promoting the
economic rights of development and resource extraction industries. As a
result of patriarchy that frequently accompanies colonialism, women are
often denied the right to participate in local decision-making around
land use or in national resource management policies. Limited access to
land and participation in resource management policies have direct
social, political, economic and spiritual impacts on Indigenous women
and directly affects their ability to create sustainable futures for
their children and grandchildren.

We hope that you will join us for this exciting weekend as we honour
our relationships to our children and the land. Please browse the
website where you will find information on registration, childcare,
Keynote Speakers and Presenters, Dinner, Youth Programming, and
Accommodation information.


Schedule of Events:

Friday March 6 (Douro Community Centre)

4:00pm-5:30pm
Registration and Venders

5:30pm-6:30pm
Keynote Dinner
-Douro Community Centre (see note above for transportation)

6:45pm-7:15pm
Welcome: Indigenous Studies Chair: David Newhouse
Opening: Edna Manitowabi
Opening Songs: Unity Singers

7:30pm-10:00pm
Keynote Address
Patricia Monture
Lee Maracle

Note:  Transportation will be provided by bus. The bus will depart from
downtown (Simcoe Street by Baskin Robins) at 4:30pm and return from the
Douro Centre at 10:00pm. A Peterborough map is also located on the
symposium website with driving directions to the Douro Hall.



Saturday March 7 (Trent University)

7:00am-8:30am
Sunrise Ceremony: Trent University Traditional Area

8:30am-9:30am
Breakfast (on own: Otonabee College Cafeteria)

Key Note Address

9:30am-10:30am
Rm: 117 Maria Campbell

10:45am-11:45am
Rm: 110 Lisa Close. ³Image(I)Nations: ³Self² produced
representations in Cherie Dimaline¹s Red Rooms²
Rm: 111 Charmaine Elijah. ³Reclaiming our Roots, Releasing our
Hurts²
Rm:  112 D. Marie Marchand. ³Identity and the Child and Family
Services Act in Ontario²
Rm:  115 Danielle Aubrey. ³Power of Communication: Difficult
Conversations²
Rm:  106 Rauna Kuokkanen. ³Indigenous Women and Autonomy²
Rm:  108 Celene Mackenzie Vukson. ³Tlicho Oral History: The Story of
the Lost Hunter²

10:30am-12:00pm
Location:  Gathering Space Youth Workshop: ³Graphic Novels and
Animation (age 9-12)²
Chad Solomon

11:45pm-1:30pm
Lunch (on own: Otonabee College Cafeteria)

Session II: Honouring our Relationships II

1:45pm-3:45pm
Rm:  110 Christine Smillie-Adjarkwa. ³How Colonialism Has Affected
HIV/AIDS Rates within The
Aboriginal Youth Populations in Ontario and Quebec²
Rm:  111 Dakota Brant. ³³Apophis: It¹s an Attitude Change we all
Need to Make².
Rm:  112 Eliza Tru and Glenna Beaucage. ³How the efforts of the
Indian Homemakers' Club Members of
Nipissing First Nation Can Remind Youth of the True Meaning of
Community²
Rm:  115 Josephine Atieno Ochieng. ³PATENTED DRUGS, PARENTAL
DEATHS²
Rm:  106 Patty Lawlor and Karen Lewis. ³First Nation Public
Libraries: Honouring Our Past, Enabling Our Present, Shaping Our
Future²
Rm:  108 Paula Putman, Tracy Sauve and Blanche Meawassige.
³Supporting Our Children and Youth In
Maintaining Their Cultural Flame²

1:45pm-3:15pm
Location: Gathering Space Youth Workshop: ³Graphic Novels and
Animation (age 13-17)²
Chad Solomon

4:00pm-5:30pm
Location: Gathering Space Book Launch Featuring the Scholarship of
Indigenous Women:
Leanne Simpson
Heather Howard

5:30pm-7:00pm
Supper (on own: Otonabee College Cafeteria)

7:30pm-9:30pm
Room 117: Performance by Indigenous Youth


Sunday March 8

8:30am-9:30am
Breakfast (on own: Otonabee College Cafeteria)

Session III: Honouring our Relationships

9:30am-10:30am

Rm: 110 Jaime Mishibinijima. ³Identity as a Social Indicator of
Health and Wellness: First Nations Women in Rural Communities²
Rm: 111 Kate Rexe. ³Canada¹s New Federal Framework for Aboriginal
Economic Development:
Patriarchy for the 21st century²
Rm: 112 Lynda Banning. ³Nonasowin: Breastfeeding is Good Medicine²
Rm: 115 Lynn Gehl. ³Wampum Belt Exchange at Niagara²
Rm: 106 Julia Lane. ³Indigenous Environmental Education²
Rm: 108 Kerry Beebee. ³The (Re)Emergence of Aboriginal Midwifery and
Traditional Childbirth
Practices across Canada²

10:45am-11:45am
Rm: 110 Marlene Gallagher. ³The Role of Traditional Community
Knowledge in developing Aboriginal
Identity²
Rm: 111 Melanie Ferris.² Using Traditional Teachings to Increase
Capacity and Cultural Strength in Canada¹s Indigenous Communities²
Rm: 112 Nadia Prendergast, Laurece and Leanne Prendergast. ³Sankofa:
Black Feminist Thought²
Rm: 115 Shey-Lea O¹Brien. ³Aboriginal Education in Urban Secondary
Schools: Teaching Identity, Empowerment, and Survival of Culture²
Rm: 106 Shirley Williams. ³zhooshkwaadedaa! Let's skate! : Young
Aboriginal Women in hockey!²

10:30am-12:00pm
Location: Traditional Area Youth Workshop: Winter Survival Skills
Nicole Bell
Traditional Area

11:45pm-1:30pm
Lunch (on own: Otonabee College Cafeteria)

Session II: Honouring our Relationships IV

1:45pm-3:45pm
Rm: 110 Panel: Erica Neegan, Noki Wane, Liwliwa Rose, Ann Torres.
³Honouring our children: Gifts from the Creator²
Rm: 111 Cindy Martin. ³Haudenosaunee Health Model: Reconnection
Journey through the Tree Rings²
Rm: 112 Jules Koostachin. ³Indians Documenting Indians: Indigenous
Media²
Rm:115 Karen Chaboyer. ³SEVEN FIRE/RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL²
Rm: 106 Stephanie Peltier and Nancy Stevens. ³Medicine and
Berry-Picking: Traditional Women¹s Roles and Present Day Visions²

1:45pm-3:00pm
Location: Traditional Area Youth Workshop: Winter Survival Skills
Nicole Bell
Traditional Area

4:00pm-4:30pm
Rm 117: Closing
Shirley Williams

Please visit our website for more information:
http://www.trentu.ca/academic/nativestudies/womenssymposium.htm
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