[Indigsol] indigenous student conference: ADITAWAZI NISODITADIWIN march 13

[Eva Mackey]

Please spread the word about this excellent conference!

ADITAWAZI NISODITADIWIN: EMPOWERMENT THROUGH KNOWLEDGE
Carleton University—Ottawa, Ontario
March 13, 2009
Aditawazi Nisoditadiwin is an Indigenous academic conference that
features keynote speaker Bonita
Lawrence, Aboriginal leaders Grand Council Chief John Beaucage as well
as Senator Patrick
Brazeau and 18 fascinating paper presentations. The conference will
also host a reception and Eighth
Fire fundraiser party. Register for the conference today at www.aditawazi.com.
:our website www.aditawazi.com

NATION-TO-NATION (8:30 a.m. @ SA 409)
• “Understanding Contemporary Practices of Colonialism: Death, healing
and colonial patriarchy in
Canada” by Jordan Leichnitz
• “Louder than Words: Seeking Government Action in a Post-Apology
Canada” by Erin Strachan
• “Aboriginal Appointments to the Supreme Court of Canada: Equality
before and under the law must
mean equal opportunity to make and enforce the law” by Chad Kicknosway
IKWEWAG (8:30 a.m. @ SA 308)
• “Reclaiming Indigenous feminism through reproductive justice” by Jessica Yee
• “Drawing Empowerment from a Midwifery Socioecological Model” by
Cynthia Stirbys and Karen
Lawford
• “An Indigenous Feminist Perspective on Murdered/Missing Aboriginal
Women (Articulated by a non-
Aboriginal feminist)” by Kristen Gilchrist
HEALTH AND WELLNESS (8:30 a.m. @ SA 411)
• “Identity as a Social Indicator of Health and Wellness: First
Nations Women in Rural Communities”
by Jaime Mishibinijima
• “Mentoring and Resiliency Among Aboriginal Youth Participants of the
Cowichan (British Columbia,
Canada) 2008 North American Indigenous Games” by Miranda Kelly, Rachel
Link, Jeff Reading
• “Taking Action: HIV Prevention, Aboriginal Youth Leadership and
Arts-Based Health Promotion” by
Ashley Heaslip
•
WAYS OF KNOWING (10:30 a.m. @ SA 409)
• “Kandossiwin, this is how we come to know: Berry Picking in the
Academy” by Dr. Kathy Absolon
• “Tobacco Ties: The relationship of ‘the sacred’ in research” by
Debby Danard Wilson
• “Putting the theory of a People into practice: teaching traditional
governance” by Thohahoken
Michael Doxtater
IDENTITY MEDIUMS (10:30 a.m. @ SA 308)
• “Graffiti and the Inuit: Contemporary Cultural Expression” by
Melissa Santoro Greyeyes-Brant
• “Orthography and Aboriginal Identity” by Timothy Di Leo Browne
• “An Introduction to Indigenous Media: Cultural Mediation” by Pamela Fillion
CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS (10:30 a.m. @ SA 411)
• “Decoloniality in a historical perspective of peasant-indigenous
contestations in Ecuador” by
Matthew Hawkins
• “Chrystos: Her Words Not Vanishing” by Jorge Antonio Vallejos
• “Second Language Acquisition of Endangered Aboriginal Languages in
Canada” by Justine
Macdonald



Dr. Eva Mackey,
Associate Professor, School of Canadian Studies, Carleton University
 Dunton Tower 1204, 1125 Colonel By Drive,
Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6
tel: (613)-520-2600 x 6697 Fax: (613)-520-3903
eva_Mackey at carleton.ca
mackeva at gmail.com
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