[Indigsol] IPSMO: Aug 24 events, Fractured Homeland book launch videos and FSIS music video project

[ipsm ottawa]

Hello Everyone,

Hope you all have a great weekend!

In this email:


   - Fractured Homeland book launch videos
   - 7 pm, Aug 24: *First Voices! First Women Speak!* - Ottawa Launch of
   Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s recent book: *Dancing on Our Turtle’s
   Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence and a New Emergence*
   - also Aug 24: Oh My Jam!
   - Families of Sisters in Spirit music video project


* First off*, it was a great event to launch Bonita Lawrence's latest
book *Fractured
Homeland: Federal Recognition and Algonquin Identity in Ontario*. A packed
house at Minwaashin Lodge came to hear Bonita, Bob Majaury, Verna McGregor
and Bob Lovelace speak

Here is video of the four speakers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_4wvk_dRF8
And here is the Q&A: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qaio6nRtCs

About the book:
http://www.ubcpress.ca/search/title_book.asp?BookID=299173681

*Second*, we're really excited to be less than 5 days away from our big
event, First Voices! First Women Speak! A teach-in and community
gathering featuring Lee Maracle, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and other
amazing women.

Full info: http://bit.ly/FirstVoices

Advance registration is already passed. If you already registered, remember
to show up!! However, the evening portion of this gathering is still open
to everyone!

*7 pm, Friday August 24*
*Ottawa Launch of Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s recent book: Dancing on Our
Turtle’s Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence and a New
Emergence with performance by Moe Clark and Leanne Simpson*

*About Dancing on Our Turtle's Back* (copied from
http://leannesimpson.ca/books/):

*Many promote Reconciliation as a “new” way for Canada to relate to
Indigenous Peoples. In Dancing on Our Turtle’s Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg
Re-Creation, Resurgence, and a New Emergence activist, editor, and educator
Leanne Simpson asserts reconciliation must be grounded in political
resurgence and must support the regeneration of Indigenous languages, oral
cultures, and traditions of governance.

Simpson explores philosophies and pathways of regeneration, resurgence, and
a new emergence through the Nishnaabeg language, Creation Stories, walks
with Elders and children, celebrations and protests, and meditations on
these experiences. She stresses the importance of illuminating Indigenous
intellectual traditions to transform their relationship to the Canadian
state.

Challenging and original, Dancing on Our Turtle’s Back provides a valuable
new perspective on the struggles of Indigenous Peoples.*

To hear more about this book, check out Red Man Laughing – EP#19 The Leanne
Simpson Interview: http://bit.ly/IHvqBj

*Copies of the book will be available for purchase.*

*Leanne Betasamosake Simpson* is a writer and scholar of Michi Saagiik
Nishnaabeg ancestry and is a member of Alderville First Nation. She holds a
Ph.D. from the University of Manitoba, is an Adjunct Professor of
Indigenous Studies at Trent University and an instructor at the Centre for
World Indigenous Knowledge, Athabasca University. Leanne has published
three edited volumes including Lighting the Eighth Fire: The Liberation,
Resurgence and Protection of Indigenous Nations (2008, Arbeiter Ring), and
This is An Honour Song: Twenty Years Since the Barricades (with Kiera
Ladner, 2010, Arbeiter Ring). Her recent book, *Dancing on Our Turtle’s
Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence and a New Emergence *was
published in May 2011 and turns to Nishnaabeg theory and philosophy for
guidance in building and maintaining resurgence movements. It is her hope
that this work will inspire the regeneration of Nishnaabeg systems of
governance, language, and knowledge – systems that place women back at the
centre of Kina Gchi Nishnaabeg‐ogaming. (from Leanne Simpson’s web site:
http://leannesimpson.ca/)

*Moe Clark*. With humble beginnings as a Calgary native, Moe received
mentorship from Sheri-D Wilson, who was integral in launching her career as
a spoken word artist at the 2005 Calgary International Spoken Word
Festival. Following the success of her debut, as well as winning the
Calgary CBC Poetry Face-Off (2007), Moe released a debut album “Circle of
She: Story & Song” (April ’08) and toured across Canada. Her award winning
poem “Intersecting Circles” was made into a video poem in 2009 (Bravo!Fact,
CCA, AFA) and became part of the permanent collection at the Peace River
Museum, Archives and Mackenzie Centre. (from Moe Clark’s web site:
http://www.moeclark.ca/.) To listen to her amazing voice:
http://moeclark.ca/listen.html!



*Third*, that same night at 10 pm (Aug 24) is an also-amazing event as part
of Pride week, "Oh My Jam"  featuring Yes Yes Y'all from Toronto, and
Ottawa's Native DJ crew A Tribe Called Red

This event is a joint fundraiser for Families of Sisters in Spirit, and the
Venus Envy Bursary Fund

Check it out: https://www.facebook.com/events/332789220142866/
Poster:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=374582869280419&set=a.374579852614054.86816.253347608070613&type=1&theater
Advance tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/264458

And *lastly*, an announcement for FSIS:

Families of Sisters in
Spirit<https://www.facebook.com/groups/126522944087041/>(FSIS) is
making a music video and your financial support is needed! Check
out the For Our Sisters Music Video Project:
http://igg.me/p/201877?a=1011401

In Canada, young Indigenous women are five times more likely than other
women of the same age to die as a result of violence (Amnesty International
2004 Stolen Sisters Report). FSIS wants to change that statistic. FSIS is
a volunteer, grassroots, non-profit organization led by families of
missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls.

The goals of the "For Our Sisters" music video are:


   1. To raise awareness and inspire action on the issue of missing
   and murdered Aboriginal women in Canada
   2. To promote FSIS and the work it does
   3. To promote FSIS's two big annual events on Parliament Hill, the
   October 4th Vigil and the February 14 Day of Justice


The song "For Our Sisters", by Julie Comber, is a call to action for
everyone to help stop violence against Aboriginal women and girls. Please
go to http://igg.me/p/201877?a=1011401 to learn more about this project,
and please give generously! Your contribution will fund this music video
and help FSIS reach out to more people.

Please share this email and the link far and wide. From our Indiegogo.com
page, you can use the "share" tools to get the word out on FB, Twitter,
email, and more!

For more info, please contact Julie @ fsismusicvideo at gmail.com



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