[IPSM] ASN and OFNIE present Rick Monture TUESDAY

[Robin Taylor]

The Aboriginal Students' Network and the Office for First Nations and Inuit
Education present a talk by Rick Monture (McMaster University):

Tueday, April 5, 1pm in Education 233, 3700 McTavish
- accessible by chair from the north entrance.

'What have you left to us of land’: Resistance, Performance, and Protest at
Grand River, 1784 – 2004

For over two hundred years, members of the Six Nations of the Grand River have
demonstrated an unwillingness to cooperate with the colonial agenda of Canada. 
While resistance and protest have taken many forms over the decades, several
notable individuals have displayed a remarkable consistency of purpose in their
struggle to assert sovereignty and Native rights, and to call attention to
social and environmental injustice that takes place at the local and
international level.  In looking at the work of Joseph Brant (Mohawk chief),
Pauline Johnson (poet), Robbie Robertson (songwriter), and Shelley Niro
(artist), this presentation will examine how this diverse group of Iroquois
individuals has incorporated cultural and historical traditions to forge
statements of protest that resonate beyond the borders of their community. 
More importantly, these performative acts of protest are evidence that First
Nation intellectual traditions provide creative ways to think about the
problems that continue to exist in this country - and to envision their
possible resolutions.