BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260916T020041EDT-69219uvGDa@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260916T060041Z DESCRIPTION:Indigenous Awareness Weeks offer students\, staff\, and faculty the opportunity to learn about Indigenous cultures\, histories\, and comm unities\, promoting greater knowledge and understanding about Indigenous p eoples in Canada. They aim to raise awareness and initiate an exchange of ideas on First Nations\, Métis\, and Inuit topics within the McGill commun ity.\n\nIndigenous Awareness Weeks provide a space to amplify Indigenous v oices and perspectives on campus. Since 2011\, invited guests have include d academics\, community members\, Elders\, and students. Topics have inclu ded health\, identity\, language revitalization\, the Indian Act\, Residen tial Schools\, Indigenous legal traditions\, Canadian policies\, education \, child welfare\, and Indigenous ways of knowing.\n\nThis year's series m arks the eleventh annual Indigenous Awareness Weeks series at McGill. It w ill take place from Monday\, September 19th to Friday\, September 30th. Al l are welcome to attend the events\, which are free.\n\nEvent Calendar\n\n Week One\n\nMonday\, September 19th\, 2022\n\nOpening Ceremony & Keynote A ddress (5:45-8:00 pm)\, McGill University\, Strathcona Anatomy and Dentist ry Building\, Room M/1\n\nJoin us in celebrating the launch of this year's Indigenous Awareness Weeks! The event will begin with opening words from Kanien'kehá:ka Faith Keeper Otsi'tsakén:ra (Charlie) Patton\, followed by a keynote address by Celeste Pedri-Spade\, McGill’s first Associate Provos t (Indigenous Initiatives). Following this\, attendees will be treated to performances by Inuit throat singers Nina and Sierra Segalowitz\, and Kani en'kehá:ka social song singers Iakotennikonhrare Doreen\, Tiohatehkwen Pat ton\, and Karonhiakwas Patton. Food from the Roundhouse Café/Café de la Ma ison Ronde and drinks will be provided.\n\nTuesday\, September 20th\, 2022 \n\nFilm screening of Three Thousand and Q&A with the director\, asinnajaq (6:00-7:30 p.m.)\, McGill University\, Macdonald-Harrington Building\, G- 10 Auditorium\n\nasinnajaq is a visual artist\, filmmaker\, and writer bas ed in Montreal\, QC. For her short film Three Thousand (2017)\, she uses t housands of hours of historical footage from the National Film Board of Ca nada's archive to reframe the past of Inuit and create a vision for the fu ture. For more information on the film\, visit the NFB website.\n\nWednesd ay\, September 21st\, 2022\n\nVirtual presentation and Q&A with Cassidy Ca ron (President\, Métis National Council) (11:00 am - 12:00 pm)\, Zoom\n\nC assidy Caron is a Métis woman with roots in the historic Métis communities of Batoche and St. Louis\, Saskatchewan. She grew up closely connected to her Métis traditions\, heritage and culture and is driven by her family a nd community values of respect\, honesty\, collaboration and responsibilit y. Cassidy is the first elected woman to hold the office of President of t he Métis National Council.\n\nJoin President Caron for a live Zoom present ation on the past\, present\, and future of the Métis Nation.\n\nThursday\ , September 22nd\, 2022\n\nMcGill Farmer's Market x Indigenous Awareness W eeks Collaboration (11:00 am - 5 pm)\, McGill University\, 3460 McTavish S t\, Montreal\n\nTo celebrate Indigenous Awareness Weeks at McGill\, Indige nous Initiatives is collaborating with the McGill Farmer's Market to bring more Indigenous artists and vendors to the Market. Stay tuned for a compl ete list of the Indigenous vendors you can check out and support.\n\nRound table discussion on Inuit self-governance with panelists Pita Aatami (Pres ident\, Makivik Corporation)\, Lisa Koperqualuk (President\, Inuit Circump olar Council Canada)\, and Natan Obed (President\, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami ) (6:00-7:30 pm)\, McGill University\, Moyse Hall Theatre\n\nThis roundtab le discussion will explore Inuit self-governance at various levels: region al\, national\, and international. It will be moderated by Patricia Johnso n-Castle\, the former Director of Policy and Planning at the Nunatsiavut G overnment and the former Coordinator of the Indigenous Studies Program at McGill University. \n\nWatch the recording here.\n\nFriday\, September 23r d\, 2022\n\n21st Annual McGill Pow Wow (11:00 am - 4:00 pm)\, McGill Unive rsity\, Lower West Field (845 Sherbrooke St. W.)\n\nDancers bring your reg alia and drummers\, bring your hand drums. First Nations\, Inuit\, and Mét is artisans\, vendors\, and organizations are welcome. This is a free\, pu blic event.\n\nFor more information\, please contact firstpeopleshouse [at ] mcgill.ca. \n\nFor the full pow wow schedule\, please visit the First Pe oples' House events page.\n\nWeek Two\n\nMonday\, September 26th\, 2022\n \nNiriqatigiit (Coming Together to Eat) with Inuk chef Trudy Metcalfe-Coe (5:00-7:00 pm)\, First Peoples' House\n\nOriginally from Nain\, Nunatsiavu t\, the Inuit Land Claims region in Northern Labrador\, Inuk Chef Trudy Me tcalfe-Coe has called Ottawa home for thirty plus years. Trudy started coo king around the age of twelve and takes pleasure in bringing comfort to fa mily\, friends and community\, through her love of creating tasty dishes f rom Country Food (food from the Arctic such as caribou\, seal\, arctic cha r and musk ox). \n\nJoin Chef Trudy as she prepares a meal for the Indigen ous community at McGill's First Peoples' House.\n\nTuesday\, September 27t h\, 2022\n\nLive broadcast of 'Wampum in Montreal History' with Darren Bon aparte (12:30 - 1:00 pm)\, McGill University YouTube\n\nTune into this liv e YouTube broadcast of 'Wampum in Montreal History' with Darren Bonaparte. Bonaparte is the Mohawk writer\, artist\, and cultural historian behind T he Wampum Chronicles website. In this video\, Bonaparte discusses wampum\, or the belts through which the Haudenosaunee documented their history and culture\, in the Montreal context.\n\nView the presentation here: https:/ /www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yh6Wp_x1Cs\n\nWednesday\, September 28th\, 2022 \n\nInuit games demonstration by ᐋᓪᓚ ᐋᓪᓚ (12:00-1:30 p.m.)\, University Ce ntre - Shatner Building\, Madeleine Parent Room (202)\n\nBorn in St. John' s\, NL\, and raised in Ottawa\, ON\, ᐋᓪᓚ ᐋᓪᓚ (which translates to Stranger in English) has spent more than a decade demonstrating and teaching tradi tional Inuit games. At this event\, ᐋᓪᓚ ᐋᓪᓚ will talk about the history of the games and demonstrate some of his favourites.\n\nJoin ᐋᓪᓚ ᐋᓪᓚ on the 2nd Floor of the University Centre (3480 McTavish Street) for this excitin g demonstration.\n\n'The Legacy Game: Honouring the Indigenous Roots of La crosse' (Part One): A Presentation on the Meaning and History of Lacrosse by Mike Kanentakeron Mitchell (4:00-5:30 pm)\, RVC West Lounge 014\n\nKane ntakeron is a knowledge keeper from Akwesasne who has played lacrosse all his life. For almost twenty years\, he served as President of the Iroquois Lacrosse Association. He also served as the First Nations Director to the Canadian Lacrosse Association from 1998-2011. In 2014\, Kanentakeron was awarded the Lester B. Pearson Award by the Canadian Lacrosse Association f or his dedication\, sportsmanship\, and leadership in the lacrosse world. Read more here. \n\nKanentakeron is also the former Akwasasne Grand Chief\ , and 'was a member of the historic Indian Film Crew\, an all-Indigenous g roup of film trainees formed at the [National Film Board] in 1967.' Kanent akeron directed the IFC film You Are on Indian Land (1969)\, which was for mally credited to him in 2017. Read more here.\n\nThursday\, September 29t h\, 2022\n\nMcGill Farmer's Market x Indigenous Awareness Weeks Collaborat ion (11:00 am - 5 pm)\, McGill University\, 3460 McTavish St\n\nTo celebra te Indigenous Awareness Weeks at McGill\, Indigenous Initiatives is collab orating with the McGill Farmer's Market to bring more Indigenous artists a nd vendors to the Market. Stay tuned for a complete list of the Indigenous vendors you can check out and support.\n\n'ᐃᓄᐊ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᖃᐅᒪᔪᖅ (INUA and Qauma juq): Going Forward Together' with Krista Ulujuk Zawadski (6:00-8:00 pm)\,  Macdonald-Harrington Building\, G-10 Auditorium\n\nKrista Ulujuk Zawadski is a curator\, anthropologist\, arts leader\, researcher\, scholar and wr iter\, who is originally from Igluligaarjuk (Chesterfield Inlet) and now c alls Rankin Inlet\, NU\, home. Zawadski will present a talk on her involve ment in INUA and Qaumajuq. INUA is the inaugural exhibition of Qaumajuq\, the new Inuit art centre at the Winnipeg Art Gallery\, that brings togethe r the work of over 90 Inuit artists from across Inuit Nunangat and souther n centres.\n\nFriday\, September 30th\, 2022\n\n4th Annual 'We Will Walk T ogether/Skàtne Entewathahìta' Event (10:00 am - 12:00 pm)\, Education Buil ding (3700 McTavish St) Patio (outside) and Learning Commons area (inside) \n\nThis year's 'We Will Walk Together/Skàtne Entewathahìta' event will in volve an outdoor ceremony honouring the children\, survivors\, and familie s impacted by residential and day schools. It will include guest speeches and drumming performances. Following the ceremony\, there will be an inter active information fair that highlights Indigenous initiatives within the Faculty of Education and beyond. The event's theme is 'Education is the ke y to reconciliation.'\n\n'The Legacy Game: Honouring the Indigenous Roots of Lacrosse' (Part Two): Varsity Men's Lacrosse Game and Ceremony (7:45 - 10:00 pm)\, Percival Molson Memorial Stadium (475 Pine Ave W)\n\nFriday\, September 30th's varsity men's lacrosse game against Queens University wil l be dedicated to both Orange Shirt Day and Indigenous contributions to an d stewardship of the game of lacrosse. In addition to the varsity game\, t he event will feature an opening ceremony\, fundraising\, half-time perfor mances\, and a closing ceremony involving the awarding of legacy sticks to the teams. Importantly\, this is the first edition of what will become an annual Legacy Game at McGill.\n\nThe game will be free to attend for Indi genous peoples (please contact Aneeka Anderson at aneeka.anderson [at] mcg ill.ca to receive your promo code). Orange shirts designed by White Buffal o Crafts By Isabelle (Isabelle Zwicker) will be sold at the game as a fund raiser for the Native Friendship Centre of Montreal\, and donations are be ing accepted on the ticket platform below.\n\nGet your tickets here: https ://mcgillathletics.tuxedobillet.com/main/redbirds-lacrosse-vs-queens\n DTSTART:20220919T214500Z DTEND:20221001T020000Z SUMMARY:Indigenous Awareness Weeks 2022 URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/indigenous/channels/event/indigenous-awareness-we eks-2022-345183 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR