The first in the SSW speaker series features Elder Myeengun Henry, who will speak about Environmental Justice.
When: Thursday,
February
16,
2023,
12:30-2:00pm
Where: Online
About the event:
Elder
Henry
is
an
Indigenous
Knowledge
Keeper
at the
Faculty
of
Health
Sciences,
University
of
Waterloo.
He
has held
the
position
of
Elected
Chief
and
the
Director of
Employment
Services
for
the
Chippewas
of
the Thames
First
Nation.
Elder
Henry
is
an
elected
band councilor,
Indigenous
Ceremony
conductor
(e.g., weddings,
funerals,
healing,
naming),
traditional
medicine
practitioner,
environmental
protectionist, Indigenous
counsellor,
Pow
Wow
coordinator,
and OPP
Indigenous
advisor.
Elder Henry will speak about the need to protect the environment/nature/land as part of our being, intricately connected to us, not to be dominated. He has worked with students in New Orleans’ bayous, whose people and environment are affected by ‘environmental racism’. He is involved in communities in ways that highlight the need to integrate the environment.