Events

Join the Feminist Think Tank as Benny shares their expertise on strategic planning from a decolonial perspective. This will be an invaluable opportunity to reflect on planning processes grounded in transformative justice and decolonization.

Please participate in Bridge: Honouring the Lives of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit People, an annual installation for 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence at the University of Waterloo.

From the Kwantlen First Nation village of Squa’lets comes the tale of Th’owxiya, an old and powerful spirit that inhabits a feast dish of tempting, beautiful foods from around the world. When she catches a hungry mouse named Kw’at’el stealing a piece of cheese from her dish, she threatens to devour Kw’at’el’s whole family, unless he can bring Th’owxiya two child spirits. Ignorant but desperate, Kw’at’el sets out on an epic journey to fulfill the spirit’s demands.

The Indigenous Speakers Series is honoured to present Greg Staats, winner of the 2024 Governor General’s Award for Visual and Media Arts (GGArts) and a 2024-25 Longhouse Labs Fellow here at the University of Waterloo.

Join Rachelle Besaw, Descendant Member of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin and veteran of the United States Navy, for her talk on Indigenous Identity and Academia.

Drawing on various scholars, Dr Zoe Todd critiques the push to 'braid' Indigenous and settler paradigms in conservation. As a Red River Métis scholar, Dr Todd advocates for the radical refusal of systems based on white possession and individualism, urging western institutions to embrace Indigenous practices and global anti-imperialist solidarities.

The Indigenous Speakers Series is honoured to present katherena vermette, a Michif (Red River Métis) award-winning writer from Treaty 1 territory, the heart of the Métis Nation, Winnipeg, Manitoba.