Events

Join the Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre, Department of History, and Department of Fine Arts for a hoop dance performance and workshop with Feryn King.

Feryn King is a hoop dancer from Akwesasne First Nation who recently toured throughout Europe with Cirque de Soleil. We are grateful that she will share her talents and this thrilling form of Indigenous dance with our Waterloo community, in this social-distanced space.

Join others around the province, to hear from Dr. Dr. Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux in this Virtual Living Library event, which is part of Ontario's programming for Treaties Recognition Week. Dr. Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux will facilitate an interactive conversation around treaties, their connection to the Truth and Reconciliation’s Calls to Action and the types of practical, actionable steps we can all take to help advance reconciliation.

Bridge: Honouring the Lives of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit People has become an annual installation since 2016 for 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence at the University of Waterloo.

The Faculty of Environment invites you to attend the second session of a Special Speakers Series on Decolonizing Methodologies for Sustainability Research.

The second session is titled "Indigenous Research & Indigenous Environmental Justice" and will feature Prof. Deborah McGregor from York University.

We are excited to share a free, virtual community screening of the acclaimed film, Trick or Treaty?, directed by Alanis Obomsawin followed by a discussion with Robin Stadelbauer, Indigenous Relations Coordinator and Professor Susan Roy

Join others around the province, to hear from Elder Dr. Duke Redbird in this Virtual Living Library event, which is part of Ontario's programming for Treaties Recognition Week. It provides an opportunity for you to listen and learn from Indigenous Elders and knowledge keepers as they share their experience and perspectives around Treaties.

Native spiritual practices have always been about land. Today, First Nations groups in Canada and the US are engaged in significant political, cultural, and spiritual work to reclaim ancestral lands and their traditional roles as land guardians.  At a time of profound climate disruption and converging crises, First Nations leaders are asserting and renewing their sacred relationships with other-than-human kin like totem animals and elements like water and fire. The revitalization of land guardianship roles and practices is often characterized as protecting the medicines of the land so that they can continue to give life to all of creation. This movement is a claim to territorial and spiritual sovereignty.

The Indigenous Speakers Series hosted by the Faculty of Arts is pleased and honoured to present Jean Teillet, lawyer, author, teacher and artist, as the first of our 2021-22 speakers.

The Faculty of Arts is pleased welcome Professor Stephanie Fryberg to the Psychology Department Colloquium this Friday. Stephanie is a member of the Tulalip tribe whose research and teaching includes the impact of Native American mascots on Native American children’s self-identity, testifying before the U.S. Senate on Stolen Identities: The impact of racist stereotypes on Indigenous people and working with students in the Naskapi community of Kawawachikamach in Quebec. She will be presenting her research on Omission as the Modern Form of Bias Against Indigenous Peoples.

The Office of Indigenous Relations is pleased to have Ela Smith present Part 1 of this two-part workshop where campus community members will gain a deeper understanding of historic and current realities for First Nations, Métis and Inuit (FNMI) people in Ontario and Canada.