Welcome
How is the University of Waterloo, including the Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre, addressing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s 94 Calls to Action?
This website is a hub for projects and initiatives by members of the University and partners that respond to the Calls to Action for reconciliation amongst Indigenous peoples and all Canadians.
Truth and Reconciliation Commission | TRC Calls to Action (PDF)
News
- Sep. 20, 2018Special Issue: Indigenous Peoples and the Politics of Water
The current issue of Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society is out now! It is a special issue edited by Cutcha Risling Baldy and Malanie K. Yazzie focusing on Indigenous Peoples and the politics of water.
Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society solicits any work purposefully engaged in the decolonization process, regardless of discipline or field, encouraging work that actively seeks undisciplinary connections that work both against and beyond the Western academy.
- July 17, 2018The Blanket Exercise
The Blanket Exercise
WHEN: July 20, 12:30 to 2:30PM
WHERE: Needles Hall, room 3047
The Blanket Exercise includes points of reference about the historical and contemporary relationship between Indigenous populations and the imposed colonial systems in Canada. This activity takes us through a historical timeline of events that have social, political, economic and racial identity implications on Indigenous populations.
- Apr. 3, 2018TEACH-IN AUNTY/INDIGENOUS LOVE: CANADIAN LAWLESSNESS, INDIGENOUS LAW, AND PRACTICE
TEACH-IN AUNTY/INDIGENOUS LOVE: CANADIAN LAWLESSNESS, INDIGENOUS LAW, AND PRACTICE
TEACH-IN Aunty/Indigenous Love: Canadian Lawlessness, Indigenous Law, and Practice
170 St. George Street, JHB room 100
Time: Apr 7th, 7:00 pm End: Apr 7th, 9:00 pm
Interest Categories: Women/Gender, Women & Gender Studies (FAS), Political Science, Law, Faculty of , Indigenous, Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in (OISE/UT), Canada, 2000-
Teach-in
Events
- Oct. 24, 2018Drew Hayden Taylor’s Search for Winnetou
WHERE: 67 Erb Street W., Waterloo (Balsillie Multipurpose Room)
The Waterloo Centre for German Studies is hosting an event titled: "Drew Hayden Taylor's Search for Winnetou." This will be a screening of the CBC documentary "Searching for Winnetou" followed by a discussion with the filmmaker, Drew Hayden Taylor.
The Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre acknowledges that we are on the traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishnawbe and Haudenosaunee peoples. The University of Waterloo is situated on the Haldimand Tract, the land promised to the Six Nations that includes six miles on each side of the Grand River.