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News archive - November 2019

Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Songs in the Key of Cree connects achimoowin, ayamoowin, and paapoowin

Tomson Highway and Patricia Cano performing

Indigenous languages are critically endangered throughout the world. This is more than a loss of words: Indigenous languages embody sets of relationships and ways of being in the world that are powerful, transformative, and sometimes very funny. The Songs in the Key of Cree performance highlights the global importance of Indigenous languages.

Friday, November 8, 2019

Waterloo alum integrates healthcare models to meet the needs of Indigenous peoples

Cornelia (Nel) Wieman on wooded path

For Applied Health Sciences alumnus Cornelia (Nel) Wieman (MSc Kinesiology ’91), there is no question that Canada's healthcare system results in Indigenous peoples being poorly served and discriminated against. A desire to transform the system by intregrating culturally appropriate approaches for Indigenous peoples has been a focus of Wieman’s career as Canada’s first female Indigenous psychiatrist.