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Join us for a presentation and talk by Indigenous author and editor, Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm — part of the Indigenous Speakers Series, co-presented by the Waterloo Aboriginal Education Centre and the Faculty of Arts.

WHEN: Thursday, January 18, 4:00 to 5:30 PM

WHERE: Theatre of the Arts, ML

Story from the Waterloo Region Record, September 23, 2017. As part of the conversation surrounding intergenerational trauma and reconciliation, seven female leaders from different parts of Waterloo Region’s Indigenous community share their personal healing journeys.


Google has added 3,000 Canadian Indigenous reserves and settlement lands to Google Maps and Google Earth platforms.

The search engine giant unveiled the project on Wednesday, which is National Aboriginal Day in Canada. Steven DeRoy, an Indigenous cartographer who played a key role in the initiative says that the “impetus for the project was to make sure that Indigenous peoples are reflected on the base maps.”

If you’ve ever been to an event at the Waterloo Aboriginal Education Centre (WAEC), you might have a pretty good idea of why the University’s Status of Women and Equity Committee (SWEC) awarded the Centre with the 2017 Equity and Inclusivity Award.

Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Canada's largest annual academic gathering that takes place this year at Ryerson University in Toronto, May 27 to June 2, features an array of high-profile events on reconciliation.

The Faculty of Arts and the Waterloo Aboriginal Education Centre (WAEC) are co-sponsoring a new Indigenous Speakers Series highlighting the voices of Indigenous artists, writers, activists, and leaders from across Turtle Island. The series offers UWaterloo students, faculty and staff opportunities to learn from, understand and engage with Indigenous issues.

Post-secondary institutions across the country have been looking to implement new policies, programs and events to support the work started by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in 2008.But there is concern about how effective these changes can be due to the long history of colonization and the oppression of Indigenous peoples.

Kim Anderson, Cree/Métis writer educator and associate professor at Wilfrid Laurier University in Indigenous Studies, created the work "A Canadian Conversation." The digital story weaves performance art and the archive as a response to the installation of a statue of Sir John A. McDonald, Canada's first Prime Minister, at Laurier University.