March Calendar

Feb 26, 2021

Here is a rather long uncurated list of events:
MYSEUM TORONTO 7 TO 9 EST
Beyond Just Words: A Land Acknowledgement Workshop
A participatory workshop that explores our relationship to land acknowledgements and re-evaluates how to make them more meaningful.
–> Register Here
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/beyond-just-words-a-land-acknowledgement-workshop-tickets-141885269661?aff=odeimcmailchimp&mc_cid=d52a4e8603&mc_eid=5139c8bf40
 
TODAY AT 3 EST OISE

Thursday, February 25th, 2021 3-4 PM. Ciimaan/Kahuwe’ya/Qajaq Indigenous language initiative presents Onkwehonwehneha A.I. (Onkwehonwe Ancient Intelligence, Respect for All Beings including Self) – An online talk with Moni Garr (Onkwehonwe, Akwesasne). MoniGarr is an Onkwehonwe XR Multi-Disciplinary Artist (performance, digital, beading, weaving, sewing, fashion design, Kanien’keha Revival, Haiku, Author, Audio, Visual) producing immersive digital art in the Indigenous Futurism / Survivalism genres. MoniGarr is trained in traditional, contemporary, modern arts & computer science for Indigenous Language Revival, Retention & Personal DeColonization. MoniGarr’s art spans decades to include raised woodlands beadwork, basket weaving, designing regalia, sneaker & fashion design, plant identification, Kanien’keha revival/retention, dance, videography, music, animation, character design, XR production, storytelling, stop motion video production and Digital Human Design – Rigging – Animation – Motion Capture. This event is free of charge, all are welcome to attend. Email CKQ Coordinator jenny.blackbird@utoronto.ca to register and receive the event link.

 
TODAY AT 4 EST

REDTalk: A Dish With One Spoon with Dr. Duke Redbird      

Join Elder and prolific artist Duke Redbird for a conversation about the Dish with One Spoon Treaty and what it means today.

 

TOMORROW FEBRUARY 26, 2021 AT 2 PM EST

Storytime with Dr. Chief Rev. Anna Frank

Please register for the Zoom link. https://forms.gle/kQ2gVGDuC1WRzUza9

FEBRUARY 27, 2021 AT 11:30 AM EST – 3 PM EST
Conestoga College VIRTUAL POW WOW
Facebook Live

Join us for a month-long worldwide online streaming event in celebration of Women’s History Month. “commUNITY: Herald Native Women” features a curation of online films all produced and/or directed by Native women beginning March 1, 2021. Our program portrays Native women in leadership, coming of age, and language revitalization stories suitable for the entire family. Accompanying the films, Vision Maker Media in partnership with Americans for Indian Opportunity (AIO) will host a moderated panel with effective Native women leaders.

The event is FREE and open to the public, but registration is required.
MARCH 1 @ 1 PM EST ONLINE
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March 2 11:30 AM EST
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MARCH 2nd 3 to 4 EST
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This series looks fabulous:P

Cindy Blackstock, executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society, will share her expertise in child welfare and Indigenous rights during the John W. Holmes Memorial Lecture on March 4 at York University’s Glendon Campus. The lecture is in English and is free to attend.

MARCH 6, 2021 AT 11:30 AM EST
Queen’s Conference on Indigenous Reconciliation 2021
 
Monday, March 8 at 4:00 pm EST  

REDTalk: HOPE MATTERS with Lee Maracle and her daughters, Columpa Bobb and Tania Carter
Join Red Sky as we celebrate International Women’s Day with award-winning writer Lee Maracle and her daughters

 

MAR 8 AT 10 AM EST – MAR 12 AT 4:30 PM EST
Métis Celebration Week

https://fb.me/e/4s9pFY6TD

Faith in the Declaration: Parliament is back. Take Action for UNDRIP

 
March 8 at 4:00 pm EST  

REDTalk: HOPE MATTERS with Lee Maracle and her daughters, Columpa Bobb and Tania Carter
Join Red Sky as we celebrate International Women’s Day with award-winning writer Lee Maracle and her daughters, Columpa Bobb and Tania Carter, for an indelible conversation about the journey of Indigenous people from colonial beginnings to reconciliation. Tickets –

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/redtalk-hope-matters-tickets-138674137077

MARCH 9, 16, 23, 30

Denise Nadeau | Decolonizing Water: An Introduction to Indigenous Water Laws  10:00 am – 11:30 am Pacific  
In this four-session interactive workshop, we will explore what decolonization of our relationship with water can mean. We will examine our own embodied connection to place and watersheds/water bodies and be briefly introduced to water teachings from Anishinaabe, Okanagan/Syilx, and Heiltsuk peoples. We will explore the Indigenous principle of reciprocity and how it relates to non – Indigenous gift traditions and what this means for human relationships with water. The recent work of the Heiltsuk Nation in developing their own water laws raises questions as to how Indigenous water laws and jurisdiction can be applied, enforced, and be supported by non-Indigenous people. The workshop will include guest speakers, body exercises, short videos and on-line resources, as well as readings from Unsettling Spirit: A Journey into Decolonization.
March 9: What is a decolonized and embodied relationship to water? Introduction to Indigenous water law
March 16: syilx water law through syilx story systems – Lower Similkameen Community
March 23: Heiltsuk water law- Kelly Brown and Diana Chan, Heiltsuk Integrated Resource Management Department
March 30: Anishinaabe water laws, UNDRIP, enforcement and support for Indigenous jurisdiction

Cost: $45.00 (Single Session drop-in cost: $15.00)
Location: Zoom on-line. A link to the program will be sent to you 5 days before the program begins.

 CLICK: THE GREEN BUTTON BELOW TO REGISTERREGISTER FOR THIS PROGRAM 
 
MARCH 15 – 17 MMIWG CONFERENCE ONWA
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 MARCH 17, 2021 AT 7 PM EDT – 8 PM EDT

Mohawk Institute Residential School Virtual Tour Fundraiser

MARCH 20th
1492 LAND BACK LANE (The last one was excellent:P)
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March 24, 2021 at 8 PM EDT – 9:30 PM EDT  

Treaty as Sacred Covenant Storytelling – Sandi Boucher  

MAR 25 AT 7 PM EDT – MAR 28 AT 5:45 AM EDT
Festival of Native Arts 2021
https://fb.me/e/4yKSuTVYZ

MAR 25 AT 7 PM EDT – MAR 28 AT 5:45 AM EDT

Festival of Native Arts 2021

March 28th
~Stay tuned for a New GoodMinds.com Video Web Series!~
13 Moons 13 Reads is launching on January 28th at 10 am. Subscribe to our GoodMinds.com YouTube to participate!  
Please click here to Subscribe. Thank you!
Scheduled Upcoming Moons :
Mar 28   Goose Moon- Authors Katherena Vermette (Métis) and Nicola Campbell (Nłeʔkepmx, Syilx and Métis)
Apr 27   Frog Moon- Author/Illustrator Lisa Boivin (Dene) and Poet Circle with authors Joseph Dandurand (Xalatsep), Rebecca Thomas (Mi’kmaw) and Rosanna Deerchild (Cree)
May 26  Budding Moon- Authors Tanya Talaga (Ojibwe) and David A. Robertson (Cree)
Jun 24    Blossom Moon- Author Wilfred Buck (Cree) and Author/Illustrator Sara and Robert Davidson (Haida)
Jul 24     Berry Moon- Authors Lee Maracle (Cree) and Cindy Blackstock (Gitxsan)
Aug 22   Harvest Moon- Authors Drew Hayden Taylor (Ojibwe) and Sean Lyons (Algonquin)
Sep 20   Fall Moon- Authors Waubgeshig Rice (Ojibwe) and Brett Huson (Gitxsan)
Oct 20   Migrating Moon- Authors Jesse Thistle (Metis/Cree) and Dr. Betty Lynxleg (Ojibwe)
Nov 19  Frost Moon- Authors Wab Kinew (Saulteaux) and KC Adams (Ojibwe- Cree)
Dec 19   Frozen Moon- Author Michael Hutchinson (Cree)
Jan 17/22   Spirit Moon- Author Nancy Cooper (Ojibwe)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Reconciling Ways of Knowing Forum
Connecting Spiritually with the Land and Each Other’ VIDEO

https://www.waysofknowingforum.ca/dialogue7

 
Monkey Beach the Movie 
Here & on Crave (Really good: P)
 

ONWA is proud to offer our virtual #DrumBook, as we learn these songs together. These beautiful songs and teachings were given to us by our territory. There may be different versions of these songs and teachings throughout Turtle Island.

 
Listen to stories from our ‘Return of the Buffalo’ community and wisdom from the knowledge-keepers who inspire us. https://sandysaulteaux.ca/return-of-the-buffalo/
 

Life and Legacy of Nicholas Black Elk Explored in Series on Indigenous Worldviews 

 
 
Real Truths with Sakokweniokwas (Thomas R. Porter); Part 1: The Good Mind

https://youtu.be/s89U5S1FBf0

 
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This story comes from A nokimis.
“The People of the Deer”
There have been many myths and legends told by the Old Ones.  This story happened a long time ago when only the People of the Forest lived in this land of ours.  During the summer these people lived in the mountains beside a lake or river where it was cool and pleasant.  There the men would fish or hunt, and the women would gather berries and dry them for use in the winter.  They were a happy people.  In the autumn they would travel south to where winter would be less cold and where the snow would not be too deep for their hunting and trapping.
Among these people lived an old man and his wife.  They had lived a good life and were very wise.  The old many had been a good hunter and had always been a great help to his people, especially in times of great need.  And the old women had also done good for her people and had made many sacrifices to the Good Spirits on behalf of others.  And the Good Spirits were pleased with the two old people.
The long warm summer went by and when the first flight of the wild geese flew overhead the people prepared to leave on their journey down to the low country.  The old man and the old woman waited for someone to come and help them, but no one came.  So day by day they made ready as well as they could for the journey down the mountain.  One morning they awoke to a land still and silent.
There were no dogs barking, as usual, no children’s laughter.  Their people had gone during the night.  “We must gather a great pile of wood, enough to last a long time,” the old man said.  “Very soon now the snow will come and cover up everything.”  So they gathered in the wood each day and soon they had enough to last them all the long winter, and always with the one thought in their hearts, that they had been left to die.
Storms blew over the mountains and the snows grew deep.  At night the old people huddled in their wigwam listening to the Storm Spirits howling up and down the mountains.  Their food supplies grew less and less, but the old woman never forgot each morning to feed the spirits of the departed by placing a small portion of food in the fires.  This gesture is an old Indian custom that is still practiced today among some of the Indian people, but only once a year.  In the autumn, an offering of various foods is given in thanksgiving to the Spirits.
One cold winter night, the old hunter died and the old woman took a deerskin robe and lay down beside the body of her husband.  She knew she would die of loneliness and the awful cold.  The woman slept, and in her dreams, she saw three people enter the hut.  A young man and woman, and an old man wearing a headdress of antlers. “Get up and light your fire,” said the old man with the antlers, “the Dancing People are coming.” “My husband is dead,” the woman said, “and I am old and lame and useless.”  “Your husband was a mighty hunter,” said the man with the antlers, “the dancing people knew him well.  He killed only what he needed, and never wasted anything.”  “But he is dead now,” the woman cried again, “and I am left alone.”  “Build your fire,” the leader said again, “the Dancing People have powerful medicine and great magic.  We have come to help you.  Five nights we will come.  Keep your fires burning but do not look at us, but only listen and listen well.”  Then the visitors vanished.
The old woman awoke and built up the fire.  Outside she heard the sound of many footsteps and strange-sounding bells and rattles with a weird chancing and music that throbbed to the rhythm of footsteps.  But she did not look out but sat by the fire until the sounds ceased and dawn was breaking. For two nights after that, the same thing happened.  The dancers came again and left at dawn.  On the fourth night, after the old woman had gone to sleep, strangers again entered the lodge.  “You have obeyed me,” said the leader, “now look well at this headdress I wear, so that you can make others like it.  Also at these rattles, we carry.  Listen carefully to our songs, you will have use for all this.  And when we come tomorrow night, you may look at us, but wait until our dance is almost finished.”  Again the strangers disappeared.
On the fifth night, the old woman did not sleep but waited to see what would happen.  And when footsteps approached the teepee, she listened again for the weird chanting music that throbbed to the rhythm of dancing feet.  And when the dance was almost ended she lifted the door of the flap and saw in front of the lodge, clearly silhouetted in the bright moonlight, the most beautiful and graceful reindeer moving forward and backward with antlers touching, and at the first touch of dawn the deer bolted off one by one.  The old woman placed more wood on the fire and sat down thinking about all the things she had seen and heard.  Once again the Dancing People came in.  Now the leader said, “You know who and what we are.  The spirits of the deer have come to help you. We give you medicine with great healing power which you can use to cure the sick and the wounded.”
The old woman took the rattles and bells and sang the songs she had heard and danced to their rhythm.  She felt great strength and energy flow through her body.  Very soon the old man moved his hand and opened his eyes and sat up and spoke to her.  Again the leader spoke, “There,” he said, pointing to the ground where lay a carcass of deer, “there is food that will last you until your people return.  Upon the rocks beyond I have scattered the insides of the deer which will forever grow like vines and moss.  This you will use as a medicine when you need it.  With the blood of the deer I have covered the willow tree and hereafter the bark will be red.  This you will recognize as a source of healing for internal sickness and disease,” said the stranger. “In the spring, when your people return, tell them all that you have learned.  Tell them also, old ones are not to be cast aside but are to be honoured and their wisdom used.”
 
#NativeTikTok community growing within app giant
 

The Seven Grandfathers with Clayton Shirt
http://rights.culturalsurvival.org/seven-grandfathers-clayton-shirt

(Clayton is on the Community advisory council of Dalla Lana School of Public Health.)
 

Colonialism has motherhood/parenting all wrong.

No, our babies will not sleep alone as they have been sleeping beside us, on us, and between us, for generations before the colonizer told us what was “right.”
No, our babies will not “cry it out,” as they are designed to cry to get their needs met through us. It is scientifically proven that “crying it out” causes all kinds of trauma on the brain, and thus snowballs into long-term emotional impacts. They will nurse, be held, hear our traditional songs and lullabies, and be placed in our swings for comfort, even if it is 10 times a night, so they know we are here and we love them fully.
No, our children will not stop nursing just because colonialism deems it as “inappropriate” anytime it is over the age of one. Because aunties and mothers (and even kokums) have been co-nursing our babies longer than colonialism has even existed. And it’s more than just food. It’s comfort, its connection, its safety. It’s love.
No, our babies will not be forced to grow up to cater to, and serve, capitalistic and colonial standards and environments in ways such as “sleeping through the night.” I’ll be up 10 times a night and show up the next day to get the work done. Until we are both ready to wean.
No, our babies will not have to endure tough outcomes in their lives based on our behaviours as adults- for how we treat others as adults, plants, animals and human, will fall back on our children, and our children’s children, and our children’s children’s children. We will treat one another with that deep love.
No, our babies will not be forced to suffer being away from kinships for long periods of time for capitalism and colonial ideas of “success” for an adult. If babies are present in classrooms, boardrooms, and workspaces, nursing and playing just to get that connecting time, that is indigenous kinship.
No, our babies will not be shamed, judged, or criticized for feeling emotions, because we are undoing what those priests and those nuns have taught us about our relationship to our emotions. All emotions are allowed in our homes and public spaces.
And no, our babies will never cater to the colonizer, their systems, or their standards of what a “good child” is.
Colonialism has motherhood/parenting all wrong.
Because our babies will grow up firm in their kinships and strong in who they are and where they come from.
Based on raising them as best as we can with the teachings, morals, and principles, of our nations and teachings.
And based on raising them in a way that works for us.
Because this is indigenous parenthood.
And it is a force to be reckoned with.
 Andrea Landry
 

Why is the world so beautiful? An Indigenous botanist on the spirit of life in everything

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/tapestry/why-is-the-world-so-beautiful-an-indigenous-botanist-on-the-spirit-of-life-in-everything-1.5817787?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar&fbclid=IwAR3ppvbH2k2-G6lBMlSS3URJxsSzNzSpyJ7BdSJruaAiyygb6ItrOmIkeCs

 
Taino Today Part One: Descendants Challenge Outdated Extinction Theory
For Indigenous Peoples it’s time to look within
 
The origins of the Iroquois people 
An Indigenous governor-general wouldn’t mean reconciliation. It would mean nothing 
 
Tying them here’: the tradition of Indigenous baby bracelets
Scientists sign a declaration that animals share the same awareness with humans

Vancouver Public Library’s new Indigenous storyteller in residence goes virtual

How Indigenous people and Vancouver librarians are redrawing family trees that colonialism nearly erased
Iqaluit Music Society takes $1-million Arctic Inspiration Prize
Meet 10 Indigenous women who are making the world a better place
Tribes Revive Traditional Hemp Economies
Ontario Nations find themselves losing ground with AFN processes

https://windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/ontario-nations-find-themselves-losing-ground-afn-processes

New CBC British Columbia podcast explores a young man’s journey to understand his Indigenous identity

Student creates video game to teach, preserve Ojibwe traditions 
Wapanatahk Media launches in Canada, with focus on Indigenous storytelling 
‘Our survival utterly depends on living in nature, not apart from it,’
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Indigenous language revitalization in Canada must be safeguarded now before a federal election
Délįnę women team up to teach Indigenous languages through cooking

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/dene-language-cooking-moose-stew-1.5911582?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar

‘Language of reconciliation’: Culture podcast series sheds light on Métis culture and Michif language

Four Things That Happen When a Language Dies 
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Beautiful little video: P
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From Murray Sinclair
Undoubtedly nearly all of you have heard the term “Low Man On The Totem Pole” to imply that “I have little or no status and have to answer to everyone above me” or “I’m the lowest person in the pecking order at work.” In Haida culture, that is as far from being correct as you can get. For the bottom crest is that of a woman and supports everything above her.
A hole is dug in the earth, the pole is erected and, it is said, “Gya’aang (History is Standing). “Her feet are in the water, her torso is in the land and her upper-body is in the air. Thus the Female Energy ties together Water, Earth and Sky.” The woman’s husband’s family stands on her shoulders. Should she lose her balance, all falls. Thus it is said that not only does the Female Energy tie together Water, Earth and Sky but the balance of the Cosmos is entirely dependent upon the stability of that Female Energy.”
“Haw’aa for making me Xaat’aay (Human), Born of a Woman.”
Writer: Haida cedar bark weaver

Meadow Lake Tribal Council releases Cree and Dene language apps

New road signs in Teslin, Yukon, aim to promote Tlingit language

Inuktitut added to language translator software
Writing Myself into Existence: An Essay on the Erasure of Black Indigenous Identity in Canadian Education  (Beautiful article)

https://yellowheadinstitute.org/2021/01/28/writing-myself-into-existence/

 
Maclean’s has published its 2021 Power List, including 9 Indigenous people in its ranking alongside#JoyceEchaquan
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An unconventional awareness campaign aims to build trust for the COVID-19 vaccine among Indigenous people

Suspected cases of coronavirus variant now in 2 Manitoba First Nations

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/another-blow-pauingassi-first-nation-highly-contagious-variant-covid-19-1.5914653?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar

Indigenous communities are denied the most important medicine people can receive: Kindness 

Indigenous family creates sweet grass, sage, cedar, sweet tobacco infused hand sanitizers
https://edmonton.citynews.ca/video/2021/01/24/indigenous-family-creates-sweet-grass-sage-cedar-sweet-tobacco-infused-hand-sanitizers/

We have to help one another to survive’: A conversation with Jonas Allooloo


https://www.anglicanjournal.com/we-have-to-help-one-another-to-survive-a-conversation-with-jonas-allooloo/

Alberta hospital under investigation after death of Ojibway woman
https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/investigation-underway-into-how-ojibway-woman-died-while-in-care-of-alberta-hospital/
Indigenous patients feel unsafe in BC health-care system: new Turpel-Lafond report
Indigenous people lack access to health care because of systemic racism, report says

Indigenous people in B.C. 75% more likely to end up in ER, report says

Racism in Health Care Is Taking a Terrible Toll on Indigenous People, Report Finds

 
Vancouver Island Health cultural safety department say they faced backlash

McMaster University partnership brings eye care to Indigenous children in northern communities

Crisis in northern Ontario nursing stations: Health workers sound the alarm

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