Film with Local Roots Wins Awards

Treaty Walk: A journey for Common Ground, wins the Miguel Cifuentes Radical Change Award and isCo-Winner of Best Canadian Film November 25, 2021- CLiFF (Canadian Labor International Film Festival) is a publicly attended film festival that is national in scope. The first iteration of CLiFF was held in 2009 across Canada in nine provinces and …

Lana Whiskeyjack – nêhiyaw artist’s Virtual (or In Person) Art Exhibit

Lana Whiskeyjack is a multidisciplinary artist and scholar from Saddle Lake Cree Nation, Treaty Six, Alberta. Based in amiskwaciy waskahikan, Whiskeyjack creates deeply thoughtful works steeped in emotional and spiritual significance. As the title of the exhibition suggests, her work is an act of recognition and gratitude to ancestral medicine, restoring balance and nêhiyaw perspective.   “A traditional concept that …

Podcast Episode 149: Performing History & Land in Vancouver’s Stanley Park — with Selena Couture

Performance scholar and Associate Professor in the Dramatic Arts department at the University of Alberta Selena Couture joins Am Johal to talk about her latest book, Against the Current and Into the Light. Selena speaks about how her book explores varying historical and contemporary performances involving Stanley Park through language, relationships to land, and the unlearning …

Mannawanis Friendship Centre

Learn Cree - Wednesdays 6:00-7:15 pm Free Proof of vaccination required. Address: 4901 50 Street, St. Paul Come be a part of nêhiyawêwin language revitalization. Everyone is welcome, no prior knowledge required. Why learn Cree or nêhiyawêwin? it's the language that is spoken by the original people of this areaif you are Cree, it is …

Fourth World Anti-Colonialism Online Presentation

Special guest talk by Assoc. Prof. Glen Coulthard, UBC It examines the political work undertaken by a small but dedicated cadre of Native organizers going by the name Native Alliance for Red Power (or NARP) in Vancouver, British Columbia (BC), from 1967 to the 1975.  Glen Coulthard's talk is part of a short online lecture …