"Like a String of Beads/âniskôhôcikan: Indigenous Futurisms" with Chelsea Vowel

Event Date: 
Tuesday, March 7, 2023 - 2:30pm to 4:00pm EST
Event Location: 
Zoom - http://tiny.cc/vowel
Event Contact Name: 
Max Haiven
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The Department of English at Lakehead University is pleased to present a public talk by Chelsea Vowel "Like a String of Beads/âniskôhôcikan: Indigenous Futurisms."

Chelsea Vowel is Métis from manitow-sâkahikan (Lac Ste. Anne) Alberta, residing in amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton). Parent to six children, she has a BEd, LLB, and MA. She is a Cree language instructor at the Faculty of Native studies at the University of Alberta.

Chelsea is a public intellectual, writer, and educator whose work intersects language, gender, Métis self-determination, and resurgence. Author of Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada, she and her co-host Molly Swain produce the Indigenous feminist sci-fi podcast Métis in Space, and co-founded the Métis in Space Land Trust.

March 7, 2023
2:30-3:45pm, online
Register for zoom link at
http://tiny.cc/vowel
In-person viewing is possible in Thunder Bay in AT 3006

Co-sponsors:
Indigenous Learning Program
Indigenous Access Program
Office of Indigenous Initiatives (Orillia)
Social Justice Studies Program