Treaties Recognition Week - Opening Ceremony with Guest Speaker Dr. Gina Starblanket

Event Date: 
Monday, November 1, 2021 - 12:30pm EDT
Event Location: 
via Zoom
Event Contact Name: 
Sheila Pelletier-Demerah
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Treaties Recognition Week - Opening Ceremony

with Guest Speaker Dr. Gina Starblanket

Audience: Open to Public 

Monday, November 1st, 2021

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Opening - Elder Gene Nowegejick 

Welcome remarks - Provost & Vice President David Barnett 

Guest Speaker Dr. Gina Starblanket 

Title: Seeding our Future.

About the speaker:

Dr. Gina Starblanket

Dr. Gina Starblanket is an Associate Professor in Indigenous Governance at the University of Victoria and is the former Canada Research Chair in the Politics of Decolonization at the University of Calgary. Gina is Cree and Saulteaux and a member of the Star Blanket Cree Nation in Treaty 4 territory. She is the Principal Investigator of the Prairie Indigenous Relationality Network, and her research takes up questions of treaty implementation, prairie Indigenous life, gender and Indigenous feminism.

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