“Treaties Recognition Week is the first week of November every year. Treaties Recognition Week was introduced in 2016 to honour the importance of treaties and to help Ontarians learn more about treaty rights and treaty relationships.
Ontario is covered by 46 treaties. See a map with the full list.”
https://www.ontario.ca/page/treaties
Lakehead University respectfully acknowledges its campuses are located on the traditional lands of Indigenous people.
Lakehead Thunder Bay is located on the traditional lands of the Fort William First Nation, Signatory to the Robinson Superior Treaty of 1850. Lakehead Orillia is located on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg. The Anishinaabeg include the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Pottawatomi nations, collectively known as the Three Fires Confederacy.
Lakehead University acknowledges the history that many nations hold in the areas around our campuses, and is committed to a relationship with First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples based on the principles of mutual trust, respect, reciprocity, and collaboration in the spirit of reconciliation.
As a response to Call 57, “We call upon federal, provincial, territorial, and municipal governments to provide education to public servants on the history of Aboriginal peoples, including the history and legacy of residential schools, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Treaties and Aboriginal rights, Indigenous law, and Aboriginal–Crown relations. This will require skills- based training in intercultural competency, conflict resolution, human rights, and anti-racism”, we are hosting several opportunities for student, faculty and staff to engage in continuing their learning next week.
Orillia Campus
Monday, November 4, 2019
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
Thursday, November 7, 2019
Friday, November 8, 2019
Doing Research in A Good Way
10 am - noon
OA3007
Registration
This workshop, co-facilitated by Rebecca Heffernan, Research Services, and Denise Baxter, Vice Provost, Aboriginal Initiatives, will explore how to get started in doing research in a good way with Indigenous communities and organizations. It will cover formal frameworks for engaging with communities, co-creating knowledge, and sharing research data and the results of research (e.g. OCAP principles, TCPS2 Chapter 9). The workshop will also explore the more informal but equally important aspects of relationship building that underlie these formal frameworks: dos and don'ts in approaching Indigenous organizations/communities for research partnerships, differences in Indigenous and western/mainstream cultural understandings of research and knowledge creation, and ensuring relational accountability throughout the research process.
Light refreshments will be served.
To attend, please RSVP to Rebecca at orillia.research@lakeheadu.ca
Thunder Bay Campus
Monday, November 4, 2019
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
Indigenous Voices on Treaties Film Screening
Noon to 1:30 pm
ACSS Aboriginal Student Lounge (UC1007)
Open to all students, staff and faculty
Refreshments provided
Nisga’a Dancing in Both Worlds Film Screening
12:00 noon to 1:00 pm
PA 0019, Bora Laskin Faculty of Law
Thursday, November 7, 2019
Friday, November 8, 2019
Book Launch
2:30 pm to 4:30 pm
The Study
Authors Dr. Kim Anderson, a distinguished Indigenous scholar and Rene Meshake, an accomplished Anishinaabe storyteller and artist will be joining us to share the launch of their book, My Soul in Story.
Light snacks and refreshments provided.
RSVP EVENT BRITE- BOOK LAUNCH
Chancellor Paterson Library, Education Library, Law Library, and Orillia Library
Each of the 3 libraries in Thunder Bay: Chancellor Paterson Library, Education Library, and Law Library, as well as the University Avenue branch of the Orillia campus wishes to acknowledge Treaties Recognition Week. Each of the libraries invites students, faculty, and visitors to examine the many resources they will have on display. Resources will include books pertaining to treaties in Canada as well as resources designed to help teach the history of treaties within the elementary and secondary school classroom. The displays will also include a variety of informative handouts that pertain to treaties such as bibliographies and bookmarks.
Classroom Resources for Professors and Instructors
