“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

• Opening and Treaties 101
  Alumni Commons
  10 am - 11am 
  Everyone is welcome to join us for an opening prayer and address followed by a 15-minute Introduction to Treaties workshop followed by a Q & A Discussion over light refreshments. 

• KAIROS Blanket Exercise  
  Heritage Place Campus
  12:30 pm to 2:30 pm
  All welcome!
  
  

Tuesday, November 5, 2019

• Land Acknowledgement Discussion
  Heritage Place Info Table in Main Hallway 10am - 12noon
  Tipi 3pm - 4pm
  
  

Wednesday, November 6, 2019

• Culture Night Film Screening: Trick or Treaty
  OA1033
  7pm - 8:30 pm
  
  

Thursday, November 7, 2019 

• Community Panel Discussion
  OA2014
  6pm - 7pm
  
  

Friday, November 8, 2019 

• Coffee and Conversations 
  Simcoe Hall Main Hallway
  10am - 12noon 
  Open to all campus students, staff, and faculty to discuss key points from the
  week over a cup of coffee. 

• 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

• Opening Ceremonies 
  11 am
  Agora
  Opening- Elder Gerry Martin
  Welcoming remarks- President M. McPherson
  Keynote- TBD, Fort William First Nation
  All welcome
  
  

• Understanding Treaties Presentation
  12:00 pm (noon)
  PA 3008, Bora Laskin Faculty of Law
  Elder Gerry Martin
   

• Book Display 
  Chancellor Paterson Library
  Monday to Friday
  Book display on the main floor of the Chancellor Paterson Library with resources pertaining to Treaties. 
  All Welcome

Tuesday, November 5, 2019

• ACSS - Treaties Plinko
  11am to noon
  Agora
  Join ACSS in the Agora to learn more about Treaties
  Come and win some prized and test your knowledge!
  
  

• LUNCH & LEARN:  Duty to Consult & Accommodate
  12 noon to 1:00 pm
  Faculty Lounge
  Join Robert Pierre, Economic Development Manager of FWFN, as he discusses important aspects of Duty to Consult & Accommodate.
  https://fwfn.com/departments/duty-to-consult-accommodate/
  RSVP Event Brite
   

• Trick or Treaty? Film Screening
  12:00 noon to 1:30 pm
  PA 3006 (Paterson Auditorium), Bora Laskin Faculty of Law

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

• Treaty Information Table
  12:00 noon to 1:30 pm
  Gakina Nindinawemaaganag Lounge – UC1007
  
  

• Teaching and Learning after TRC:  An Indigenous Feminist Lens
  Dr. Kim Anderson
  2:30 pm – 4:30 pm
  LI 5014
  Open to Lakehead Faculty and Staff
  
  

• Decolonizing Research Ethics:  Challenges & Possibilities
  7:30 pm
  CASES Atrium
  Open to public
  
  

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.

• Main library website https://library.lakeheadu.ca to access library resources

• Education Library   https://libguides.lakeheadu.ca/education?group_id=14994

• Law Library  https://libguides.lakeheadu.ca/lawlib?group_id=14995

• And Orillia Campus Library https://libguides.lakeheadu.ca/hllib?group_id=15039

• A helpful research guide with information on Treaties:
  https://libguides.lakeheadu.ca/indigelearning/treaties

• Everyone is welcome to stop in and browse the resources on display 

• See more from the library in the Communication Bulletin

Classroom Resources for Professors and Instructors

• We have included a link to a brief PPT that all faculty may consider using during their classes the week of November 4-8, 2019 as they acknowledge the traditional lands that our learning occurs on. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rqtSZXhYxr3SZ8QZyi1B6HW1G7kZUSBxnCRMKXFermg/edit?usp=sharing

• We ask that you consider opening your classes with a land acknowledgement as an acknowledgement of Treaty Recognition Week

• A short video to share with your class on Treaties:
  Heritage Minutes: Naskumituwin (Treaty) (1:00)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVVD9yYCKiI