Filmmaker Courtney Montour discusses her research process in the creation of her film. Her research resulted in her gaining access to never-before-seen footage of Mary Two-Axe Earley and visits with Mary鈥檚 friends and family. She describes the methods she used to gather her research and how she was able to bring this important film to screen. Dr. Beverly Jacobs shares her perspective on the impact that Mary Two-Axe Earley had on rights for Indigenous women in Canada. She also explains how Mary鈥檚 work was the motivating factor for the implementation of Bill C-31.

Inaugural Visiting Scholar, Tasha Beeds

Storying Methodology and Theories: An Indigenous Grassroots Academic Perspective

On Monday, March 14, 2022, join Visiting Indigenous Scholar Tasha Beeds in a discussion on Indigenous grassroots academic research approaches. In this talk, Tasha will share some of her experiences as an Indigenous land and water activator who brought Indigenous knowledges, intellectual traditions, and spiritual understandings into her doctoral research.

Join us via zoom March 14th, 6:00-7:30 Eastern Time

To register:听

email: naomibird@cunet.carleton.ca听 or by form:

Mary Two-Axe Earley: I am Indian Again, a film by Courtney Montour.

Join us on Monday, March 7, 2022 at 6:00-8:00 ET

Mary Two-Axe Earley: I Am Indian Again shares the powerful story of Mary Two-Axe Earley, who fought for more than two decades to challenge sex discrimination against First Nations women embedded in Canada鈥檚 Indian Act and became a key figure in Canada鈥檚 women鈥檚 rights movement.

To register for this event:

email: naomibird@cunet.carleton.ca or by form:

膧nako Indigenous Research Institute Presents

Inaugural Visitng Scholar, Tasha Beeds

Research Talk: Living Memories and Sacred Trusts: Ethical Dimension of Indigenous Research

Indigenous communities, movement, or in this case “research,” seldom occurs in isolation; Instead, it inherently reflects our interconnectedness with each other and with the rest of Creation. With this understanding, everything we do links back not only to our people, but also to the Lands, Waters, and all living beings through a continuum that stretches back to our Ancestors and into the future. Ethics, in an academic context is usually applied to living beings; however, within Indigeneity, the concept of living is extended beyond the human realm. As such, the concept of ethics takes on new dimensions

Join us via zoom: January 24, 2022 at 6:00-7:30 pm Eastern Standard

Registration is free. Please register via , or email naomi.bird@cunet.carleton.ca.

Once registered, you will receive a link via your email one day prior to the event.

A Virtual Fireside Chat with Henry Lickers on Indigenous and Western Science.

Henry is Seneca from the Six Nations Reserve and has spent his career dedicated to bridging Indigenous and Western science in the field of biology. This fireside chat will be an informal discussion between Henry Lickers and Biology professors from 杏吧原创 University and the University of Ottawa on the connections and relations between Western Science and Indigenous Science. This meaningful discussion is meant to reframe thinking regarding Indigenous Science and help to promote dialogue between Universities and local Indigenous Nations. It was through the support of the Shared Online Projects Initiative (SOPI) grant that the Assistant Vice-President of Indigenous Initiatives and professors in Biology were able to come together for this important event. Please join us virtually on January 6th for this chat.

The event poster, and information about the guest panelists, can be found below.

Registration

Registration closes on January 6th, 2022. To register, please or email naomibird@cunet.carleton.ca.

Alanis Obomsawin during her interview with the CFN

Last week we were fortunate to have Alanis Obomsawin share her reflections on her long career as a Indigenous (Abenaki) female filmmaker with the . On Thursday evening Alanis was interviewed by Tom McSorley of the 听(CFI). This was an intimate discussion about her journey as a young activist and educator who used song and storytelling to share an alternative narrative about Indigenous people. Eventually this lead to a position at the NFB where she went on to become one of the most important documentary filmmakers in Canada. Her career at the NFB has spanned almost 50 years and has included films like “” a documentary on Oka and Indigenous resistance.

On Friday afternoon 听on the 杏吧原创 campus, hosted a “meet & greet” with Alanis for students. Alanis spent a couple hours graciously speaking with students and answering questions they had regarding her work as well as sharing their own projects and research.

Alanis Obomsawin with 杏吧原创 students. Image provided by听Ojigkwanong

On Friday evening Alanis screened her newest documentary “We Can’t Make the Same Mistake Twice” which covers the 听filed against the Canadian Government in 2007 for a discrimination against children living on reserve. (more info here on the )

What a gift to have such an incredible force for change honour 杏吧原创 as well as the larger community of Ottawa with her wisdom and presence.

Thanks to the Canadian Film Institute (CFI) for providing the opportunity with their .

Images provided by .

The Canadian Film Institute’s CANADIAN MASTERS Series welcomes Alanis Obomsawin to Ottawa!

This week documentary filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin (Abenaki) will be visiting Ottawa as part of the CANADIAN MASTERS series presented by the Canadian Film Institute in听collaboration with 杏吧原创 University鈥檚 School For Studies In Art and Culture: Film Studies.

The Canadian Film Institute鈥檚 Canadian Masters series is an annual celebration of excellence in Canadian filmmaking, featuring extensive onstage interviews, special screenings, and audience discussions with some of the greatest names in Canadian film history. In our 2016-2017 inaugural season, we are honoured to present three extraordinary Canadian masters of the moving image: Atom Egoyan (November), Alanis Obomsawin (January), and Guy Maddin (March).

FRIDAY, JANUARY 27 – Screening of “We Can’t Make the Same Mistake Twice” with Alanis Obomsawin in Attendance

7 – 10 pm (doors open at 6:30 pm)
Theatre at Richcraft Hall (Formerly the River Building)
FREE!

We would like to acknowledge that the land on which this event will be held is part of unceded Algonquin territory.

This past fall CIRCLE (Centre for Indigenous Research, Culture, Language and Education) hosted several successful events featuring 3 Indigenous women who are rocking their work –听 (Inuit), (Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory) and (Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg).

Each event was well attended with amazing feedback from those who听came out. We thank each of these women for sharing听their work along with their insights. Everyone who attended left inspired!

16.10.07 Screening of TUNNIIT: Retracing the lines of Inuit tattoos听followed by Q & A with director Alethea Arnaquq-Baril

鈥淎 young woman is on a journey to revive the ancient Inuit tradition of face tattooing. Inuit tattoos have been forbidden for a century, and almost forgotten. Alethea Arnaquq-Baril struggles to find out all she can before she is tattooed herself.

She has met serious resistance from some of her fellow Inuit. However, a number of brave elders are willing to talk about the tattoos, and the massive and sudden cultural changes that caused their decline.鈥�

For more information on 鈥淭unniit鈥� and other films by Alethea visit .

16.11.21 Screening of The Grandfather of All Treaties followed by听Q & A with director Candace Maracle

鈥淭he Grandfather of All Treaties or the Two Row Wampum, is considered the most important diplomatic instrument in First Nation鈥檚 history. Wampum belts often accompanied written treaties between two nations and were created in the spirit of friendship. The Two Row Wampum consists of two rows of purple beads separated by three rows of white. The white symbolizes the river of life or the land that we all now share. The two purple rows symbolize the Haudenosaunee and the Europeans traveling side by side, never interfering with each other鈥檚 journey. Subsequent agreements are predicated upon this one. Each nation recognized the other鈥檚 sovereignty and ecological stewardship was central to that co-existence. This documentary examines those central tenets and the Indigenous mobilization that is happening across North America as a response to not honouring this agreement and the power of the people to affect real change in the world.鈥�

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16.11.24听Performing “f(l)ight: Songs & Stories for a Radical Indigenous Present”

“Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg artist, musician, poet and writer, who has been widely recognized as one of the most compelling Indigenous voices of her generation.

Leanne’s RPM debut LP, f(l)light, is a haunting collection of story-songs that effortlessly interweave Simpson鈥檚 complex poetics and multi-layered stories of the land, spirit, and body with lush acoustic and electronic arrangements, and claims a unique space in contemporary Indigenous music and performance.

The album is a haunting, powerful hybrid of words, songs, and perspectives. From the gentle invocation of other forms of life offered in songs like 鈥淩oad Salt鈥� and 鈥淭he Oldest Tree in the World鈥�, to the dissonant sonics of 鈥淐aribou Ghosts and Untold Stories鈥� and the pulsing, hypnotic rhythms of 鈥淯nder Your Always Light鈥�, Simpson鈥檚 words reverberate within and between the sounds that surround them.

f(l)ight is the sound of ancestral memory and present possibility unfolding toward a horizon of freedom.”

“Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg artist, musician, poet and writer, who has been widely recognized as one of the most compelling Indigenous voices of her generation.

Leanne’s RPM debut LP, f(l)light, is a haunting collection of story-songs that effortlessly interweave Simpson鈥檚 complex poetics and multi-layered stories of the land, spirit, and body with lush acoustic and electronic arrangements, and claims a unique space in contemporary Indigenous music and performance

The album is a haunting, powerful hybrid of words, songs, and perspectives. From the gentle invocation of other forms of life offered in songs like 鈥淩oad Salt鈥� and 鈥淭he Oldest Tree in the World鈥�, to the dissonant sonics of 鈥淐aribou Ghosts and Untold Stories鈥� and the pulsing, hypnotic rhythms of 鈥淯nder Your Always Light鈥�, Simpson鈥檚 words reverberate within and between the sounds that surround them.

f(l)ight is the sound of ancestral memory and present possibility unfolding toward a horizon of freedom.”

MIIGWECH TO OUR CO-SPONSORS:

• Ojigkwanong (Centre for Aboriginal Culture and Education)
• School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies
• Indigenous Policy and Administration Department
• Mawandoseg (Aboriginal Student Services)
• MacOdrum Library
• English Department

Poster Transcript

CIRCLE: Centre for Indigenous Research, Culture, Language & Education

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson performing: ‘f(l)ight: Songs & Stories for a radical Indigenous Present’

Date: Thursday, November 24

Time: 7-8:30 PM

Location: Azrieli Theatre Rm 302

Azrieli Building, 杏吧原创 University, Ottawa

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