Native Awareness Days at STU
Kip will be set up at STU’s Native Awareness Days this week, Nov. 17-21. We’ve got new issues of the Dominion, Fredericton Anti-Poverty T-shirts (as a fundraiser for FAPO), and all our usual stuff. Come listen to some great speakers and check us out!
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Published: November 6, 2008
“Native Awareness Days: Combating Convenient Untruths” will be taking place from November 17-21, 2008.
The purpose of this event is to broaden the scope of understanding of issues that pertain to First Nations, Inuit and Metis peoples.
This event, organized by the Native Student Council with support from St. Mary’s First Nation (Education Department), Kingsclear First Nation, Strax (UNB), St. Thomas University Student Union, Inuit Tapariit Kanatami and the Fredericton Childcare Collective, will feature a number of guest lecturers touching on various different topics such as Genocide, Rhetoric, and the Residential School Apology.
• Ward Churchill, Eugenics by Any Other Name: The Scientific Foundations of the Social Sciences:
Tuesday, November 18 – 7 pm in Margaret McCain Auditorium.
A political activist and author of books such as: From a Native Son: Selected Essays on Indigenism. (1985-1995), A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas 1492 to the Present (1998), Fantasies of the Master Race: Literature, Cinema and the Colonization of American Indians (1998) and many more…
• Isabelle Knockwood, The Apology: Apik’sik’tu’a'qn:
Wednesday, November 19, 7 pm – Conference Room in Holy Cross House
A Mi’kmaq elder from Shubenacadie, NS. Author of Out of the Depths: the experiences of Mi’kmaw children at the Indian Residential School at Shubenacadie Nova Scotia. (1998). Knockwood is a former student who survived the Residential School system.
• Dr. Roland Chrisjohn, Half Truths and Whole Lies: The Role of Rhetoric in Truth and Reconciliation:
Thursday, November 20, 7 pm – Brian Mulroney Hall (Room 202)
Director and Professor of Native Studies at St. Thomas University and author of The Circle Game: Shadows and Substance in the Residential School Experience in Canada, among many other works can be found at www.nativestudies.org.
• The event will close with a feast and guest drummers The Muskrat Singers from St. Mary’s First Nation. Friday, November 21, 6 pm – Native Student Lounge (Sir James Dunn Hall)
Free childcare will be provided by the Fredericton Childcare Collective. For more information contact Matthew Abbott (f2m5t@unb.ca).
And for more information regarding “Native Awareness Days” please contact (nativestudentcouncil@gmail.com)
