International Inuit Day
- Date
- November 07, 2023
- Time
- 12:00 PM EST - 1:00 PM EST
- Location
- Jet Ice Lounge, 4th floor, Mattamy Athletic Centre (50 Carlton Street)
- Open To
- Students, faculty, staff and community members
- Contact
- Cher Trudeau cktrudeau@torontomu.ca
Join an engaging talk for International Inuit Day about Inuit treaties and their importance, led by Katherine Minich, PhD student in Policy Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU). The event will open with a performance by Monica Ittusardjuat.
Food and refreshments will be provided.
About Katherine Minich
Katherine is currently enrolled in the PhD Policy Studies program at TMU and is a lecturer at Carleton University with a focus on the practices of Indigenous self-determination in community, particularly Inuit self-determination practices in Nunavut. This includes studying the policy spaces in the cash and non-cash political economies and policy processes in community, self-government and citizen organizations. Learn more about Katherine Minich.
About Monica Ittusardjuat
Monica Ittusardjuat is an Inuktitut language expert and Inuktitut editor at Inhabit Education, which is a Nunavut-based educational resource development company that was incorporated in 2014. Monica has thirty years of experience in education and language studies. (M.Ed.) She has taught in elementary and high schools, as well as in the Teacher Education Program at Nunavut Arctic College. She has also worked at Nunavut Arctic College’s Inuktitut Centre of Excellence, teaching Inuktitut linguistics at the Interpreter/Translator and Inuit Studies Program. She also worked at the National Inuit Organization for the unification of the Inuktut writing system. After trying to retire, Monica started a new career as a Senior Inuktitut Editor, which she says is her “dream job.”
24 Nations Wampum Belt
Two Row Wampum Belt
Dish With One Spoon Belt
1794 Canandaigua Treaty Belt (George Washington Belt)
1764 Niagara Treaty Belt
This event is part of Treaties Recognition Week
Treaties Recognition Week honours the importance of treaties and aims to empower students, faculty and staff with a greater awareness and understanding of treaty rights, treaty relationships and their relevance today. In 2016, Ontario passed the first legislation (external link) of its kind in Canada declaring the first full week of November as Treaties Recognition Week.
Brought to you by the Treaties Recognition Week committee
This year’s event is organized by a collective of Indigenous and non-Indigenous colleagues, led by Cher Trudeau, Administrative Coordinator, Indigenous Education Council and Indigenous Initiatives.
The committee includes staff from Gdoo-maawnjidimi Mompii Indigenous Student Services and Indigenous Initiatives in the Office of the Vice-President, Equity and Community Inclusion; Indigenous Education Council in the Office of the Provost and Vice-President, Academic; the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching; the Ceremonials Office; the Indigenous Law School Students Association (ILSSA); Saagajiwe in The Creative School; TMU Libraries, Archives and Special Collections; Toronto Metropolitan Association of Part-Time Students (TMAPS); Toronto Met Students Union (TMSU); and Treaty Relations in Business Education (TRIBE).
This event is wheelchair accessible
The university is committed to the accessibility and inclusion of persons with disabilities. If you require any additional accessibility accommodations to ensure your full participation, please email Cher Trudeau, Administrative Coordinator, Indigenous Education Council and Indigenous Initiatives, at cktrudeau@torontomu.ca.
Questions?
If you have any questions, please email Cher Trudeau, Administrative Coordinator, Indigenous Education Council and Indigenous Initiatives, at cktrudeau@torontomu.ca.