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Past Events & Initiatives
Explore past events and initiatives at TMU relating to Indigenous culture, social issues, education and more.
- Cultivating Indigenous Collaboration in Curriculum with Dr. Shiri Pasternak (Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, 2022)
- Highlights from National Indigenous Peoples Day 2022 at TMU (September 2022)
- Misogyny kʷil Misogyny-Miskwaa: A Conversation about Misogyny within the Indigenous Community (external link) (Indigenous Resurgence, Faculty of Community Services, September 2022)
- Reclaiming & Renaming: Indigenous Placemaking at TMU (external link) (Social Justice Week, November 2022)
- Indigenous STEAM Speaker Series (November 2022)
- Indigenous STEAM Speaker Series (February 2021)
- #LandBack: What does it mean & how do you enact it? (external link) (Yellowhead Institute, March 2021)
- How Are Indigenous Women Entrepreneurs Building Their Businesses? (external link) (Ted Rogers School of Management, March 2021)
- International Indigenous Intellectual Speaker Series (Indigenous Resurgence, Faculty of Community Services)
- What does Indigenous intellectual mean to us? (external link) (March 2021)
- What's the most pressing issue in your field? (external link) (March 2021)
- What does the International Trans Day of Visibility mean to you and what does inclusion mean to you more broadly? (external link) (March 2021)
- What are your best strategies for Indigenous resurgence in academia? (external link) (April 2021)
- National Indigenous Peoples Day Opening Ceremony (external link) (June 2021)
- Taking up the TRC Calls to Action in our Teaching (external link) (Orange Shirt Day, Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, September 2021)
- 2021 Virtual Pow Wow (external link) (September 2021)
- Virtual Education Week (September 2021)
- Health, Nutrition, and Wellness (external link)
- Embarking on the Path of a Canoe Builder (external link)
- Afro-Indigenous Kin Project: Partially Sponsored by Afro-Indigenous Kin (external link)
- Mindfulness: Collage Making and Painting (external link)
- Moccasin Flow Yoga (external link)
- Pow Wow Fitness (external link)
- Marketing & Ecommerce - Tips & Open Discussion (external link)
- Dot Art Workshop Inspired by Metis Beadwork (external link)
- Panel with the Indigenous Fashion Support Program (external link)
- Metis Identity (Indigenous Resurgence, Faculty of Community Services)
- Webinar 1 (external link) (September 2021)
- Webinar 2 (external link) (November 2021)
- Indigenous Speaker Series (Ted Rogers School of Management, summer 2020)
- Stoodis Science Virtual Hide Camp (SciXchange, Faculty of Science, September 2020)
- 2020 Virtual Pow Wow (external link) (September 2020)
- Virtual Education Week (September 2020)
- Build Your Digital Platform: Tips from Cheekbone Beauty (external link)
- Healing Through Art Journaling (external link)
- Afro Indigeneity: Conversations on Identity, Reclamation, and Allyship (external link)
- Historical and Cultural Significance of Pow Wows (external link)
- Êmîcêtôcêt: Many Bloodlines (external link)
- NAISA Mural Unveiling (external link)
- Lesley Hampton x Scott Wabano Collaboration (external link)
- Feasting the Future: Pow Wow and Black-Indigenous Futures (external link)
- Wonder Wander: Medicine Walks with Mashkikii Bimosewin (external link)
- Beading Circles in Colonial Institutions (external link)
- SciXchange Lyed Corn Workshop (external link)
- Finding Our Power Together (external link)
- Indigenous Foods: Seeding to Eating (external link)
- Lacrosse Q&A with Dallas Squire, Keir Johnston, & Mekwan Tulpin (external link)
- SciXchange Fish Skin Tanning (external link)
- Global Solidarity Series - Indigenous Perspectives From Turtle Island And Beyond (external link)
- Kids Corner:
- Ko-Ko-Ko The Owl: Read Aloud by Andréa Williams (external link)
- Trudy’s Healing Stone: Read Aloud by Andréa Williams (external link)
- Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story (external link)
- The Hungry Giant of the Tundra: Read Aloud by Andréa Williams (external link)
- The Eagle Feather: Read Aloud with Andréa Williams (external link)
- Nokum Is My Teacher: Read Aloud with David Bouchard (external link)
- You Hold Me Up: Read Aloud with Author Monique Gray Smith (external link)
- Learning Ojibwe with Numbers and Animals: Read Aloud with Nicole Ineese-Nash & Nyle Miigizi Johnston (external link)
- It’s a Mitig!: Read Aloud with Author-Illustrator Bridget George (external link)
- Beyond Pipelines and Prisons: Infrastructures of Abolition with Ruth Wilson Gilmore & Winona L (external link) aDuke (external link) (Social Justice Week, October 2020)
- Weaponizing Injunctions: How Canada criminalizes Indigenous land defense (external link) (Yellowhead Institute, October 2020)
- The Ransom Economy: What #ShutDownCanada Reveals About Indigenous Land Rights (external link) (Yellowhead Institute, December 2020)
- Hiring Indigenous Faculty and Respecting Indigenous Knowledges (Indigenous Education Council, 2019)
- Debwewin: On the Pedagogy of Truth with Dr. Sheila Cote-Meek (Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, 2019)
- Learning from our grandparents and knowledge keepers (The Decolonization Series, Office of the Vice-President, Equity and Community Inclusion , February 2019)
- Our learners - Part-time, undergraduate and graduate students (The Decolonization Series, Office of the Vice-President, Equity and Community Inclusion , February 2019)
- Those who teach (The Decolonization Series, Office of the Vice-President, Equity and Community Inclusion , March 2019)
- Those who are helpers/staff (The Decolonization Series, Office of the Vice-President, Equity and Community Inclusion , April 2019)
- Pow Wow (September 2019)
- Treaty Education Panel (Indigenous Education Week, September 2019)
- Faculty Conference (May 2018)
- Pow Wow (September 2018)
- Indigenous Art, Culture and Resistance (external link) (Social Justice Week, October 2017)
- Faculty Conference (2016)
- Climate Change and Indigenous Sovereignty (Social Justice Week, November 2016)
- Aware - Are We? Cultural Appropriation in Fashion & Design (Indigenous Education Council and Fashion at The Creative School, 2016)
Why do we acknowledge the land? Aboriginal knowledges at TMU (Soup & Substance, Office of the Vice-President, Equity and Community Inclusion , February 2015)
- Being Aboriginal at TMU (Soup & Substance, Office of the Vice-President, Equity and Community Inclusion , November 2013)
Guest Speaker: Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Justice Murray Sinclair (Indigenous Education Council, September 2011)