Lets not forget the communities currently fighting their land struggles during Indigenous Sovereignty Week. The Unist’ot’en and the Likhts’amisyu clans of the Wet’suwet’en Nation have set up a roadblock evicting the Pacific Trails Pipeline drillers and their equipment from their territories. And the Tsilhqot'in are in court seeking an injunction to halt drilling and road building for the replacement Taseko mining project they defeated in environmental assessments last year. And many many more, quietly defending their way of life across Turtle Island.
Tuesday – November 22nd, 2011
Telus Room 219, U of A
Film Screening and Panel: Club Native by Tracey Deer
6pm – 9pm
In Club Native, Deer looks deeply into the history and present-day reality of Aboriginal identity. With moving stories from a range of characters from her Kahnawake Reserve she reveals the divisive legacy of “blood quantum” ideals, snobby attitudes and outright racism.
Wednesday – November 23rd, 2011
Occupy Edmonton (102 St and Jasper Ave)
** Urgent NOTICE: If Occupy Edmonton is evicted this evening. We will unfortunately have to move the event to:
9425 109A Avenue, Edmonton Boys & Girls Club
History of Corporate/ Economic Interests and Involvement in the colonization of Turtle Island
6pm – 8pm
Indigenous peoples in Canada, the United States and throughout the Americas hold valuable land and water resources that have long been exploited by the provincial, state and federal governments and by corporations trying to meet the energy needs of an industrialized world.
Thursday – November 24th, 2011
Education Building South 113, U of A
Authors of Our Own Stories: The Fiction of Anti-Racism Experts
4:30pm – 6pm
This discussion is a conscientious and true analysis of anti-racism work within the non-racialized, non-profit sector, based on the lived experiences of racialized women. Panel: Junetta Jamerson, Jacqueline Fayant, and Tina Bernard.
Friday – November 25th, 2011
9702 111 Ave. NW - Gallery Space of HIV Edmonton
Warriors Wisdom! Music, Poetry and Dance for Indigenous Rights and Sovereignty
7pm – 10pm
If you are an artist, performer or dancer and would like to celebrate Warrior Wisdom, this is a chance to showcase your talent and show your support.
you can check out complete event info on their website : edmontonisw.wordpress.com
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Indigenous Sovereignty Week in Toronto started last Monday but due to the homecoming of the Canadian Aboriginal Festival Pow Wow they will be hosting events up until their closing circle on Sunday November, 27.
Friday - November 18, 2011
Room 2215, OISE. 252 Bloor Street W, at Bedford exit of St. George subway
Celebrating Community Victories - Standing up to the Harper Threat
7pm – 9pm
Panel organized by: Defenders of the Land supporters featuring Russell Diabo, Pamela Palmater, and Randy Kapashesit. Chaired by Sylvia Plain. Other speakers TBA.
Tuesday- November 22, 2011
York University, Room 242, York Lanes
Deconstructing Identity Barriers: Aboriginal Women’s Sharing Circle
12:00-3:00 pm
Our sharing circle seeks to bring forth personal experiences of identity barriers, as Aboriginal women, by articulating our opinions in a group setting, addressing the fear of further marginalization and by critically challenging the public value of the “expert’s” perspective over our own. Facilitated by Erin Konsmo.
Ryerson Student Centre (55 Gould St.) room: SCC 115
KI Speak About Their Struggle to Protect Scared Areas From Mining Exploration
7:00 p.m.
Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) Chief Donny Morris and John Cutfeet, Spokesperson, will be speaking on their current struggle against further mining encroachment into their traditional territories. Join us in this rare opportunity to hear directly from KI leaders about their struggle to control and care for their Homeland.
Wednesday- November 23, 2011
University of Toronto Multi-Faith Centre
Criminalization of Indigenous Peoples
7pm – 9pm
Christa Big Canoe: Speaking on the impacts of Harper's Omnibus crime bill on Indigenous peoples in Canada. Jules Koostachin, Elisabeth Fry: speaking on the over-incarceration and criminalization of Indigenous women and girls
Thursday - November 24, 2011
Native Women’s Resource Centre, 191 Gerrard Street East
Panel : The Silence is Broken: Now What?
6:30pm – 9pm
Where should the energy of groups like No More Silence be focused? How do we best continue to raise awareness around the disappearance of Indigenous women and create conditions that stop the violence? With Lee Maracle, Darlene Ritchie, Wanda Whitebird, and Faith Nolan.
Friday - Novmber 25, 2011
Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham Street
Curated artwork and Discussion: A Colonial Contagion
6:00pm - 9:00pm
This event will present- an overview of the context of the Indigenous arts of the Americas, to exemplify the similarities amongst colonial, capitalist, imperial, neo-liberal strategies, that have acted as a type of “disease” amongst our communities.
Some of the artists/activists works presented; Terrance Houle, Rebecca Belmore, Robert Houle, Edgar Heap of Birds, Alfred YoungMan, Joanne Cardinal Schubert, Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, James Luna, Guillermo Gomez Pena, Diego Rivera, Jacques Louis David, John Gast, Thomas Cole and Edward Curtis.
Presentations will be followed with a recorded discussion begging the questions: What is the dream? What is the action? Past successes, present needs and future strategies. Presenters / Facilitation-Tannis Nielsen and Zainab Amadahy
Saturday - November 26, 2011
Native Canadian Centre of Toronto
Muskrat Magazine Launch: The Food Issue
6:00pm - 8:30pm
In the spirit of community building and honouring our relationship to land and sustenance we invite you to feast with us! BRING a "Traditional" dish to share. Special Guests Include: Elder: Jan Longboat; Community leader and teacher: Sylvia Maracle; Performance artist: Cheryl L’Hirondelle; Entertainer: Glen Gould; Poet: Giles Benaway and...a sneak peak of MUSKRAT's upcoming FOOD issue!
Sunday - November 27, 2011
Location and time will be announced at ISW events.
Closing Circle
Advising elder: Lee Maracle
Organizing committee: Zainab Amadahy, Mike Barber, Andrea Bastien, Craig Fortier, Audrey Huntley, Tannis Nielsen, Shiri Pasternak, Hannah Peck, Corvin Russell, Crystal Sinclair, Aman Sium, Rebeka Tabobondung
You can check out full event info at defendersoftheland.org/toronto
