A Conversation with Thomas King - November 4, 2019
Date: Monday, November 4, 2019
Time: 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Place:
Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health | Grand Gathering Space
299 Montreal Road, Ottawa ON
This event is now sold out.
Few authors have carved a literary path as brilliantly or as full of wit as Thomas King.
Pair Mr. King’s poignant humour with the kind, sharp interview skills of CBC Radio host, Shelagh Rogers…
Place it in the iconic beauty of the Wabano Centre…
And you, quite simply, have an evening of magic.
The Land is Medicine - November 5, 2019
KEYNOTE 1: Sheila Watt Cloutier
Climate Change, Inuit perspective
Keynote Speaker: Sheila Watt Cloutier
“We must now speak environment, economy, foreign policy, health and human rights in the same breath,” says Sheila Watt-Cloutier.
In this truly globe-spanning talk, Watt-Cloutier provides a clear, meaningful, and comprehensive understanding of the way these issues are interconnected, and what it means for the future of our planet.
Speaking on leadership, she shows how your organization fits into the grand scheme of things, and organizations can fulfill their mandate by understanding how the local connects to the global, and vice versa.
With a focus on solutions, Watt-Cloutier brings the realities of the Arctic―where Inuit today face profound challenges to their environment, their economy, their health and their cultural well-being―to light. The challenges they face are clearly connected to the industries we support, the disposable world we have become, and the non-sustaining policies we create. Because her Inuit culture faces the most extreme challenges of globalization, Watt-Cloutier speaks from firsthand experience, and couples that with her extensive experiences as a global leader.
Drawing upon her ancient culture, and speaking from a position of strength, not victimhood, she helps audiences find common ground. Her Arctic voice–not as far away as we might imagine–enlightens and inspires. With inclusive good will, it bridges some extremely divided gaps around the world.
KEYNOTE 2: Autumn Peltier
Water & Youth leadership
Keynote Speaker: Autumn Peltier
WORKSHOP 1: Sheila Watt Cloutier
Climate Change, Inuit perspective
Presenter: Sheila Watt Cloutier
Join Nobel Peace Prize nominee Sheila Watt-Cloutier as she builds on her keynote address for an in-depth conversation about the land, climate and the path forward.
WORKSHOP 2: Tom Porter
Mother Earth: The Big Medicine
Presenter: Tom Porter
Everything we need comes from Mother Earth, everything we need to sustain us in this life is given to us through her. This workshop will explore our relationship to Mother Earth, the plants and herbs. Pairing spiritual wisdom with practical guidance, Tom will teach participants how approach their relationship to plant medicines including information about various plants, their uses and how we pick them.
WORKSHOP 3: Valerie Courtois
Environmental Leadership
Presenter: Valerie Courtois
Valérie is a member of the Innu community of Mashteuiatsh, and has been the Director of the Indigenous Leadership Initiative since 2003. She is a professional forester who specializes in Indigenous issues, forest ecology and ecosystem-based management and planning. In this workshop Valérie will explore relationships and responsibilities relating to lands and waters, and relate them to a definition of health as an Innu woman. She will highlight various approaches by First Nation partners across what is now known as Canada in building healthy relationships with lands and waters, and fulfilling cultural responsibilities. She will also go in depth on the model of Indigenous Guardians, and explore the Return on Investment of those approaches, specifically relating to health and medicine.
WORKSHOP 1: Autumn Peltier
Water Youth Leadership
Presenter: Autumn Peltier
WORKSHOP 2: Tom Porter
Mother Earth: The Big Medicine
Presenter: Tom Porter
Everything we need comes from Mother Earth, everything we need to sustain us in this life is given to us through her. This workshop will explore our relationship to Mother Earth, the plants and herbs. Pairing spiritual wisdom with practical guidance, Tom will teach participants how approach their relationship to plant medicines including information about various plants, their uses and how we pick them.
WORKSHOP 3: Valerie Courtois
Environmental Leadership
Presenter: Valerie Courtois
The Land is Medicine - November 6, 2019
KEYNOTE 1: Jeannette Armstrong
Traditional Medicines
Keynote Speaker: Jeannette Armstrong
KEYNOTE 2: Deborah McGregor
Indigenous Climate Change Futures
Keynote Speaker: Deborah McGregor
The current climate crisis is not the first time Indigenous peoples have had to face devastating environmental change. Indigenous peoples have been adapting and finding ways to be resilient since time immemorial. How do we continue to self-determine our own future in the face of climate change? What do Indigenous legal orders, knowledge, language and culture have to offer in our struggles for survival?
This keynote will explore traditional Anishinabek teachings that offer guidance in tackling climate change and how we can move toward a self determined climate change future.
WORKSHOP 1: Jan Kahehti:io Longboat
The Indigenous Language of the Universe
Presenter: Jan Kahehti:io Longboat
This workshop will explore the Indigenous concept that our relationship to the land is also our relationship to the upper world. Our plants need the sun to grow, our ceremonies are based on the Skyworld (the seven dancing stars), and our planting is based on the cycles of moon.
Interjecting Mohawk Language and song, traditional herbalist Jan Kahehti:io Longboat will create a picture of the circle of life using teachings of the upper world and lower world – everything it takes to sustain life here on Turtle Island… including learning a traditional seed song. In the words of Jan: “We’ll look up, we’ll look down, and we’ll sing in between!”
WORKSHOP 2: Nena La Caille
Medicines and healing at grassroots level
Presenter: Nena La Caille
WORKSHOP 3: Christi Belcourt
Nimkii Aazhbikong: Lessons from the Land
Presenter: Christi Belcourt
In this intimate session with one of Canada’s most renowned Indigenous artists and activists, you will explore medicines and their teachings, and grow your understanding of governance from the land. Christi will weave this knowledge-sharing with grassroots examples and stories of inspiration from her language camp on the land.
WORKSHOP 1: Deborah McGregor
Climate Change Stories
Presenter: Deborah McGregor
This workshop reflects insights gained from working with Elders and youth on self determined climate change futures. Young people, children and future generations are inheriting the planet in crisis. What do our own stories and teachings tell us about our responsibilities to Mother Earth and all beings and those yet to be born? What responsibilities and obligations do we have in relation to determining our own climate change future?
In this workshop will explore our own climate change stories that come from our ancestors to ensure we could be here today as Indigenous peoples We will explore what kind of knowledge is required to deal with climate change challenges
Join Deborah and her son, Hillary, as they share Anishinabek stories that provide insights and guidance for how we must conduct ourselves as humanity to ensure the survival of “all our relations”.
WORKSHOP 2: Jan Kahehti:io Longboat
The Indigenous Language of the Universe
Presenter: Jan Kahehti:io Longboat
This workshop will explore the Indigenous concept that our relationship to the land is also our relationship to the upper world. Our plants need the sun to grow, our ceremonies are based on the Skyworld (the seven dancing stars), and our planting is based on the cycles of moon.
Interjecting Mohawk Language and song, traditional herbalist Jan Kahehti:io Longboat will create a picture of the circle of life using teachings of the upper world and lower world – everything it takes to sustain life here on Turtle Island… including learning a traditional seed song. In the words of Jan: “We’ll look up, we’ll look down, and we’ll sing in between!”
WORKSHOP 3: Nena La Caille
Medicines and healing at grassroots level
Presenter: Nena La Caille
