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‘Grounding yourself’: Learn about the history of resistance to European colonization and the on-going resiliency of the Kanien’kehá:ka nation/Haudenosaunee Confederacy


Date & time
Thursday, August 31, 2023
12 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.

Registration is closed

Speaker(s)

Kanen’tó:kon Hemlock, Ph.D., Kanien’kehá:ka from the local Kanien’kehá:ka community of Kahnawake

Cost

This event is free

Where

Online

About the workshop

The aim of this workshop is to introduce faculty to the history of interactions between Indigenous Peoples and Europeans, and the long-term impacts it has had on Indigenous cultures and societies. Through the lens of the Kanien’kehá:ka/Haudenosaunee Confederacy, this session will provide an overview of Indigenous societies prior to contact and move its way into the 20th century.

Questions to be examined

  • How did the Kanien’kehá:ka/Haudenosaunee Peoples resist and survive the impacts of colonization and its on-going efforts at assimilation today?
  • What strategies are Kanien’kehá:ka /Haudenosaunee Peoples using to preserve and exist as distinct Indigenous Peoples today?

Format: Workshop
Participants: Max 50 – Concordia faculty

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