Monthly Newsletter - August 2017

• Skins 5.0 Kanaeokana: IDLG member Jason Lewis and team in Hawai'i 
• 'True expression of all of us' in Dance of Reconciliation: Former IDLG member Emilee Gilpin published in the Tyee
• Reaching out to local Indigenous community: IDLG advertisement in Kahnawa:ke Phone Directory
• Links to upcoming events in and around Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyaang/Montreal

Skins 5.0 Kanaeokana: IDLG member Jason Lewis and team in Hawai'i

Here is an excerpt from the team's first message from Hawai'i:

Aloha from the beautiful island of Oahu.
The Skins 5.0 Kanaeokana workshop on Aboriginal storytelling and video game design in Hālau ‘Īnana in Honolulu, will be an action-packed learning adventure that will take place 17^th  July – 4^th  August, 2017.
Our team along with the fifteen participants have begun our adventure with a beautiful mo’olelo (story telling) event at Papahana Kuaola on their reclaimed territory nestled in the valley below majestic mountains. Our two hosts, Kḗhaunani  Abad Kealaiwikuamo’o and Keoni, welcomed everyone with pule kinohi hu (sharing) of a traditional Hawaiian ceremonial circle to build ho’olauna (becoming  at ease with each other). Each of our team members were delighted and honored to receive a lei.

Read more at the Skins 5.0 - Kanaeokana website. 



'True expression of all of us' in Dance of Reconciliation: Former IDLG member Emilee Gilpin published in the Tyee

Former IDLG member Emilee Gilpin is “interning with the Tyee, as part of the Journalist for Human Rights Emerging Indigenous Intern program … Emilee recently completed a graduate diploma in Journalism at Concordia University”, and “is specifically interested in disrupting the ways stories about First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples are told in the media and is working on a series that showcases urbanized Indigenous women at the front-lines of their own unique battles”
Read more about Emilee’s work at the Tyee on her Biography page.

Check out some of her recent articles:
For this Haida Speaker, A call to Learn and a Call to Teach (28 July, 2017)

At ‘BigHeart Bannock,’ Resilience and Resistance in Food Made Well (11 July, 2017)

‘True Expression of All of Us’ in Dance of Reconciliation (6 July, 2017)



Reaching out to local Indigenous community: IDLG advertisement in Kahnawa:ke Phone Directory

In an effort to connect with the nearby Kanien'keha:ka (Mohawk) community, the IDLG is advertising in the local telephone directory.  The image below will appear in the next edition of the Eastern Door's bi-annual publication.  We are always looking for new ways to make Concordia more accessible to Indigenous peoples.  If you have any ideas about how we can do this, please share them with us.