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Indigenous Student Orientation
Indigenous Student Orientation
First Nations House organizes an orientation session and open house for new students at the beginning of each academic year. We invite you come and learn about the supports that we offer. Meet new people, enjoy a cup of coffee and find out how you can get involved in the Indigenous [...]
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Speaking Our Truths: The Journey Towards Reconciliation Part 1 (Staff & Faculty Training)
Speaking Our Truths: The Journey Towards Reconciliation Part 1 (Staff & Faculty Training)
U of T Indigenous Training This is a Virtual Session. Instructions will be provided closer to the day of class. Culture is expressed in the worldviews of peoples from different backgrounds, lived experiences and histories. It is fostered through ones’ unique identification with ones’ values, beliefs, languages, and traditions. For [...]
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Speaking Our Truths: The Journey Towards Reconciliation Part 2 (Staff & Faculty Training)
Speaking Our Truths: The Journey Towards Reconciliation Part 2 (Staff & Faculty Training)
U of T Indigenous Training This is a Virtual Session. Instructions will be provided closer to the day of class. Culture is expressed in the worldviews of peoples from different backgrounds, lived experiences and histories. It is fostered through ones’ unique identification with ones’ values, beliefs, languages, and traditions. For [...]
The Moccasin Project
The Moccasin Project
Come join our Moccasin project with our Indigenous community partner in response to the call to action #1. Participants will be making moccasins for Indigenous children in care, while learning about Aboriginal Peoples/families and the devastating realities of Indigenous child apprehension rates in Canada. Take Action today by helping create [...]
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ON NEIHR Fall Gathering Indigenous Health Policy: Rethinking with Spirit
WBIIH Indigenizing Health Symposium/ ON NEIHR Fall Gathering Indigenous Health Policy: Rethinking with Spirit The ON NEIHR 2022 Indigenizing Health Fall Gathering’s objective is to share knowledges and conversations about Indigenous health policy. This year’s symposium takes place over two days and includes keynote speakers, a panel, student posters, and [...]
U of T Indigenous Bookclub
U of T Indigenous Bookclub
Join us for Part 1 of the U of T Indigenous Book Club where we will learn about books, podcasts, & other media by Indigenous peoples of Canada. The event will include a sharing circle where participants will select 3 items to read or listen to by Wednesday, November 9th, 2022. Free [...]
Exploring Drumming & Music as Home
Exploring Drumming & Music as Home
As part of Truth & Reconciliation Week we will be celebrating the revitalization of community music and cultural drumming by featuring local & global communities in the GTA that have cultural drumming and music as a key piece of their identity. We want you to participate in a space that [...]
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Screening of Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
Screening of Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
Join us at U of T Scarborough as we celebrate Truth and Reconciliation Week with a screening of Rumble: the Indians Who Rocked the World. This featured documentary covers the role of Native Americans in popular music history that shaped the soundtracks of our time. This event is on Thursday, [...]
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Orange Shirt Day 2022
Orange Shirt Day 2022
Honour the experiences of residential school survivors by joining a University-wide event to recognize Orange Shirt Day and National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Students, librarians, faculty and staff may register to attend this event in-person or watch the livestream.
Reopening Wounds or Healing Words? Apologies and Residential Schools
Reopening Wounds or Healing Words? Apologies and Residential Schools
In 2022, the Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury came to Canada to engage with Indigenous communities and Residential School Survivors on how the respective churches that each represents, the Roman Catholic and Anglican, were instrumental in a system that inflicted “spiritual, cultural, emotional, physical, and sexual abuse of First [...]