Pls Rt: Today, Onigaming planned to meet with Sr Officials from Patty Hajdu Indigenous Services Canada regarding the numerous young deaths in our families & our desperate request for a Youth Crisis Centre. They sent junior note-takers to the meeting. Canada does not care. 💔

Only 3 more days to register!

Orange Shirt Day September 30th always hits hard, but even harder since early 2020 when I became a foster parent for Indigenous children. Since then I have had five beautiful kids come through my home and this is what I can tell you … 🧵 /1

Support letters due: 7 PhD’s to examine: 2 Promotions files to read: 2 Almost exclusively of Indigenous scholars. This is happy work! ⭐️⭐️

Come work with us at MAC! Indigenous Studies is currently hiring a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor! tinyurl.com/puyjbu5y

NEW PAPER 🚨 Just in time for Indigenous Peoples Day & ERAS season. Indigenous physicians are highly underrepresented. We found it will take over 100 years to close the gap if current matriculation remains stable ‼️ We propose systemic solutions 💡 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Moon of the Turning Leaves is officially out in the world today! Big thanks to readers of the first book who encouraged me to write a sequel, to Denise Bukowski for advocating for the story, to @FAMeier for his brilliant editing expertise, and to Random House Canada for giving it a home!

When I was a kid, the only Indigenous oriented books in the school library were ABOUT us, not by us. But in the last month alone I've read amazing new books by Waubgeshig Rice and Alicia Elliott - AND THEN SHE FELL out now! while not seeing as many non-Native books ABOUT us. Wonder what the next 50 years will bring.

BREAKING: ＃UWOFA has served and filed a notice of application for judicial review on ＃Brescia’s merger with ＃WesternU, asking the court to review the decision and stop the integration process. ＃ldnont westerngazette.ca/news/uwofa-fil…

Toronto! I'm on my way there for this event tomorrow night at the Reference Library. Rosanna Deerchild and the Unreserved team will be there to record our chat for CBC Radio! You can join us for free by registering below. I'm stoked!

Excited to bring Indigenous research perspectives and a few stories to this webinar! Thank you for the invite ✨

Long overdue. Justice for Grassy. 🙌🏽 cbc.ca/news/canada/th…

Our new book “Because this land is who we are: Indigenous practices of environmental repossession” is out June 27! It will be available in print and open access through Bloomsbury Books UK bloomsbury.com/uk/because-thi…

A Nunavut judge has sentenced a Toronto woman to three years in prison in a case of Inuit identity fraud. Karima Manji, who is not Indigenous, pleaded guilty to one count of fraud over $5,000, after her twin daughters used fake Inuit status to receive benefits from two

Highly recommended to anyone else healing from institutional racism: “Scholars of color are often pushed out of traditional disciplinary departments, forced through bullying, harassment, & hostile work environments… [R]aising problems becomes translated into being the problem.”

The CIHR’s Institute for Indigenous Peoples’ Health has a new Scientific Director. Congrats to Dr. Chelsea Gabel! Let’s get back on track with our healing work. ✨ cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/9111.html CIHR

"It's not just about feeding people, but also reconnecting them with their ancestral knowledge and practices." #WesternU research team partners with SOAHAC and local knowledge keepers to cultivate #Indigenous food sovereignty in #LdnOnt. @WesternuSociSci news.westernu.ca/2024/10/wester…

Yes niawenkó:wa Ashsail and all those who came out to the book launch Skén:nen And to Between the Lines for their generous support always Thanks Sean for your brilliant support and words as always ❤️

Join us December 4th for the launch of our book at the Wampum Learning Lodge. Also available in open access. 🫶🏽 bloomsbury.com/ca/because-thi…