Intercollegiate Ped Days began on Jan. 12 with a beautiful welcome by °®¶¹´«Ã½College Board of Governors member and McGill professor Alex McComber. His welcome, which was in English and Kanien’kéha, was to Mother Earth and aimed to remind us of how we are all tied together and how we should be thankful for all…
For anyone who would like to get involved in Beyond Orange Shirt Day at Dawson, First Peoples’ Centre Coordinator Tiawenti:non Canadian and other staff members will be hosting an open meeting to begin planning for First Peoples’ Week 2022.
First Peoples’ Week is an annual celebration of Indigenous knowledges and cultures on campus. This year it will take place from Monday, March 28 to Friday, April 1. The first planning meeting will be in the Rose Lounge (7C.5) at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2021.
As a part of the °®¶¹´«Ã½College Peace Centre's commitment to decolonization and Indigenization, we will continue to offer organizational and financial support to faculty to host an Indigenous Elder to facilitate a Blanket Exercise in their classroom in the Winter 2022 semester. The Blanket Exercise is an interactive experiential exercise which enables students to understand Indigenous history on Turtle Island (A’nowara’ko:wa) as well as the legacy of colonization.
For more information or to host this activity (or another decolonization or Indigenization initiative) in your class, please contact Diana Rice: drice@dawsoncollege.qc.ca.
A committee at °®¶¹´«Ã½has been hard at work to ensure that °®¶¹´«Ã½does more than just mark Sept. 30.
Click Read More for a report about Beyond Orange Shirt Day from the committee.
On Oct. 30, °®¶¹´«Ã½College students in Jonathan Egan’s Outdoor Education Activities course were fortunate to have Kanien’kehà ’ka Elder and Knowledge Keeper Niioie:ren Patton of Kahnawà :ke speak to them out on the land. Surrounded by the beautiful trees and varied habitats of ÃŽle Saint-Bernard near Kahnawà :ke, students used old logs and moist ground as their…
Pat Romano (Faculty, Humanities) and Kim Simard (Faculty, Cinema | Communications) are beginning to implement the next phase of their Resist Violence project, which has been shared with administrators and educators across Canada and with faculty and professionals at Dawson’s Ped Days. The Creative Collective for Change is the name of a two-year project that…
°®¶¹´«Ã½students and employees will experience the first  at °®¶¹´«Ã½College on Thursday, Sept. 30.
Click Read More for the homepage news story, which contains a link to all the programming and resources.
All events and resources about Orange Shirt Day are updated and housed here: /campus-life-leadership/orange-t-shirt-day-events/ Community Artwork: :Using the design of alumnae Wakenhnhiióhstha Montour, °®¶¹´«Ã½College students will be invited to contribute to a collective community artwork honouring the survivors and victims of the residential school system. Students will be able to add their tile throughout…
In July, Michelle E. Smith (Faculty, Cinema l Communications) was named an Indigenous Vanier Scholar of McGill University.
Michelle's reaction to the news: "I was very excited, very surprised, extremely happy; when I read the acceptance letter my heart was beating so fast it felt like it was jumping out of my chest. I am really happy that the Vanier committee got behind me and my research."
That quote comes from the McGill Reporter. Click Read More to read the whole story.
(Photo credit: McGill University)Â
Dawson’s flags were lowered to half-mast on Monday morning to honour the 215 children who lost their lives at the Kamloops Indian Residential School and their families, and the countless others who never returned home from residential schools across Canada. The flags will remain at half-mast for 215 hours in total for each life lost.
Last Modified: January 19, 2022
