Free bannock and chili dinner and community talk: Decolonizing Healing

Wahkotownina é osihtáhk / Creating Relationships

Indigenous knowledge sharing between the University of Waikato, New Zealand, and the University of Saskatchewan

Decolonizing Healing: Indigenous approaches, family health and Indigenous knowledge-based approaches to HIV/STI prevention

Date: Aug. 30, 2018

Location: Station 20 West

Sponsored by the Department of Indigenous Studies, College of Arts and Science, University of Saskatchewan

Free and open to the public

This community talk, featuring Dr. Linda Tuhiwai Smith and Alison Green from the University of Waikato, will focus on Maori Indigenous peoples' decolonizing approaches to healing from historical trauma amidst ongoing trauma and stressors. Professor Michelle Johnson-Jennings, from the Department of Indigenous Studies at the University of Saskatchewan, will be the discussant.

6 p.m. - 7 p.m.: Community chili and bannock dinner

7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.: Talk by Professor Linda Smith and Alison Green

8:30 p.m. - 8:45 p.m.: Q&A session

8:45 p.m. - 9 p.m.: Closing

This event will be livestreamed: https://artsandscience.usask.ca/waikato