Meshkwajisewin: Paradigm Shift

This lecture is presented by the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, with support from the Role Model Speaker Fund and the College of Arts and Science

Date: Friday, April 8, 2022
Time: 2:30 pm
Location: Room 124, Archaeology Building, University of Saskatchewan
Speaker: Dr. Maureen Matthews (D. Phil), Curator of Cultural Anthropology, The Manitoba Museum

Speaker's Bio 
Dr. Maureen Matthews, Curator of Cultural Anthropology, joined The Manitoba Museum staff in November 2011. She is a CBC Radio documentary maker and has received four awards for investigative journalism from the Canadian Association of Journalists for her work for IDEAS on Cree and Ojibwe ideas about the world. Her documentaries include Fair Wind’s Drum (1993), Thunderbirds (1995), Memegwesiwag (2007) and Wihtigo: Cree Ideas about Cannibals (2010) and she also received a Manitoba Human Rights award for Isinamowin: The White Man’s Indian (1990), a documentary about the harmful consequences of stereotypes about Aboriginal people. She is the author of Naamiwan's Drum: The Story of a Contested Repatriation of Anishinaabe Artefacts (University of Toronto Press, 2016). Matthews completed a D. Phil. in social and cultural anthropology (2010) at the University of Oxford with a thesis on the attribution of animacy and agency to museum artefacts from a joint Ojibwe and anthropological theoretical perspective. (source: The Manitoba Museum)

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