Feb 18, 2020 Holiday Inn 7:00 – 8:30pm Registration and Reception

Feb 19, 2020 Enwayaang Building 6:45 – 7:30 Sunrise Ceremony 8:30 Opening Ceremony and Keynote (Sylvia Maracle): Room 114 10:30 Break 10:45 Concurrent Sessions A 12:30 Lunch: The Robinson Dining Hall 2:00 Concurrent Sessions B 3:45 Break 4:00 – 4:15 Closing: Room 114

Feb 20, 2020 Enwayaang Building 8:30 Keynote (David Newhouse): Room 114 9:30 Concurrent Sessions C 11:30 Lunch: The Robinson Dining Hall 1:00 Concurrent Sessions D 2:30 Break 3:00 Concurrent Sessions E 4:30 Break 4:45 – 5:00 Closing: Room 114 5:30 Dinner / Banquet: The Robinson Dining Hall 7:30 – 9:00 Social: Nozhem: First Peoples Performance Space

Feb 21, 2020 Enwayaang Building 8:30 Day Opening / Welcome: Room 114 9:00 Concurrent Sessions F 10:30 – 12:00 Keynote (Drew Hayden Taylor) and Closing: Room 114

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

A1 (Rm 117) SESSIONS A — Wed Feb 19, 2020 10:45 – 12:30:

Conceptual Shifts in Urban Indigenous Research — Magda Smolewski, Sylvia Maracle, Julian Robbins and Shane Camastro

Urban Indigenous Proud (Film Screening + Discussion) — Julian Robbins, Jade Haguenin, Jennifer Dockstader, Jamie Whitecrow, Kristi Sinclair

A2 (Rm 115): The Indigenous Reconciliation Program — Marlene Orr

The Indigenous Incarcerated Parents to Reintegration Initiative — Darlene Shackelly

The Indigenous Reintegration and Healing Program — Aleida Tweten

A3 (Rm 103): Community-School Partnerships for Language Revitalizations in Urban Contexts — Lindsay Morcom

2 CINSA 2020 - Trent University Program Language and Refusal in Kitigan Zibi: Speaking English While Being Anishinabe in Quebec — Shady Hafez

Using an Interactive Website of Indigenous Languages and their Communities to Explore a Medicine Wheel Approach within Community-based Language Development — Mary Jane Norris

Skookum Lab: Reducing Urban Indigenous Child Poverty Through Social A4 (Rm 105): Innovation — Sheldon Tetreault

Traditional Knowledge, Future Healing: Cultural Connection and Healing in Indigenous Homelessness — Mikaela D. Gabriel

SESSIONS B — Wed Feb 19, 2020 2:00 – 3:45:

Creation Stories: creating strong families through our stories — Neil Forbes and B1 (Rm 117): Greg McKenna

Pathways to Mino Biimadiziwin in the City: A Profile of Urban Aboriginal Economic Success in Sudbury — Kevin Fitzmaurice and Suzanne Shawbonquit

Language, Migration, Education and Self- Determination: Crafting Indigenous B2 (Rm 115): Present and Future — Veronique Audet, Maria C. Manzano Munguia, Liliana Juarez Palomino, Sipi Flamand, Benoit Ethier, Natalie Owl

The Impacts of Environmental Dis-possession on Indigenous Health and Identity B3 (Rm103): — S. Kaitlyn Patterson

Decolonizing Environmental Studies Using Indigenous Knowledges and Pedagogies — Amy Shawanda and Barbara Wall

The Local and Traditional Knowledge of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation Regarding the Status of Ciscoes — Alexander Duncan

Let’s Heal Each other: Walking with our Children and Youth B4 (Rm105): Missy Knott, Crystal Hebert, Crystal Scrimshaw, Jolene Moriarty, Nimkii Osawamick, Liz Osawamick

SESSIONS C — Thursday February 20, 2020 9:30 – 11:30

A ‘Community- First ‘Approach to Amplifying Indigenous Voices and Developing C1 (Rm 117): Learning Resources: The National Centre for Collaboration in Indigenous Education —Stanley Henry, Gabriel Maracle, Claire Mooney, Don McCaskill

Indigenous Intellectual History: Needs, Challenges and Possibilities C2 (Rm 115): David Newhouse, Cecil Chabot, Ross Hoffman, Kevin Fitzmaurice

Indigenous Self-Governance, Metis Education and Employment Programming in C3 (Rm 103): — Metis Nation of Ontario Program Trent University - CINSA 2020 3 C4 (Rm 105): Advancing Indigenous Education in the Post-Secondary Sector in Ontario — Erica McCloskey

A Restoration Story: Our Earth’s and Indigenous Peoples’ Resurgence — Helena Mauti

Meaningful Indigenous community-corporate ally business relationships: A discussion of wise practices in Indigenous consultation with Southern Ontario’s renewable energy sector —Danielle K. Harris and Asaf Zohar

C5 (Rm 106): Iyiniw tapwewin ekwa kiskeyitamowin (nehiyaw Truth and Knowing) — Ralph Bodor and Kristina Kopp

SESSIONS D — Thursday February 20, 2020 1:00 – 2:30

D1 (Rm 117): Storying Indigenous Futures Through Dance and Film: Researching Red Card — Cara Mumford, Jenn Cole

D2 (Rm 115): Rebuilding the Circle- A Continuum of Caring /strengthening support for Social Reintegration in Indigenous Community Corrections with Waseya Family Therapy Brian Sarwer-Foner

A pilot program and research study implementing: Elder led healing programs in Correctional Service of Canada Community Correctional Centres in Ontario Region — Al Brant, Elaine Endenawas, Robin Quantick

Navigator-Advocates: Integrated Supports for Justice-Involved Indigenous Youth and Adults with FASD — Dr. Michelle Stewart

D3 (Rm 103): Appropriation, Collaboration, and Reconciliation in Film — James Cullingham

Home Land: The Representation of Spaces and Places in Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves and Vermette’s The Break — Kelly Harrison

“I will be this old woman who spits in the mouths of newborns” The Future as Seen by J.D. Kurtness — Sylvie Berard

D4 (Rm 105): Baawaajige: Exploring Dreams as Academic References — Amy Shawanda

It Flows from the Heart: Bodwewaadmii Kwewag Nibi Gikendaaswin — Barbara Wall

Mamwi Gidaanjitoomin: We Change it Together — Angela Mashford-Pringle and Andrea Bowra

D5 (Rm 106): Making the ‘Invisible’, Visible: Lessons from the Commission on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women — Thomas Fleming

Three-Stranded Basket Approach — Indigenous Innovation Initiative

4 CINSA 2020 - Trent University Program SESSIONS E — Thursday February 20, 2020 3:00 – 4:30

Digging Up Stories: Anishinabekwe Stories of Ancestors, Land and Growing Old — E1 (Rm 117): Nadine Changfoot, Angela Connors, Anne Taylor and Alice Olsen Williams

For the Long Haul: Alliances for Indigenous Justice — Lynne Davis, Jeff Denis, Chris E2 (Rm 115): Hiller, Dawn Lavell-Harvard

Our Histories, Our Stories —Neil Forbes, Christopher Sheppard, Verle Harrop, Kevin E3 (Rm 105): Fitzmaurice, Crystal Osawamick

Urban Indigenous Governance Research Project: Beyond the Community of E4 (Rm 106): Interest Model — David Newhouse and Gabriel Maracle

Section 10 First Nation Membership: Critical reflections from the grassroots — Damien Lee

Restoring Capacity for Future Generations — Laurie Sherry-Kirk

SESSIONS F —Friday February 21, 2020 9:00 – 10:30

Let’s Talk Together: Indigenous Arts and Social Sciences Post-Secondary Education F1 (Rm 117): for the Next Seven Generations — Joeann Argue and Nancy Stevens

Making Anishinabe Crafts: A young girl’s personal experiences — Shirley Williams

Community-driven Research: the UAKN Atlantic’s findings, processes, impacts F2 (Rm 115): and failures — Verle Harrop, Chris Sheppard and Patsy McKinney

The Osoyoos Indian Band in south-central BC: Supporting Successful F3 (Rm 105): Reintegration — Chief Clarence Louie, Brenda Baptiste, Roger Hall, Kix Hall, Katrina Baptiste, Robert Stelkia

Your Ancestors Recognized My Ancestors (Performance Piece) — Gracelynn Chung- F4 (Nozhem): Yan Lau First Peoples Performance Space

Program Trent University - CINSA 2020 5 FEBRUARY 18 Chief Emily Whetung grew up in Curve Lake and left only to pursue a higher education at Trent University and Osgoode Hall Law School. She married a Chief Emily Whetung Mohawk from Wahta and convinced him to build a life here on the Chemong Chief of Curve Lake side of Curve Lake. She returned to Curve Lake 8 years ago when she secured a First Nation position to practice Real Estate Law in Peterborough and started to work on the next generation of Whetungs, raising two lovely little boys ages 3 and 5. Lorenzo and Jodi Whetung are her parents. Murray Whetung is Lorenzo’s father and Daniel Whetung was Murray’s father. Always proud to be an Anishnaabe Kwe from Curve Lake, Emily looks forward to leading our Community in the coming years. Her door is always open, but O’Gimaa is a busy job and you might want to make an appointment, so you don’t have to wait!

FEBRUARY 19 Sylvia Maracle is a Mohawk from Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory. Maracle has worked in all levels of education throughout her 41 years as Executive Director Sylvia Maracle of the Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres. Maracle has been Executive Director of the the founding chair of the original Ontario Aboriginal Education Council, dealing Ontario Federation with post-secondary institutions. Maracle was a founding member of the Trent of Indigenous University Indigenous PhD program. Maracle holds Doctor of Laws Degrees Friendship Centres from the University of ; York University; Trent University and Queen’s University.

FEBRUARY 19 Diane completed her undergrad degree at McMaster University in Hamilton before moving to Peterborough to complete her Master’s Degree in Canadian and Mayor Diane Therrien Indigenous Studies at Trent University. Mayor of the She has experience in the private, public, and non-profit sectors, and has worked City of Peterborough for the former Minister of Aboriginal Affairs, the Peterborough Poverty Reduction Network, and Trent University. Diane was elected to city council in 2014, and in 2018 was elected mayor of Peterborough.

FEBRUARY 19 Christopher Sheppard is Inuk, a beneficiary of the Nunatsiavut Government born in Happy Valley Goose Bay and raised in the northern Inuit community of Christopher Sheppard Postville, Nunatsiavut. President of the In 2004 he made the move from Postville to St. John’s, NL, where he became National Association of actively involved in the urban Indigenous community. His long-standing Friendship Centres commitment to community service has included representing urban Indigenous youth in the Atlantic region; working in various roles at the First Light St. John’s Friendship Centre in St. John’s, NL; serving as a Commissioner to the Human Rights Commission of Newfoundland and Labrador and being elected to the Youth Executive of the National Association of Friendship Centres’ (NAFC) for the first time in 2008. In 2016, he was re-elected Vice-President of the NAFC for a second term which was followed by his election as President in 2017. Chris recently made the move from St. John’s, NL to Saskatoon, SK with his husband Jacob where he is the Program Director for the Aboriginal Friendship Centres of Saskatchewan (AFCS).

6 CINSA 2020 - Trent University CINSA Guest Speakers Jocelyn Formsma is the Executive Director of the National Association of FEBRUARY 19 Friendship Centres (NAFC). Ms. Formsma is a member of the Moose Cree First Nation in Northern Ontario. She holds an Honours Bachelor of Social Sciences and Jocelyn Formsma a Juris Doctorate from the University of . Ms. Formsma has over 15 years Executive Director of work and volunteer experience building strong relationships and advocacy on of The National Association behalf of Indigenous peoples. She is called to the Bar of Ontario and has worked of Friendship Centres as a lawyer for a First Nations owned law firm. Prior to this, she worked for numerous national Aboriginal organizations and First Nations organizations. In addition, Ms. Formsma serves as the Chairperson of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, Board Member of the National Indian Child Welfare Association, Founder of the Morningstar Fund and is an Advisor to the Ontario Indigenous Youth Partnership Project. As Executive Director, Ms. Formsma brings her legal training and passion for Access to Justice to her work with Indigenous peoples in urban environments and the Friendship Centre Movement towards innovative, positive and effective systemic change for Indigenous peoples.

David Newhouse is Onondaga from the Six Nations of the Grand River community FEBRUARY 20 near , Ontario. He is Professor of Indigenous Studies at Trent University in the Chanie Wenjack School for Indigenous Studies and Professor of Business David Roy Newhouse Administration in the School of Business Administration. He has been Chair of the Professor and Chair of Department of Indigenous Studies, now the Chanie Wenjack School for Indigenous Indigenous Studies, Studies, since 1993. Trent University His research interests focus on the emergence of modern Indigenous society, focusing on emerging Indigenous communities. He also teaches 1600 students per year in two first year courses in Indigenous Studies. He was awarded the Trent University Teaching Award for Educational Leadership and Innovation in 2016. Locally, he served on the board of directors for the Nogojawong Friendship Centre in Peterborough and is the Co-Chair of the Trent Indigenous Education Council. He is the Co-chair of the SSHRC Indigenous Advisory Circle and the Science Officer for the CIHR Indigenous Peoples Health Research competitions.

During the last thirty years of his career, Drew Hayden Taylor has done many FEBRUARY 21 things, most of which he is proud of. An Ojibway from the Curve Lake First Nations in Ontario, he has worn many hats in his literary career, from performing Drew Hayden Taylor stand-up comedy at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., to being Artistic Award-Winning Playwright, Director of Canada’s premiere Native theatre company, Native Earth Performing Author, Columnist, Arts. He has been an award-winning playwright, a journalist/columnist Film Maker (appearing regularly in several Canadian newspapers and magazines), short- and Lecturer story writer, novelist, television scriptwriter, and has worked on numerous documentaries exploring the Native experience. Most notably as a filmmaker, he wrote and directed REDSKINS, TRICKSTERS AND PUPPY STEW, a documentary on Native humour for the National Film Board of Canada, and for CBC, co-created SEARCHING FOR WINNITOU, an exploration of Germany’s fascination with North American Indigenous culture.

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