English Pecha Kucha Period 2

all 30 people

Lillian Dyck

Indig/Chinese senator

First indig woman with PhD in science

Cree mom chinese dad

Brandi Morin

Cree/Iroquois/French Journalist

Arrested in jan 2024 for obstruction while covering police raid on indig encampment

Elijah Harper

First Indig MLA in Manitoba

Prevented Meech Lake Accord bc indig weren’t being consulted

Calvin Murray Sinclair

First Indig judge Manitoba, appointed to highest kings bench

Chief commissioner of TRC

Created 94 TRC

Jody Wilson Raybould

First Indig Minister of Justice and Attorney General

Lost positions opposing Trudeau in SNC-Lavalin

Has been lawyer, author, politician, public speaker

Father was hereditary chief 

Jeanette Armstrong

Restore Syilx culture 

Sustainability, community, after res schools, assimilation and smallpox

Louie Kamookak

Found Sir John Franklin’s lost expedition

Took Inuit youth to explore arctic

Royal Canadian geographic society gives medal in his name

Kateri Tekakwitha

Partially blind after smallpox

Converted to Christianity 

Refused marriage for devotion to christ 

Lee Maracle 

Writer and activist that inspired future generations

Women empowerment and post-colonialism

Traditional indig myths with modern narratives

Autumn Peltier

Water rights activist from Wiikwemkoong

Chief water commissioner of her nation at 15

Wilfred Buck

Goes community to community in Manitoba, educates about traditional star knowledge

Community was forcibly relocated for hydroelectric dam

Bringing science into First Nation perspective

George Armstrong

Half Algonquin Half Irish, conflicted identity 

NHL HOFer, Maple Leaf Captain and Stanley Cup Winner

Avoided activism

Jeremy Dutcher

Wolastoqiyik composer and singer, blends classical music and indigenous songs 

Polaris prize winner

album uses 100-year old wax cylinder recordings of Wolastoqey songs 

work is about reclamation and revitalization

Richard Wagamese

Ojibwa author and journalist, historical and comtemporary socio-economic issues

Abusive foster homes

Taken as child, sixties scoop

Nigaan Sinclair

Anishnaabe author writing about indig perspective and appearing on many shows and newspapers

Son of Murray Sinclair

Rita Joe

Mi’kmaq poet and songwriter faced discrimination and assimilation in residential school

Wrote “I lost my talk“

Wrote about reconciliation and mutual respect

Emily Pauline Johnson

Mohawk poet and performer about indig experience and oppression

Poem “a cry from an Indian wife“

Stanley park monument in Vancouver BC

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Potawatomi author and ecologist, rebuilding relationships with nature through indig traditions and thinking

Relationship between traditional and scientific knowledge 

Believes in integrating both and thinks that humans can be beneficial for the land 

Ellen Gabriel

Mohawk artist and activist

Spokesperson during Kanesatake Resistance

Indig rights and decolonization

Theodore Fontaine

Ojibway writer and activist

Res school memoir (broken circle)

Facing history and stolen lives

Spent life talking about res schools

Mary Two-Axe Earley

Kahnawake Mohawk who fought for Indig women’s rights 

Equal rights for Indian women org

Fought amendment to Indian act (12.1.b) about Indig women status based on marital status 

Jesse Wente

Anishnaabe writer, broadcaster, activist, talks about Indig representation 

Rakuten Kobo award, bestseller

Indigenous screen office for indig filmmakers

Halluci Nation

Indig DJ group

Powwow step, decolonization, resurgence, culture growth in new music

Jim Thorpe

Born in 1887, natural athlete, raced brother Charlie

Dealt with racism in school but won 2 gold medals

Silent persistence, medals stripped in 1912 bc of baseball for money, eventually returned 

Zhaawong Webb

Indig content creator on insta and tiktok, 200k followers, tells indig stories

Connie Walker

Journalist bc reclaim indig voices

Res school investigation with podcast “stolen“

Wants accountability

Jordin Tootoo

First Inuk NHL player

motivational speaker

Tootoo foundation

Wab Kinew

Manitoba premier, rapper dead indians, memoir “the reason you walk“

Kyrie irving

Discovered indig identity in 2016, named Hela, shoes Chief Hela

Phillip Cote

Anishnaabe artist and knowledge keeer

Indig presence through public art