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No Gimmick! Women in the ring before GLOW
With all the interest around the Netflix show GLOW, a drama about the 1980s TV show, I thought some of you might want to learn about women wrestlers in the ring before GLOW. Women like “The Kentucky Wildcat” (Jeanetta Collins)…suggesting responses to fearmongering (unsubstansiated beliefs) about Syrian refugees
Inspired by current events like the one depicted in this article in Democracy Now: “Nativist Hysteria” Against Syrian Refugees Echoes U.S. Rejection of Jewish Refugees in 1930s; along with Tim Evan’s Facebook post today asking: “As folklorists, what role should we…
Call for Participants! Curating Indigenous Knowledge; Digital Technologies & Indigenous-Centered CRM
Call for participants! Curating Indigenous Knowledge & Indigenous-Centered CRM. http://t.co/pqksK21ROc pic.twitter.com/WLQAQiUX3m — Amber Ridington (@AmberRidington) September 28, 2015Center for Indigenous Governance at Ryerson University offers a minor for First Peoples and others
PAMELA PALMATER talks about her work at Ryerson in Indigenous administration and governance: See these links for more: First Nations Technical Institute http://www.ryerson.ca/politics/padp/fnti.html Pamela Palmater (Chair of the Center for Indigenous Governance) bio and publications: http://www.ryerson.ca/politics/facultyandstaff/bio_PamelaPalmater.htm
Residential school history – explored through art
“Indian Children” by Yvonne McKague Housser, 1944. Image courtesy, Sampson-Matthews Silkscreen Prints This 1944 painting touched me immensely last December when I first saw it. I noticed it on the wall of Christine Caroline’s Estate Sale Store in Vancouver. I…Map of Europe: 1000 AD to present day Look at all those changes over the time.
This makes me wonder, Where am I from? What is my cultural background? I am a first-generation Canadian. More precisely a European (German and English), American Canadian – and that’s all I know. View the map and read more at…Indigenous Mapping Day – August 9! Held in honor of the UN’s International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
This event , held in conjunction with the UN International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples is supported by the National Congress of American Indians, Google earth outreach, and Google maps. Find more about the event by clicking here. I am finding…A national memory for Canada
“Our ambition in the truth determination process is to ensure that we establish a national memory, for Canada, around residential schools, so that in 50 and 100 years from now, no one will ever be able to say that this did not happen.”CHIEF JUSTICE MURRAY SINCLAIR