Program

All Times In Central Daylite Time

TBD Pipe Ceremony (TBD)

• 9:00am
  • Floor 1 – Registration and Networking
  • Floor 7 – Art Gallery & Exhibitor
• 9:15am
  • Floor 1 – Opening Prayer
  • Floor 1 – Honour Song (Big River Cree, Saskatchewan)
• 9:30am
  • Floor 1 – Welcome Remarks – Dr. Ramona Neckoway, Ithinew, University College of the North and Dr. Myrle Ballard, Anishinaabe, University of Manitoba
  • Floor 1 – Welcome Remarks from University of Manitoba & University College
    of the North
• 10:00am
  • Floor 1 – Dr. Jennifer Denetdale, Navajo Nation, Professor, University of New Mexico
    Topic: Indigenous Gender Politics of Care in the Time of COVID
    Moderator: Dr. Myrle Ballard
• 11:15am – Health Break/Ice Breaker
• 11:30am – Breakout Sessions
  • Floor 1 – Sami presentation – TBA; Sápmi (Sami Homeland)
  • Floor 2 – Indigenous Birth Helpers supporting Indigenous families through the pandemic – Stephanie Sinclair, Tara Petti (FNHSSM); Valentina McKay (Misipawistik Cree Nation); Jolene Mercer, Wiijii’idiwag
    Ikwewag
  • Floor 3 – Alternatives to the exploitative both of humans and the rest of nature – Vasna Ramasar (Global Tapestry Alternatives)
  • Floor 4 – A Folklore of River Teesta worshipped by Indigenous tribe Lepcha – Minket Lepcha (Northern India)
• 12:30pm – All Floors – Health Break/Ice Breaker
• 1:00pm 
  • Floor 1 – National Panel
    Dr. Barry Lavallee – Métis, St. Laurent, Manitoba; CEO of Keewatinohk
    Inniniw Minoayawin Inc.
    Dr. Ojistoh Horn – Affiliation, Title, Location”
    Dr. Nel Wieman – Anishinaabe, Little Grand Rapids, Manitoba; Acting Deputy Chief Medical Officer for the First Nations Health Authority; President of the Indigenous Physicians Association of Canada
• 2:15pm – Concurrent Session
  • Floor 5 – Panel on Gender, Violence and COVID
  • Floor 6 – Tribes on the Edge Film and Discussion – Celine Cousteau, Los Angeles, USA
• 3:15pm – Health Break
• 3:30pm – Breakout Sessions
  • Floor 1 – The Muskrat Hut Sustainable Hub Project/ The land should lead us: Acknowledging community viability to practice Indigenous health sovereignty in northern Manitoba – Débora Boratto (UFMG Brazil); Dr. Alex Wilson (University of Saskatchewan;, Asfia Kamal (University College of the North)
  • Floor 2 – Talking about Water Through Art – Betty Carpick (Thunder Bay, Ontario)
  • Floor 3 – Psychosocial Assessments – Carl Fontaine
    (Sagkeeng Anicinabe Nation); Alrika Rojas, Somia Sadiq (Narratives
    Inc.)
  • Floor 4 – Developing an Indigenous Virtual Care Clinic – Alberta Indigenous Virtual Care Clinic
• 4:45pm – Breakout Sessions
  • Floor 1 – COVID-19 Anxiety in the age of the anthropocene: research creation – Dr. Joanna Black (University of Manitoba); Dr. Pam Patterson, Daniel Payne (OCAD University)
  • Floor 2- Studying in Challenging Times: Reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic by Indigenous Students at the University College of the North – Joseph Atoyebi & Ying Kong (University College of the North)
  • Floor 3 – Kis Kin Hi Ma Ki Win: Land Based Learning – Taylor Galvin, Dylan Kensick (Kis Kin Hi Ma Ki Win)
  • Floor 4 – Pandemic Response and Emergency Planning (Part 1 of 2) – Vancouver Island University
• 5:45pm – All Floors – Health Break
• 6:00pm
  • Floor 7 – Networking and Art Gallery/Exhibitor
• 7:00pm
  • Floor 1 – Cultural Event 5-10 performers (2 hrs)

All Times In Central Daylite Time

• 9:00am
  
  • Floor 1 – Registration and Networking
    Floor 7 – Art Gallery & Exhibitor
• 9:15am
  
  • Floor 1 – Honour Song
• 9:30am
  
  • Floor 1 – Welcoming Remarks and Recap – Dr. Ramona Neckoway, Ithinew, University College of the North and Dr. Myrle Ballard, Anishinaabe, University of Manitoba
• 10:00am
  
  • Floor 1 – Dr. Rawiri Taonui – Māori, New Zealand, Independent Writer, Researcher and Advisor
    Topic: TBD
• 11:00am
  
  • Floor 2 – Introduction to Surveys with the COVID-19 Indigenous App – Craig Dietrich (Independent Software Developer); Shanna Lorenz (Occidental College)
• 11:45am – Concurrent Session
  • Floor 1 – On the Vaccine Front Lines
  • Floor 2 – Industry Panel (TBD)
  • Floor 3 – Youth (TBD)
• 12:45pm
  
  • Floor 2 – Community Experiences Panel
    Dr. Becky Neckoway – Ojibway and Cree, Eabametoong and Fox Lake Cree Nation, Hospitalist and Family Physician
    Tania Cameron – Kenora, Ontario, Aboriginal Sports and Wellness Council of Ontario
    Sylvia McAdam – Saysewahum, nēhīyaw Nation, Idle No More; One House Many Nations
    Nancy Mike – Inuk, Pangnirtung, Nunavut, Qaujigiartiit Health Research Centre
• 1:45pm – Health Break
• 2:00pm – Breakout Sessions
  
  • Floor 1 – Geographical Representation of COVID-19 Cases for Indigenous
    Nations Across Canada – Victoria Grima (University of Manitoba); Emily Unger (Kitatipithitamak Mithwayawin)
  • Floor 2 – Need a Break? Tea and Bannock: Mental Health, Grief Loss and Strategies for Coping – Colby Tootoosis, Cree, Saska (Freedom Rising)
  • Floor 3 – Indigenous Elf on the Shelf: Indigenous Ways of knowing – Mark Sweeny, Cree, Winnipeg, Manitoba
  • Floor 4 – Pandemic Response and Emergency
    Planning (Part 2 of 2) – Vancouver Island University
• 3:15pm – Breakout Sessions
  
  • Floor 1 – COVID-19: Experiences of reflections from a collective of Kichwa Midwives – Asociación de Mujeres Parteras del Napo; Community Engaged Learning University of Manitoba
  • Floor 2 – Ganawendamaw – A First Nations Led, Community Based Pandemic Response Strategy – Pam Grenier, Dora Simmons, Candace Linklater, Stephanie Van Haute, Helene Estrada (Southeast Resource Development Council Corp. – Health Services)
  • Floor 3 – Health Sovereignty and Food Sovereignty in the time of COVID- 19: Sharing Community Perspectives – Dr. Asfia Gulrukh Kamal, River Johnson (Univeristy College of the North); Northern Manitoba Food Culture and Community Collaborative
  • Floor 4 – The Mamawi Project: Emergent Technologies as Waterways to the Métis Homeland – Lindsay DuPré, Métis (University of Toronto) and Lucy Fowler, Métis, (University of Saskatchewan)
• 4:30pm- Energy Break & Networking Event!
• 6:00pm Breakout Sessions
  
  • Floor 1 – Implementation of the Kenanow learning model throughout all disciplines – Stella Neff, Cree, Grand Rapids, Manitoba (University College of the North Council of Elders)
  • Floor 2 – Integral Ecology Group: Photovoice Book – Integral Ecology Group
  • Floor 3 – Rural Communities in the Dominican Republic during COVID-19: Disablement and Resistance
  • Floor 4 – Manito Aki Inaakonigaawin – History and Implementation George Kakeway ( Wauzhushk Onigum); Somia Sadiq (Narratives Inc.)
• 8:00pm CT Beading (to be started earlier)

All Times In Central Daylite Time

• 9:30am
  • Floor 1 – Registration and Networking
    Floor 7 – Art Gallery & Exhibitor
• 9:45am
  • Floor 1 – Honour Song
• 10:00am
  • Floor 1 – Welcoming Remarks and Recap – Dr. Ramona Neckoway, Ithinew, University College of the North and Dr. Myrle Ballard, Anishinaabe, University of Manitoba
• 10:15am
  • Floor 1 – Senator Mary Jane McCallum – Cree, Barren Lands First Nation, Manitoba, Senate of Canada
    Topic: Lessons Learned from COVID-19 through a First Nations Lens: Why Western Science is Not Enough

• 11:30am
  • Floor 1 – The Western Hemisphere Panel Keshab Thapa, Bagale Thapa clan of the Kshyatri caste, Nepal
    Onel Masardule , Panama, “tribal affiliation”
    Alejandro Argumedo, Peru, Director of the Association ANDES,
  • Floor 2 – Around the World – Community Perspectives (Placeholder title) Mary-Lee Sandy-Aliyak, Iqaluit, Nunavut Kim Birnie, Hawaii Location, title, “tribal affiliation”
  • Panelist 3 – TBD
    
• 12:30pm
  • Floor 5 – Storytelling
    • Isaac Murdoch – Ojibway, Serpent River, First Nation, Storyteller and Traditional Knowledge Holder
    • Louis Bird – Swampy Cree, Winisk First Nation, Peawanuck, Ontario, Storyteller and Traditional Knowledge Holder

• 1:45pm – Breakout Sessions
  • Floor 1 – Virtual Engagement: Relationship building, safe, authentic and culturally appropriate practices – Tina Miller, Hélène Campbell and Cathy Almost (Health Standards Organization and BC Patient Safety & Quality Council)
  • Floor 2 – Okihtcitawak Patrol Group – Sasktaoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
  • Floor 3 – Ka-apachihtaaniwan Creating Togetherness when we are apart – Laura Forsythe (University of Manitoba)
  • Floor 4 – Post-COVID Horizons: Income-Transfers, Indigenous Poverty and Meaningful Occupations, Julio Lucchesi, (Université de Saint Boniface)
• 3:00pm – Breakout Sessions
  • Floor 1 – Knowledge to Action: Stop the silence by the good people Etsuko Yasui, Brandon University
  • Floor 2 – Session on book coleads are contributing to- Kahkakiw…
  • Floor 3 – Our place, our home, our vision – Jessica Savoy, Matthew Morin (Aboriginal Life In Vancouver Enhancement Society)
• 4:15pm – Closing remarks and wrap up