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Indigenous Language Education and Online Video Conferencing: Initial Reflections
Photo of Ian McCallum’s Laptop showing Yoon Ha Da Yuleekhamuneen Huluniixsuwaakan / This Is the Way We Write our Language and students (from top to bottom) Ian McCallum, Sarah and Kyenna Saunders, Jamie Tucker, and […]
CANCELLED – Pre-NAISA Gathering Short Histories Workshop
We have decided to cancel the Pre-NAISA Gathering Short Histories Workshop on May 5 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This cancellation follows the NAISA council’s decision to cancel the annual meeting. We are saddened to […]
Pre-NAISA Gathering Short Histories: A Workshop for Indigenous Historians, May 5, 2020
The editorial boards of Shekon Neechie and Te Pouhere Korero (https://www.facebook.com/tepouherekorero/), two Indigenous history organizations, are hosting a one-day gathering of Indigenous historians on the 5th of May, 2020. This gathering will be held two […]
“A genuine revolution”: Transracial Gendered Relationships During International Women’s Year, 1975
By Sarah Nickel At the British Columbia Indian Homemakers’ Association annual dinner commemorating International Women’s Year in June 1975, New Democratic Party MLA Rosemary Brown gave a rousing speech outlining “our shared struggles” as women […]
On Being the Wrong Mary Jane McCallum: Names, Assumptions and Connections in the (Still-Unexpected) Indigenous Post-Secondary
By Mary Jane “not the senator” McCallum Mary Jane McCallum was appointed to the Senate in early December 2017. At the time, she joined five other Indigenous senators: Murray Sinclair, Lillian Dyck, Sandra Lovelace Nicholas, […]
Naming and Renaming: Confronting Canada’s Past
By Brenda Macdougall On 13 July 2018, I was one of five scholars asked to present thoughts on the topic, “What’s in a Name? The Debate over Public Commemorations in Canada,” for the Historical Thinking […]
Happy National Indigenous People’s Day! And Welcome to Shekon Neechie: An Indigenous History Site
About the site Shekon Neechie provides a venue for Indigenous historians to gather as an e-community and share their ideas or works in progress. “Historian” in this case is broadly defined as a person who […]
Indigenous People, Archives and History
By Mary Jane Logan McCallum This essay is based on a lecture given as part of the Weweni Lecture Series at the University of Winnipeg on March 7, 2018.[1] The Weweni Lecture series is designed […]
Historians and Indigenous Genocide in Saskatchewan
By Robert Alexander Innes As a result of the Calls to Action released by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) the notion that Indigenous people endured cultural genocide has garnered much discussion. For many, who […]