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On Being the Wrong Mary Jane McCallum: Names, Assumptions and Connections in the (Still-Unexpected) Indigenous Post-Secondary

  • by shekonneechie
  • Posted on September 20, 2018September 20, 2018
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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, […]

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Naming and Renaming: Confronting Canada’s Past

  • by shekonneechie
  • Posted on August 1, 2018
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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 […]

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Happy National Indigenous People’s Day! And Welcome to Shekon Neechie: An Indigenous History Site

  • by shekonneechie
  • Posted on June 21, 2018August 27, 2021
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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 […]

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Indigenous People, Archives and History

  • by shekonneechie
  • Posted on June 21, 2018
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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 […]

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Historians and Indigenous Genocide in Saskatchewan

  • by shekonneechie
  • Posted on June 21, 2018April 20, 2022
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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 […]

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Clearing the Plains of Accountability

  • by shekonneechie
  • Posted on June 21, 2018August 4, 2018
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By Robert Alexander Innes Dewdney Avenue runs east–west through the entire length of the city of Regina, the capital of Saskatchewan: past the RCMP Academy in the west end, skirting the iconic (new) Mosaic Stadium, […]

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Kika’ige Historical Society

  • by shekonneechie
  • Posted on June 21, 2018June 23, 2018
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By Kim Anderson The Kika’ige Historical Society is a professorial performance art troupe, formed by three Indigenous women with PhDs in Canadian history: Dr. Kim Anderson (Metis, Associate Professor, Family Relations and Applied Nutrition, University of Guelph); Dr. Lianne […]

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Identity, Appropriation, and Imposters: What do our Aadizookaanag (sacred stories) tell us?

  • by shekonneechie
  • Posted on June 21, 2018July 27, 2018
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By Alan Corbiere Perhaps appropriation of identity started with Grey Owl aka Archie Belaney, and spread to Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, aka Sylvester Clarke Long, but it has continued to our present day with […]

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Turning the Lens: Indigenous Archival Photo Project

  • by shekonneechie
  • Posted on June 21, 2018
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By Paul Seesequasis The genesis of the Indigenous Archival Photo Project was three years ago, when my mother, a residential school survivor of St. Micheals Residential School at Duck Lake, commented that there were not […]

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Ways of Knowing: Promising New Directions for Métis Research: Promoting Metis-focused Scholarship

  • by shekonneechie
  • Posted on June 21, 2018
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By Brenda Macdougall On 27, 28, and 29 April 2018 the authors co-hosted the “Ways of Knowing: Promising New Directions for Métis Research” at the Lord Elgin Hotel in Ottawa for an audience primarily, but […]

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