Perspectives on Indigenous Pedagogy webinar
Channel: BrockCPI
Date: 2024-02-26

Session two features two chapters:
Dr. Keri Cheechoo, Inside Out, or Storytelling Through Truths and Reclamation
Dr. Joey-Lynn Wabie et al. All Our Relations: Stories From the Classroom and the Land

Dr. Keri Cheechoo (she/her) is an Iskwew from the community of Long Lake #58 First Nation, which is in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. She is a mom, a Kookum (grandmother), and scholar who works to both resist and subvert systemic, structural and institutional racisms. Dr. Cheechoo is a Cree scholar who uses poetic inquiry (an arts-based methodology) in a good way that connects her spiritual aptitude for writing with educational research. She situates her pedagogy through both a praxis of ethical relationality, and her Nisgaa methodological framework which is framed by protocol, mamatowisin, or engaging inner mindfulness, and reciprocity.

Dr. Joey-Lynn Wabie, Taylor Watkins, Anastacia Chartrand, Marnie Anderson. All Our Relations: Stories From the Classroom and the Land

Joey-Lynn Wabie is Algonquin from Wolf Lake First Nation. Her anishinaabe nooswin is ziigwankwe  which loosely translates to spring woman. She is from the caribou clan and has three children who she considered gifts from the Creator. Joey-Lynn is an associate professor in the School of Indigenous Relations at Laurentian University which is situated on ancestral Atikameksheng Anishnawbek territory. 

Taylor Watkins is a non-Indigenous ally and settler residing in the Robinson-Huron Treaty Territory and traditional lands of Atikameksheng Anishinabek. Taylor is a recent graduate from the Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Health Program at Laurentian University and is currently working as a Research Coordinator for the Maamwizing Indigenous Research Institute at Laurentian University.

Anastacia Chartrand is non-Indigenous, residing in the Robinson-Huron Treaty Territory and traditional lands of Atikameksheng Anishinabek. She was raised on the traditional lands of Cree, Ojibway, and Algonquin Peoples, as well as Beaverhouse First Nation. Anastacia is a recent graduate of the Master of Science Communication program at Laurentian University and is currently doing a MITACS internship with the City of Greater Sudbury to assist with the development of a new Environmental Program at the university. Anastacia is Laurentian University's Nature Positive Coordinator and co-chair of the Environmental Sustainability Committee. 

Marnie Anderson is a proud Anishinaabe Kwe and mixed European, living in Wahnapitae First Nation. Recently completed the Interdisciplinary Health graduate program at Laurentian University. Marnie's Interests lie in understanding environmental health, dispossession, Treaty history, First Nation marginalization, and Indigenous health and policy.