National Indigenous History Month: To Do

"This website is the most comprehensive attempt to chronicle traditional Métis history and culture on the World Wide Web and contains a wealth of primary documents – oral history interviews, photographs and various archival documents – in visual, audio and video files." - from their website

The Wîcihitowin Indigenous Engagement Conference invites community organizations, governments and businesses to learn about inclusive representation of Indigenous people as employees, volunteers and decision-makers. Within the context of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action, if you’re working towards respectful Indigenous engagement and inclusion in a community-based setting, this conference is for you.

USask students are invited to volunteer with the Building Intercultural Resilience Mentorship program. USask students will be connected with Indigenous high school students in Saskatoon Public Schools to build relationships through shared experiences, interests, and goals.

Discuss and hold each other accountable to your commitment to reconciliation

Link to "'Unapologetically Indigenous': How TikTok provides a community for Indigenous creators to advocate, educate and entertain" news article

"The 4 Seasons of Reconciliation is a 3-hour online educational learning resource which
promotes a renewed relationship between Indigenous Peoples and Canadians, through
transformative and engaging learning towards anti-racism education. The goal of this resource
is to support faculty and staff at our university to provide diversity and inclusion awareness
through a 3-hour asynchronous online courses. It features award-winning films, slideshows,
videos, quizzes and a completion certificate offered by the University Library."

The information learned can be quite heavy and difficult to process

If you see something, say something. Showing yourself as an ally is important

"Radical Stitch looks at the contemporary and transformative context of beading through the aesthetic innovations of artists and the tactile beauty of beads. Beading materials and techniques are rooted in both culturally informed traditions and cultural adaptation, and function as a place of encounter, knowledge transfer, and acts of resistance. Connecting to a tradition of making, exercised over thousands of years, this skill-based practice ties one artist to another, past to present and beyond. The exhibition includes a range of work from the customary to the contemporary, with a variety of approaches, concepts, and purposes. Gathering together top artists from across North America/Turtle Island, the selected pieces exemplify current and future directions of some of the most exciting and impressive practices. The works in Radical Stitch invite viewers to immerse themselves in the political, creative, and aesthetic dimensions of beadwork."

"Maanipokaa’iini is the first-ever survey of the work of the Siksika Nation artist Adrian Stimson. Across installation, painting, photography, video and live performance, Stimson re-signifies colonial history through humour and counter-memory. The exhibition features significant works from Stimson’s nearly 20-year practice that explore identity construction, the centrality of the bison to Blackfoot spirituality and survival, and the intergenerational impacts of the residential school system. These interconnected areas of focus form an encompassing vision wherein the fraught history of Indigenous-settler relations on the Plains is simultaneously mourned and turned on its head."