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Indigenous Knowledge Initiative adapts to COVID-19

Written on February 9, 2021. Posted in News, University.

The Indigenous Knowledge Initiative (IKI) has undergone significant changes under COVID-19 to safely continue serving the Queen’s community. The Initiative began with the intent to integrate Indigenous Knowledge at Queen’s and facilitate connection between Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars. Former...

Indigenous Studies degree approved by Arts and Science faculty

Written on November 15, 2019. Posted in News.

After years of planning, Queen’s is introducing a new Indigenous Studies degree program. A Bachelor of Arts (Honours) major and medial in Indigenous Studies was approved by the Arts and Science Faculty Board last week. If it receives Senate approval this month, it will be on its way to the Ministry...

Former First Nations University president to lead Indigenous Knowledge Initiative at Queen’s

Written on September 12, 2019. Posted in News.

After spending five years in Saskatchewan at Canada’s First Nations University, legal scholar Mark Dockstator is coming to Queen’s to lead the Indigenous Knowledge Initiative. Queen’s Trustees David Sharpe, Law ’95, and member of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte, donated $250,000 to Queen’s to fund...

Four Directions respond to National Inquiry with Sacred Fire

Written on July 8, 2019. Posted in News.

When the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls issued its final report in June, it called all Canadians to act against a genocide “rooted in colonialism and colonial ideologies.” At a Sacred Fire hosted last month by the Four Directions Indigenous Student Centre,...

Indigenous education isn’t a trade-off for effective government

Written on October 16, 2018. Posted in Editorials.

Canada’s history with its Indigenous peoples is a harrowing reality that many students in their formative years of studying history don’t effectively learn, and that’s a problem. Before the Ontario Conservatives came to power in June, they campaigned on effective government. But their handling of...

Siera Bearchell and Ellyn Jade talk advocacy in modelling

Written on March 23, 2018. Posted in Lifestyle.

As part of Indigenous Awareness Week, Queen’s Native Students Association (QNSA) and Vogue Charity Fashion Show (VCFS) invited students on Mar. 15 to hear international Indigenous models Siera Bearchell and Ellyn Jade discuss advocacy as Indigenous women in the public eye. As a non-Indigenous person...

Queen’s students protest pipeline expansion at Parliament Hill

Written on October 28, 2016. Posted in News.

On Monday, 99 young people were briefly detained during a protest against pipeline expansion, taking place on Parliament Hill. Among them were two Queen’s students and one Queen’s alumni. The three detained individuals had traveled to Ottawa with 18 individuals from Queen’s and the surrounding Kingston...

Tag: indigenous affairs

Indigenous Knowledge Initiative adapts to COVID-19

Indigenous Studies degree approved by Arts and Science faculty

Former First Nations University president to lead Indigenous Knowledge Initiative at Queen’s

Four Directions respond to National Inquiry with Sacred Fire

Indigenous education isn’t a trade-off for effective government

Siera Bearchell and Ellyn Jade talk advocacy in modelling

Queen’s students protest pipeline expansion at Parliament Hill

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