91探花

In the first Trudeau Lecture to come to the 91探花, beloved M茅tis author and playwright Maria Campbell, 2012 visiting Trudeau Fellow, talks about the connection between her volunteering, her academic career, and her work in literature, theatre, and video to end violence against women in her lecture entitled: "Picking Up The Pieces - Seeking Out The Roots Of Violence Against Indigenous Women." Growing up in a Road Allowance M茅tis community in northern Saskatchewan, Dr. Campbell witnessed the power that women in her community exercised, as well as the violence they experienced. A lifelong student of Indigenous oral history, she will speak to what she has learned of traditional ways that fostered respect and authority for Aboriginal women, and on how colonization disrupted those ways and introduced gendered violence. Dr. Campbell will also describe how she is using her Trudeau Foundation fellowship to explore archival and secondary source material to support what she knows about the roots of violence against Aboriginal women. Her lecture will cover how she came to look for these 鈥減ieces of ourselves left behind鈥� in documentary sources, and how observations about Aboriginal women from a Euro/Western lens can be re-visited to assist Aboriginal women鈥檚 activism today. Admission is free and all are welcome to attend. Light refreshments will be served.