Presentations and Photos from the Indigenizing the Academy Conference
May 3 & 4, 2018
Membertou Trade and Convention Centre

• Professor Sa’ke’j Henderson – Uplifting L’Nuisation Means the Universities Can be Better
• Dr. Cheryl Bartlett and Elder Albert Marshall – Storytelling and Dancing – Valuing our Relationships and Actions
• Professor David Newhouse – Faculty Associations as Allies
• Dr. Marie Battiste – Indigenizing the Academy: Roots of Cognitive Assimilation or Routes to Cognitive Justice?
• Assistant Professor Naiomi Metallic – Schulich School of Law: Efforts to Implement the TRC Report and Calls to Action

Poster Presentations

• Chelsey Purdy & Shannan Grant, Mount St. Vincent University – “Exploring Innovative Community-based STEM Education Strategies for Indigenous Children and Youth: Can Summer Science Camps Provide an Opportunity for Two-eyed Seeing?”
• David G. Fletcher & Bernard Yangmaadome Guri, St. Francis Xavier University – “Risk Taking in a University Multicultural Classroom: Facilitating Experiences to Reawaken an Appreciation of Indigenous Knowledges”
• Jenny Rowett & Nancy Harn, University of New Brunswick, “Etuaptmumk in Counsellor Education:  The Vision and Development of the Graduate Certificate in Indigenous Counselling.”
• Aedan Alderson, York University – “After the Land Acknowledgement Statement: Re-centering Indigenous Countries as our Site of Learning in University Education on Turtle Island.”
• Heather Schmidt, Cape Breton University – “Mi’kmaw Inclusion at CBU: Assessment & Taking Steps toward Indigenizing Curriculum in Psychology.”
• Barb Glassey, Catherine Arseneau, & Katherine Jones, Cape Breton University – “Achievements and Lessons Learned from ‘Avatars of Human Creativity: Exploring the ArtSci Connect’”