Keynote Speaker
Dr. Omeasoo Wāhpāsiwis a nehiyaw iskwew living in Anishinabe territory. Her PhD dissertation is titled Tla’amin Housing, Architecture and Home Territories inthe20th Century: Invisible spaces Shaping Historical Indigenous Education. It explorestheways in which Indigenous people have maintainedtheir cultural and spatial heritage even while forced to inhabit architecture that follows colonial paradigms. Omeasoo co-wrotetheFederation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations Women’s Commission submission totheNational Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ People. Forthepast several years, she has been an Assistant Professor intheDepartment of Education attheUniversity of Prince Edward Island, where she led a suite of courses on Indigenous culture and values, andtheemerging legacy oftheresidential schools. Omeasoois cross-appointed with Carleton’s School of Indigenous & Canadian Studies and the Department of History.
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Performer
Kevin McKay
is from Cross Lake First Nation in Northern Manitoba. Kevin has been playing fiddle since he was 12 years old, and he plays for community events across the North. Kevin initiated the Pride Day/Two-Spirited Gathering in Cross Lake. You can see Kevinhighlightedin theCBC Docsfilm, "Twilight Dancers,"from 2016.