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Indigenous Studies in the News!

Published: 3 April 2018

This week the Indigenous studies program made the news in the 91˿Ƶ Daily and the Eastern Door!

The 91˿Ƶ Daily covered Chelsea Vowel's Books That Matter about her book "Indigenous Writes". If you missed the event, the article captures it's tenacity well!
In her trademark tongue-in-cheek style, Vowel discredits her own book as a bestseller.
“It is ridiculous, in 2018, that anything in that book comes as a surprise to anyone,” she declares,
calling it an introductory scope of Indigenous peoples in Canada — stuff we should already know.
“The fact that people can still open that up and go ‘Woah, I didn’t know that,’ means that we have
a really, really long way to go.”

Read the full article .

The Eastern Door, an based in Kahnawake, covered our Indigenous Knowledge Holder Ryan McMahon's visit to the Kahnawake survival school. Read the full article here.

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