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September 29, 2020

Carleton Takes Part in Orange Shirt Day to Honour Residential School Survivors

Philip Macho Commanda understands what it means to live with the history of Canada’s residential schools. As a member of the Kitigan Zibi Anishnabeg band, both his grandmother and mother lived through the trauma of... More

September 9, 2020

Carleton Launches Education and Research Collaboration with First Nation of Na-Cho Nyak Dun

Carleton University and the First Nation of Na-Cho Nyak Dun (NND) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on Indigenous and Northern studies, post-secondary education, research and access for learners during a virtual ceremony on... More

July 27, 2020

Watching over Water: Carleton Alum Serves as Ottawa Riverkeeper

From its source at Lac des Outaouais, Que., to Lake of Two Mountains just west of Montreal where it streams into the St. Lawrence, the Ottawa River flows for 1,271 kilometres. The area it drains... More

June 17, 2020

Carleton’s David Miller and Study Team Win Award of Excellence

Carleton’s Chemistry Prof. David Miller is a member of the Sioux Lookout Zone Children’s Environmental Health study team which has been awarded the 2020 Health Canada, Health Environmental and Consumers Safety Branch ADM Award of... More

June 15, 2020

Carleton Linguist Reflects on Unique Eastern Cree Language Website on its 20th Birthday

Marie-Odile Junker, a professor at Carleton University’s School of Linguistics and Language Studies, had a dream years ago where, sad about the disappearance of Indigenous languages worldwide, she finds a teepee occupied by Indigenous Elders... More

May 13, 2020

Carleton University Introduces Kinàmàgawin Indigenous Reconciliation Strategy

Carleton University has released Kinàmàgawin, a revitalized long-term Indigenous strategy with 41 Calls to Action to make Carleton a more welcoming space for current and future Indigenous students and faculty members. Post-secondary institutions across Canada... More

March 4, 2020

Honouring Treaties is the Beginning of True Decolonization

When Coastal GasLink says it got approval from 20 British Columbia First Nations to build a natural gas pipeline through Wet’suwet’en territory, they’re right. Elected band councils from reserves all along the route support the... More

February 11, 2020

Kinàmàgawin Symposium Focuses on Indigenous Identity and Sovereignty

Carleton University’s first annual Kinàmàgawin Symposium focused on important issues rooted in Indigenous identity and sovereignty, many of which remain pressing concerns today, according to the event’s speakers and panelists. “Kinàmàgawin” is an Algonquin word... More

January 24, 2020

Carleton Helps Get the Word Out in Indigenous Communities

While reviewing hospital records from the Sioux Lookout Health Centre in northern Ontario, Tom Kovesi noticed a high number of children had symptoms of respiratory conditions that can be caused by mold. A pediatric respirologist... More

December 4, 2019

Deer Stew and the Drum: Carleton Revives Annual Round Dance

It’s not every night you get to eat deer stew at Carleton University and hear folks competing for the best moose call but that was the scene at Fenn Lounge on the evening of Nov.... More

December 2, 2019

Telling Important Stories: The New TVO Indigenous Hub at Carleton University

As a child, TVO reporter Shelby Lisk heard very little of her family's native language. She was raised in Belleville, Ont. —not very far from Kenhtè:ke (Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory) but far enough to be disconnected.... More

October 1, 2019

Finding Common Ground: Carleton Alum Waneek Horn-Miller on Reconciliation

Reconciliation between Indigenous and settler Canadians won't be a restoration of friendly relations; rather, think of it as making one set of beliefs compatible with another. "Because in Canada, since contact, it hasn't been friendly,"... More