Montreal launch - When the Pine Needles Fall
Join us for the Montreal book launch of When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance with Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel and Sean Carleton.
Event details:
Thursday, September 26
5:00pm-7:00pm
Espace JAX, Montreal, 1439 St Catherine W. (Bishop entrance)
Speakers:
Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel is a Kanien’kehá:ka, Wakeniáhton (Turtle Clan), artist, documentarian, and Indigenous human rights and environmental rights activist living in Kanehsatà:ke Kanien’kehá:ka Homelands.
Sean Carleton is a settler historian and professor of history and Indigenous Studies at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Treaty 1 Territory.
Facilitated by Samir Shaheen-Hussain. Samir is a racialized settler, social justice activist, pediatric emergency physician and author of the award-winning book, Fighting for A Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism against Indigenous Children in Canada.
Introduction / Welcome: Wanda Gabriel is a Kanien’kehá:ka, adjunct professor at Mcgill school of social work, social worker, facilitator in healing and training on trauma and oppression. Living in Kanien’kehá:ka Homelands.
The event is co-sponsored by Academics for Palestine-Concordia (A4P), the Social Justice Center; the Concordia Student Union (CSU), the Art History Decolonial Action Group (AHDAG), Health workers Alliance for Palestine (HAP), the Office of Indigenous Directions, Research for the Frontlines (R4FL), Caring for Social Justice – Soignons la justice sociale, and the SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation.
Childcare available by reservation. To book childcare, please contact [email protected]
The space is wheelchair accessible. Contact Christiane Bailey ([email protected]) if you have other accessibility needs.
The event will be in English - avec interprétation simultanée vers le français.
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