Saagajiwe

Interdisciplinary Centre for Indigenous Research and Creation @RyersonFCAD. Director, Dr. Lila Pine. Associate Director, Riley Kucheran.
Host of @RUPowWow 2020

[APTN News @APTNNews]

LIVE: The NDP are holding a news conference to call on the Liberal government to declare the MMIWG2S crisis as a Canada-wide emergency. https://t.co/oPi1cyxwct

[Toronto Metropolitan University Pow Wow @TorontoMUPowWow]

We are looking for our 2022 Coordinator! This is an exciting role for leaders who enjoy working with Youth and are passionate about arts, culture and community.
More information can be found here: https://t.co/LS3jgfTbV5

CVs can be sent to [email protected] by April 1st

[Faculty of Arts, Toronto Metropolitan University @arts_tmu]

(9/9) You didn’t know all this? Few do. Share to raise awareness & learn more by following @wreckonciliati1, @onheritage, @VACAORG & visiting https://t.co/TnjnjxXWYZ

#truthandreconciliation #indigenous #residentialschools
#Blackhistory
#ONhistory
#education

[Faculty of Arts, Toronto Metropolitan University @arts_tmu]

(8/9) Egerton Ryerson, for whom Ryerson University is currently named, was linked to Black segregated & residential schools.

#RyersonU
#truthandreconciliation #indigenous #residentialschools
#Blackhistory
#ONhistory
#education

[Faculty of Arts, Toronto Metropolitan University @arts_tmu]

(7/9) Who were the children sent to Black segregated & residential schools? How many were there?

After 1965, the Department of Indian Affairs stopped reporting enrollment numbers by province.

#truthandreconciliation #indigenous #residentialschools
#Blackhistory
#ONhistory

[Faculty of Arts, Toronto Metropolitan University @arts_tmu]

(6/9) Ontario’s first legally segregated Black school, King Street School, opened in 1850 in Amherstburg.

S.S. 11 in Colchester was the last racially segregated school to close in 1965.

#Blackhistory
#ONhistory
#education
#Ontario

[Faculty of Arts, Toronto Metropolitan University @arts_tmu]

(5/9) The nearest residential & segregated schools would've been just a 1-hour drive from XU campus. The Mohawk Institute in Brantford was the first & longest-running residential school in Canada.

#truthandreconciliation #indigenous #residentialschools
#Blackhistory
#ONhistory

[Faculty of Arts, Toronto Metropolitan University @arts_tmu]

(4/9) In the early 1800s, Ontario and Nova Scotia made racial segregation in schools legal. Ontario had 13 Black segregated schools.

#Blackhistory
#ONhistory
#Ontario
#education

[Faculty of Arts, Toronto Metropolitan University @arts_tmu]

(3/9) Between the early 1800s to the late 1990s, Ontario had 18 federally funded residential and 172 federal Indian Day Schools.

https://t.co/TnjnjxXWYZ

#truthandreconciliation
#residentialschools
#indigenous
#ONhistory
#Ontario
#education

[Faculty of Arts, Toronto Metropolitan University @arts_tmu]

(1/9) Do you know your place? Do you know its history? @CrimRye Professor Anne-Marie Singh, Émilie Vanhauwaert, Debra Budhoo, Julia Caputo, Joycelynn Brar, researched the history of residential & segregated schools in ON. Here’s what they learned.

#residentialschools

[Toronto Metropolitan University Pow Wow @TorontoMUPowWow]

Due May 31st! Apply to the NAISA 2021 Ryerson Community Support Fund Here: https://t.co/6mHKTZek1t
@RyersonU

[Saagajiwe @saagajiwe]

Today! Join us for Moon Talks, 12PM-1:30PM 🌕✨
Tickets are still available on Eventbrite:
https://t.co/bNyeYLZRHr

[Saagajiwe @saagajiwe]

Register on Eventbrite: https://t.co/bNyeYLZRHr

[Saagajiwe @saagajiwe]

🌕May 26th! 🌕Join us for the next Moon Talk in Sqoljuigu's, the frog croaking month - in conversation with Mackenna Whitley, Sam Howden, Dr. Lila Pine and Dr. Rai Reece about the namesake of our University and his legacy in the development of racially segregated schools.

[Saagajiwe @saagajiwe]

Next week! Join us for our upcoming Moon Talks - in conversation with Sam Howden and Mackenna Whitley. Register on Eventbrite:
https://t.co/bNyeYLZRHr

[Saagajiwe @saagajiwe]

"Pivoting to an online format due to Covid-19, Creative Native has helped connect youth at a time of extreme social isolation"
Read more about our work on the Creative Native project here:
https://t.co/OxzwuGqoVU

[TMU's Vice-President, Equity & Community Inclusion @ECItorontomet]

Learn about how the Creative Native program, in collaboration with Saagajiwe, has adapted to the online COVID-19 environment, and helped youth connect during this time of extreme social isolation. Read more on Ryerson Today: https://t.co/tyRD6akbyd @saagajiwe @RyersonFCAD

[Saagajiwe @saagajiwe]

The next Moon Talk will be led by Indigenous and Black students responding to calls for the renaming of a university which commemorates a man who was instrumental in the creation of racially segregated schools in Canada.

Join us May 26th, 12PM-1:30PM:
https://t.co/bNyeYLZRHr

[Saagajiwe @saagajiwe]

"Picking up from Land Back, the first Red Paper by @Yellowhead_ about the project of land reclamation, this project looks at how the dispossession of Indigenous lands nearly destroyed Indigenous economic livelihoods"

Go read Cash Back, released today! 📖
https://t.co/aQzcUFnM9u

[Toronto Metropolitan University Pow Wow @TorontoMUPowWow]

We are looking for a Pow Wow Coordinator to lead our student team this summer! ✨ Application due May 17th 2021.

See our job posting here:
https://t.co/1967UHmpPQ

#rupowwow #remotework #hiring