Ted Quewezance can tell you first-hand about the plight his people have faced when it comes to engaging with Canada’s health care-system. The former chief of the Keeseekoose First Nation and Residential School survivor has been a vocal critic of Canada’s health care system and how it favours non-Indigenous Canadians over Indigenous Canadians.
It’s been a sad few months for the University of Regina family. We have endured a string of passings of several people who had strong ties to the University.
During her sabbatical from teaching and administrative work as an associate professor of Visual Arts, Risa Horowitz travelled to Svalbard, in the Arctic, for two very different artist residencies. View some of her of documented performances from her “Practicing Standing” series.
Indigenous Languages, Arts and Cultures professor Andrew Miller was poking around the basement of First Nations University of Canada when he came across almost 600 photos, most of them depicting late 19th century and early 20th century Indigenous life.
Métis artist and associate professor David Garneau is working on a two-year art commission for the City of Edmonton.
Thomas Benjoe is helping to shape one of the most important growth sectors in Saskatchewan’s economy – Indigenous business development. Benjoe was 17 when he read a magazine profile about the CEO of a successful First Nations investment company in Manitoba.
Sylvia McAdam Saysewahum never attended residential school. Neither did her grandparents, parents or siblings. They were all hidden away and therefore avoided the legacy of pain that has trickled down through generations of many Indigenous families.