Aboriginal Education Research Forum 2014

• Elder Myra Laramee

Welcoming Remarks

Keynote Speaker

• Verna Kirkness

• Elder Sharing – Elder Levinia Brown
• Archives of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Camille Callison & Ry Moran)
• Red Worn Runners – A Narrative Inquiry into the experiences of Aboriginal Youth and their Families in an Urban School Setting (Dr. Sean Lessard)
• Closing the gap: Enhancing young Aboriginal Children’s mathematical thinking and reasoning skills (Marina Papic)
• Informing Practice with Participatory Action Research (Shari Wallace, Shelly Niemi & Victor Jim)
• A Critical re-conceptualization of Traditional Ecological Knowledge: First Nations psychosocial narratives of Healing, Advocacy, Expression, and Reciprocity (Kris Kelly)
• Tools to Create Conversations Around the Written Words on Water (Sherry Boudreau)
• Preserving Indigenous knowledge through interdisciplinary research with the direct and active involvement of Indigenous Peoples (Dr. Jose Zarate & Dr. Laara Fitznor)
• Integrating Aboriginal Documentaries and Movies into School, University, and Community-Based Curricula (Dr. Helen Armstrong)

• Induction of Shawane Dagosiwin Honourary Planning Members – Mary Young and Helen Armstrong

• Presentation of Awards by the Advanced Education Training and Literacy Aboriginal Advisory Council (AETLAAC)

• Championship Fiddler Jason Lepine

• Elder Sharing Session – Elder John Martin
• Teaching and Learning as an Act of Love: An Examination of the Impact of Seven Traditional Indigenous Teaching Practices in Teacher Education and on Teacher’s Classroom Practices (Dr. Myra Laramee)
• The Psychological Healing Potential of Education (Dr. Glen McCabe)
• Remembrance of Things Past: Winnipeg’s Rooster Town, the Last Metis Road Allowance Community in Winnipeg (Lawrence (Lawrie) Barkwell)
• ECHO – Creating a space of belonging and community for Grade 9 and Grade 10 students (Patti Sayies & Dionne Deer)
• Taking Control of Aboriginal Research: Our Time for Community Action (David Anderson)
• Anishinaabe Elder’s Share Stories on their Perceptions about Anishinaabe Identity for School Success (Marlene Gallagher)
• Renewing relationships at the centre: Creating a postcolonial understanding of Asiniskow Ithiniwak (Rocky Cree) heritage (Myra Sitchon)
• Mina’igoziibing: A History of the Anishinaabeg of pine Creek First Nation in Manitoba (Georgina Nepinak)

• Elder Sharing Session – A beacon of hope, something to look forward to and live for!
  (Elder Don Robertson)
• The Rural Manitoban Generational Metis Identity Project: How Oral History Research can inform Metis Knowledge, Language, Culture, Community, and Future Research (Brielle Beaudin)
• Improving Success for Aboriginal Learners Through Collaboration  (Dianne Bassendowski & Caron Jones)
• Aboriginal Students’ voices in Junior-level English Courses (Dr. Anna Chilewska)
• Teaching with an Indigenous flavour: The implementation of a culture-oriented and environmentally sourced math and science education programs for Canadian Aboriginal youth (Dr. Anthony N. Ezeife, Dr. Bulent Mutus & Russell Nahdee)
• Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Educators Learning to Work Together (Dr. Mary Young & Janice Huber)
• Belonging, Believing, and Becoming: Approaches to Adult Aboriginal Education that Promote Success (Kimberly Embleton & Sharon Slater)
• Introducing Pisim finds her Miskanow: Collaborative content development to support a student’s miskanow (holistic path) (William Dumas, Myra Sitchon & Kevin Brownlee)
• Community Participation in developing Aboriginal Curriculum (Esther Sanderson & Doris Young)

• Round dance

• Elder Martin

• Dr. Laara Fitznor & Marlene Atleo

• Dr. Sherry Peden

• Elder Sharing Session – Spirituality and Lifelong Learning
  (Elder George Fleury)
• Two-Spirited People: A new look at Indigenous Gender and Sexuality (Albert McLeod )
• How the Saskatoon Tribal Justice Program Prevents Indigenous Youth from Engaging in Criminal Behaviour (Dr. John G. Hansen)
• Re-Contextualizing the Architectural Learning Experience: The AlterNATIVE Perspective (Part V) (Kenneth J. Jake Chakasim)
• Elder’s perspectives on Indigenous research: Speaking the truth (James Shawana)
• Supplementing Aboriginal Post-Secondary Education Programs with Aboriginal Music and Art Activities (Karen Favell)
• Developing an Indigenous Women’s Leadership and Research Institute (Chief Cathy Merrick & Sandra Delaronde)
• Medicine Wheel Methodology (Colleen West)
• Touring Turtle Island: Fostering Leadership Capacity to Support First Nations, Metis and Inuit Learners (Dr. Sherry Peden & Dawn Wallin)

• Bannock and Tea Grandparents Circle

• Elders Sharing Session – Elder Emma Gossfeld
• Together in Success: What “Success” Means to Female Post-Secondary Students in the North (Brandee Albert & Delia Chartrand)
• Nikis: Memory Mapping as Indigenous Community Healing Work (Brenda Wastasecoot)
• Ininiwin, nehiyawewin, nehithawewin: Challenges and Processes of Documenting a Polysynthetic Language (Kevin Lewis & Vivian Young)
• Indigenous Dance as a Social Determinant of Health and Well Being (Sandra Lamouche)
• Traditional Aboriginal Games: Mentoring Future Indigenous Leaders (Blair Robillard, Heather McRae &Sonja Schulzki)
• A Divisional Journey of Treaty Education Initiative from a Student Perspective
  (Siobhan Faulkner & Tuelon Collegiate Students)
• Supporting First Nations, Metis, and Inuit students in post secondary education programming: Respecting community, research, practice and dissemination (Dr. Marlene Atleo & Dr. Laara Fitznor)
• Ki taniskotapaninanak – Kinanaw Revisited (Elder Stella Neff, Doris Young & Esther Sanderson)

• Closing Circle
• Closing Prayer
• Adjournment