The Brock community is invited to participate in a virtual discussion being held as part of Treaties Recognition Week.<\/p>\n
Taking place Thursday, Nov. 4 at 1 p.m., the online event will explore the overall importance of treaties and aims to increase awareness of the treaty relationships between Indigenous nations as well as with non-Indigenous peoples.<\/p>\n
Treaties are constitutionally recognized agreements that lay out the rights, responsibilities and relationships of First Nations peoples and the provincial and federal governments.<\/p>\n
The Zoom event will see participants engage in an open discussion with Brock Aboriginal Support Assistant\/Student Advisor Mac Orlando and Faculty of Education Assistant Professor Stanley \u2018Bobby\u2019 Henry, where any and all questions are welcome.<\/p>\n
During the discussion, Orlando hopes those in attendance will learn more about the significance treaties hold as the original agreements of friendship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples and about the land they share.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople often forget how important treaties are,\u201d said Orlando. \u201cWe want to answer questions and have a conversation on the significance of treaties and hope that people walk away from the talk feeling a bit more informed. There are a lot of misconceptions about treaties, and we want to provide an open forum to discuss treaties from an Indigenous perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n
Along with attending the talk, Orlando also encouraged interested community members to visit the native-land.ca<\/a> website to learn more about treaties affecting the areas where they live, work or travel.<\/p>\n Further information and registration details for the event can be accessed via the event\u2019s Zoom link<\/a>.<\/p>\n In addition to observing Treaties Recognition Week, Aboriginal Student Services will mark International Inuit Day on Sunday, Nov. 7 by posting informative resources on its Facebook<\/a> and Instagram<\/a> pages.<\/p>\n With the day falling on a weekend, Aboriginal Events Co-ordinator Cindy Biancaniello\u00a0is inviting any units across campus that are interested in learning more about Inuit culture to contact her at cbiancaniello@brocku.ca<\/a> to set up a presentation at a time of their convenience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Brock community is invited to participate in a virtual discussion being held as part of Treaties Recognition Week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":75007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7484,7,6833,1],"tags":[132,8880,9879,8881,98,10910,10909,9644],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75008,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75006\/revisions\/75008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}