{"id":9556,"date":"2011-04-18T10:58:41","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T15:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=9556"},"modified":"2011-04-18T10:58:41","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T15:58:41","slug":"tecumseh-centre-shares-research-with-the-aboriginal-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/04\/tecumseh-centre-shares-research-with-the-aboriginal-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Tecumseh Centre shares research with the Aboriginal community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/education\/community\/tecumseh\" target=\"_blank\">Tecumseh Centre for Aboriginal Research and Education<\/a> hosted a Dinner and Drum Social recently to share research with the Aboriginal community.<\/p>\n<p>The social was held at the Niagara Regional Native Centre. It began with an address from Michael Manley-Casimir, professor of Education, who spoke about the importance of supporting Aboriginal women in education. He was followed by the keynote speaker, Kim Anderson, a Cree\/Metis scholar, educator and author of <em>A Recognition of Being: Reconstructing Native Womanhood<\/em> and the co-edited anthology <em>Strong Women Stories: Native Vision and Community Survival<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Brant, program developer at the Tecumseh Centre, presented her research on the <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=9547\">development of an Aboriginal Women&#8217;s Certificate program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There were also performances by Keysa Parker (jingle dress dancer), Adrienne Smoke (fancy shawl dancer) and Nicole Shawana (hoop dancer). Champion powwow drum group Whitefish Jrs. facilitated a Round Dance Social and offered teachings on both the Cree Round Dance and the Haudenosaunee Social Dances. More than 150 people attended.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the development of the Aboriginal Women\u2019s Certificate Program, contact Jennifer Brant at <a href=\"mailto:jbrant@brocku.ca\">jbrant@brocku.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The centre hosted a recent dinner and drum social.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[215],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9556"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9556"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9560,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9556\/revisions\/9560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}