Take My Hand: Resistance and Resurgence Through Relationality
This conversation will illustrate the impacts of intergenerational and contemporary impacts of colonial violence on Indigenous women’s bodies, and the necessity of both resistance and resurgence. By practicing mamatowisin (an inner mindfulness), this author will speak to and through the regenerative synergies of poetic inquiry. Mindful of protocols and relationality, the author will share how they have (re)centered and (re)stor(y)ed the powerful voices of women who have experienced reproductive violence, racism and/or injustices. To provide contextualization, the contributor's research documents a doctoral study that employed Cree Knowledge, arts-based methodology, and poetic pedagogy.
Dr. Keri Cheechoo (she/her) is an Iskwew from the community of Long Lake #58 First Nation, which is in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. She is a mom, a Kookum (grandmother), and scholar who works to both resist and subvert systemic, structural and institutional racisms. Dr. Cheechoo is a Cree scholar who uses poetic inquiry (an arts-based methodology) in a good way that connects her spiritual aptitude for writing with educational research. She situates her pedagogy through both a praxis of ethical relationality, and her Nisgaa methodological framework which is framed by protocol, mamatowisin, or engaging inner mindfulness, and reciprocity.
, this seminar is free to attend but booking is required.
Bookings for this session will close 24 hours in advance so that the meeting link can be distributed by seminar convenors.
This page was last updated on 14 March 2025
