Beverly Jacobs

EDID wekk graphicToday’s EDID Week activities include discussions of accessible educational content, Asian heritage, and eliminating racial discrimination.

Sessions to explore accessibility, diversity, racial equity

Today’s EDID Week activities include discussions of accessible educational content, Asian heritage, and eliminating racial discrimination.

round dance in student centreA mini round dance and panel discussion will bring continued awareness to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and 2 Spirit people, Tuesday in the student centre.

Event today to recall murdered and missing Indigenous women

A mini round dance and panel discussion Tuesday, Feb. 14, will bring continued awareness to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and 2 Spirit people.

“Violence against Indigenous women and girls is an unfair reality and cruel truth, but one that needs to be better understood in order to protect the health and safety of all Indigenous sisters,” says Michelle Nahdee, Indigenous legal studies co-ordinator in the Faculty of Law.

Vincent Georgie, Kat Pasquach, Heather GrondinActing associate vice-president, external Vincent Georgie and co-ordinator of Indigenous outreach and retention Kat Pasquach of the University of Windsor express thanks to Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority vice-president for corporate affairs and external relations Heather Grondin on funding from its Community Benefits Plan.

Indigenous programming to benefit from bridge funding

The Aboriginal Education Centre received funds from the Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority to support its programs serving Indigenous students.
people standing in line“Lacrosse as Medicine,” Monday at the Faculty of Human Kinetics, included a hands-on workshop in the Dennis Fairall Fieldhouse. Leading the workshop was Windsorite Rain Whited and his long-time friend and professional lacrosse player Kellen LeClair of the Buffalo Bandits.

Event highlights importance of lacrosse in Indigenous culture

Rain Whited was just four when his father thought he was old enough to begin playing organized sports.

“He asked me, ‘Do you want to play hockey or lacrosse?’ I didn’t even know what lacrosse was but I said, ‘Lacrosse.’ I think it was the Creator guiding me.”

For Whited, a member of the Oneida Nation of the Thames, lacrosse went on to become an integral part of his life. He played for the Windsor Warlocks, Windsor Clippers, and Wallaceburg Red Devils until he aged out of competitive leagues locally at 21.

Alan Ojig CorbiereAlan Ojig Corbiere, Canada Research Chair in History of Indigenous Peoples of North America, will present “Back to Basics: the Anishinaabe Understanding of the Covenant Chain and the 1764 Treaty of Niagara” on Nov. 11 in the Leddy Library Collaboratory.

Foundational treaty subject of Friday presentation

“Back to Basics: the Anishinaabe Understanding of the Covenant Chain and the 1764 Treaty of Niagara” on Nov. 11 in the Leddy Library.