Indigeneity, Colonialism and COVID: Land Defenders and Water Protectors in a Pandemic Age, is an online event with renowned scholars and activists Winona LaDuke, Pamela Palmater and Niigaan Sinclair, discussing this moment in time from the Indigenous perspective and where Indigenous people and their allies can go from here. The Decolonization project continues but how has the pandemic changed it?
Speakers
Winona LaDuke is an internationally recognized activist and former Vice-Presidential Candidate of the United States with Ralph Nader (2000, 2004). Winona has spent her life working on issues of sustainable development, renewable energy and food systems, and Indigenous Justice based on the White Earth reservation in Northern Minnesota.
Pamela Palmater is a Mi'kmaq lawyer, professor, author, activist and politician from Mi'kma'ki, New Brunswick, Canada. A frequent media political commentator, she appears for Aboriginal Peoples Television Network's InFocus, CTV, and CBC. She is an associate professor and the academic director of the Centre for Indigenous Governance at Ryerson University.
The event will be hosted by Niigaan Sinclair, award-winning writer, editor and activist columns in The Winnipeg Free Press.