Reconciliation: Re-Membering Creator's First Sacred Pipe
2:00 PM on Saturday Oct. 27th, 2018
Alexander Community Centre, 960 Silver St.
Price: $22 limited tickets
2:00 PM on Saturday Oct. 27th, 2018
Alexander Community Centre, 960 Silver St.
Price: $22 limited tickets
Honouring Akikpautik and Akikodjiwan
Tickets can be purchased at this Eventbrite link:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reconciliation-re-membering-creators-first-sacred-pipe-tickets-49213541026
A Panel Discussion with Albert Dumont, Lynn Gehl, Randy Boswell, and Lindsay Lambert
This panel discussion brings together respected Algonquin practitioner Albert Dumont; Algonquin intellectual Lynn Gehl; settler ally historian Lindsay Lambert; and professor of journalism Randy Boswell to discuss and uncover how it is that an Indigenous sacred water and landscape, specifically Akikpautik / Akikodjiwan, located in Canada’s Capital Region just upstream from Canada’s parliament continues to be subjugated by colonial power and corporate greed.
Collectively this panel will explore, discuss, and uncover how this is happening within the context of the Liberal government’s political platform and rhetoric of “nation to nation” and “reconciliation”.
ONLY 100 tickets at $22.00 each will be sold through Eventbrite on a first come first serve basis. We are strongly encouraging the tickets be pre-purchased versus at the door. Again only 100 tickets will be sold. Again here is the link:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reconciliation-re-membering-creators-first-sacred-pipe-tickets-49213541026
Both Albert's and Lynn's books will be available for purchase. Cash only please.
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Albert Dumont’s Blurb:
The Purpose of Spirituality for Human Beings
In his talk Albert will stress spirituality and its purpose in the life of a human being, that it is something which should be nurtured and carefully cared for lest the day arrives that we find ourselves as caricatures of what Creator intended human beings to be.
He adds the origins of what we recognize today as “Indigenous knowledge” began at a time, far in the past, when the “People” realized that the spiritual, physical, and emotional health and wellbeing of their nation was directly connected to the decisions made by their relatives who lived seven generations before them. Indigenous knowledge is/was produced by a spiritual/dream world communication taking place between the human beings and their environment. The leaf, the feather, the rock, the brook and all other life can teach lessons connected to all seasons of life and offer spiritual guidance to us through their supreme wisdom. The spiritual DNA of the land vibrates in the heart and spirit of one who holds Indigenous knowledge in his/her spiritual bundle.
Lynn Gehl’s Abstract:
What Indigenous Knowledge Offers Human Beings
Indigenous knowledge (IK) is a complete knowledge system that began with a dream and of course our own Creation Story. IK also includes processes and practices of gaining knowledge, and processes and practices of disseminating knowledge. Fundamentally, though, IK is a relationship that relies on individual agency and responsibility and values that morals exist before other knowledge. It is in these ways that IK is more than “Elderism” and a collection of stock stories that need to be remembered. Through the method of personal storytelling I will share aspects of the Anishinaabeg Creation Story, and the Sacred Pipe and the knowledge inherent. I gained this knowledge from listening to knowledge holders, reading appropriate literature, and from deep critical thinking introspections. My goal in this talk is to provide an IK framework for people to perceive through as they continue to learn more about the importance of the valuing the sacred versus destructive economics.
Lindsay Lambert’s Abstract:
Understanding Who Holds the Deeds to the Islands
Driven by the need for fairness, social justice, and the need for humans to honour the sacred Lindsay will share what he has come to know about who has jurisdiction of Chaudière, Albert, and Victoria Islands. In his search for deeper understanding his ongoing research encompasses archival documents obtained from the National Archives of Canada, 2015 through 2017 Service Ontario Land Registry Records, 2015 through 2017 Region 03 Assessment Rolls for property tax, as well as other government sources. The knowledge that he will share also emerges from his first person experience as an appellant with the Ontario Municipal Board regarding the City of Ottawa’s re-zoning of the Islands for the purpose of Windmill’s project slated for the Islands.
Randy Boswell’s Abstract:
Falls from Grace: The Dual Desecration of the Chaudière Falls
Nineteenth-century Ottawa-Hull witnessed the dual desecration of the Chaudière Falls at the heart of Anishinàbeg Aki. For millennia, the falls were both a wondrous natural phenomenon and an important Indigenous spiritual site — the central feature of a richly layered cultural landscape along the Ottawa River that included bountiful food and stone-tool resources, as well as an important and enduring burial place at the present shoreline site of the Canadian Museum of History. But Euro-Canadian settlement of the Ottawa River region after 1800 marginalized the resident Algonquin people and put the falls under the yoke of industry — a lumber trade deemed vital not only for the growth of the city that became Canada’s capital, but also for the eventual realization of a transcontinental nation. The waterfall’s sacred history was obscured — though not forgotten — and the associated burial site repeatedly disturbed, even as the sawmills powered by the Chaudière’s raging waters generated so much wood waste that it sparked Canada’s first major industrial pollution controversy in 1866.
Chi-Miigwetch
Tickets can be purchased at this Eventbrite link:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reconciliation-re-membering-creators-first-sacred-pipe-tickets-49213541026
A Panel Discussion with Albert Dumont, Lynn Gehl, Randy Boswell, and Lindsay Lambert
This panel discussion brings together respected Algonquin practitioner Albert Dumont; Algonquin intellectual Lynn Gehl; settler ally historian Lindsay Lambert; and professor of journalism Randy Boswell to discuss and uncover how it is that an Indigenous sacred water and landscape, specifically Akikpautik / Akikodjiwan, located in Canada’s Capital Region just upstream from Canada’s parliament continues to be subjugated by colonial power and corporate greed.
Collectively this panel will explore, discuss, and uncover how this is happening within the context of the Liberal government’s political platform and rhetoric of “nation to nation” and “reconciliation”.
ONLY 100 tickets at $22.00 each will be sold through Eventbrite on a first come first serve basis. We are strongly encouraging the tickets be pre-purchased versus at the door. Again only 100 tickets will be sold. Again here is the link:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reconciliation-re-membering-creators-first-sacred-pipe-tickets-49213541026
Both Albert's and Lynn's books will be available for purchase. Cash only please.
----------
Albert Dumont’s Blurb:
The Purpose of Spirituality for Human Beings
In his talk Albert will stress spirituality and its purpose in the life of a human being, that it is something which should be nurtured and carefully cared for lest the day arrives that we find ourselves as caricatures of what Creator intended human beings to be.
He adds the origins of what we recognize today as “Indigenous knowledge” began at a time, far in the past, when the “People” realized that the spiritual, physical, and emotional health and wellbeing of their nation was directly connected to the decisions made by their relatives who lived seven generations before them. Indigenous knowledge is/was produced by a spiritual/dream world communication taking place between the human beings and their environment. The leaf, the feather, the rock, the brook and all other life can teach lessons connected to all seasons of life and offer spiritual guidance to us through their supreme wisdom. The spiritual DNA of the land vibrates in the heart and spirit of one who holds Indigenous knowledge in his/her spiritual bundle.
Lynn Gehl’s Abstract:
What Indigenous Knowledge Offers Human Beings
Indigenous knowledge (IK) is a complete knowledge system that began with a dream and of course our own Creation Story. IK also includes processes and practices of gaining knowledge, and processes and practices of disseminating knowledge. Fundamentally, though, IK is a relationship that relies on individual agency and responsibility and values that morals exist before other knowledge. It is in these ways that IK is more than “Elderism” and a collection of stock stories that need to be remembered. Through the method of personal storytelling I will share aspects of the Anishinaabeg Creation Story, and the Sacred Pipe and the knowledge inherent. I gained this knowledge from listening to knowledge holders, reading appropriate literature, and from deep critical thinking introspections. My goal in this talk is to provide an IK framework for people to perceive through as they continue to learn more about the importance of the valuing the sacred versus destructive economics.
Lindsay Lambert’s Abstract:
Understanding Who Holds the Deeds to the Islands
Driven by the need for fairness, social justice, and the need for humans to honour the sacred Lindsay will share what he has come to know about who has jurisdiction of Chaudière, Albert, and Victoria Islands. In his search for deeper understanding his ongoing research encompasses archival documents obtained from the National Archives of Canada, 2015 through 2017 Service Ontario Land Registry Records, 2015 through 2017 Region 03 Assessment Rolls for property tax, as well as other government sources. The knowledge that he will share also emerges from his first person experience as an appellant with the Ontario Municipal Board regarding the City of Ottawa’s re-zoning of the Islands for the purpose of Windmill’s project slated for the Islands.
Randy Boswell’s Abstract:
Falls from Grace: The Dual Desecration of the Chaudière Falls
Nineteenth-century Ottawa-Hull witnessed the dual desecration of the Chaudière Falls at the heart of Anishinàbeg Aki. For millennia, the falls were both a wondrous natural phenomenon and an important Indigenous spiritual site — the central feature of a richly layered cultural landscape along the Ottawa River that included bountiful food and stone-tool resources, as well as an important and enduring burial place at the present shoreline site of the Canadian Museum of History. But Euro-Canadian settlement of the Ottawa River region after 1800 marginalized the resident Algonquin people and put the falls under the yoke of industry — a lumber trade deemed vital not only for the growth of the city that became Canada’s capital, but also for the eventual realization of a transcontinental nation. The waterfall’s sacred history was obscured — though not forgotten — and the associated burial site repeatedly disturbed, even as the sawmills powered by the Chaudière’s raging waters generated so much wood waste that it sparked Canada’s first major industrial pollution controversy in 1866.
Chi-Miigwetch