Chelsea Vowel: Administrative categories of Indigenous Peoples in Canada (Métis perspective)

Overview

Delivery method

Virtual classroom

Duration

1.5 h

Audience

Employees

Executives

Managers

Description

This event is part of the ISAO Speaker Series.

Chelsea Vowel is Métis from manitow-sâkahikan (Lac Ste. Anne) Alberta, residing in amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton). Parent to six children, she has a BEd, LLB, and MA.

Chelsea is a nêhiyawêwin (Cree) language instructor, public intellectual, writer, and activist educator whose work intersects language, gender, Métis self-determination, and resurgence. Author of Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada, and the short-story collection Buffalo is the New Buffalo, she and her co-host Molly Swain produce the Indigenous feminist sci-fi podcast Métis in Space and co-founded the Métis in Space Land Trust.

This event will cover “Administrative Categories of Indigenous Peoples in Canada” from a Métis perspective. In light of the growing public awareness of ethnic fraud, this event will explore and debunk misconceptions of “mixedness” while also learning more about who the Métis people truly are.