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SUMMARY:Nêhiyaw (Cree) Syllabics & Decolonizing Archives: Continuing the Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a conversation about Nêhiyaw Syllabics and 
 archival decolonization\, hosted by Victoria University Library (Toronto). 
 We aim to use the Nêhiyaw Syllabics as a case study related to the broader 
 topic of decolonizing settler archives. Our panel includes Indigenous 
 studies scholar and archivist Carmen Miedema and researcher Samara mîkiwin 
 Harp. \n\nThe syllabics are a Nêhiyaw (Cree) language system of writing 
 that uses symbols to represent syllables. We will discuss Nêhiyaw early 
 and original accounts of how the syllabary was given to the community as a 
 sacred gift. In addition\, we will discuss accounts that credit James Evans 
 with developing the syllabary. The James Evans fonds at Victoria University 
 Library currently houses syllabics and copies of a printed Nêhiyaw 
 syllabic hymn book. Materials from the Evans fonds are available online. 
 \n\nTo provide background information and allow for an informed 
 conversation\, please review the following sources prior to the event: 
 \n\nRequired Readings:\n\n\n	Harp\, Samara mîkiwin. “Origins of Cree 
 Syllabics.” Library and Archives Canada Blog\, March 9\, 
 2023.\n	Mediema\, Carmen. Building bridges: dismantling eurocentrism in 
 archives and respecting Indigenous ways of doing it right. Review chapter 
 3: “Transforming Eurocentrism in the Archives.”\n	Wheeler\, Winona 
 [published as Stevenson\, Winona]. “Calling Badger and the Symbols of the 
 Spirit Languages: The Cree Origins of the Syllabic System.” Oral History 
 Forum\, 19-20 (1999-2000): 19-4.\n\n\n \n\nSupplementary 
 Readings:\n\n\n	Steering Committee on Canada’s Archives. 
 “Reconciliation Framework: The Response to the Report of the Truth and 
 Reconciliation Commission Taskforce.” Review (at minimum) the 
 “Reconciliation Framework at a Glance” on page 17.\n	Thompson\, 
 Samantha\, Veleda Goulden\, Tawa Ducheneaux\, and Arthur Amiotte. "Your 
 Friend\, Standing Bear." Peeling the Past blog [Region of Peel 
 Archives].\n\n\nIn a spirit of reconciliation and learning\, this event is 
 part of a series of conversations presented by Victoria University Library 
 on Indigenous-Settler Collections and Relations: A Learning Series at 
 Victoria University. Participants will engage with significant 
 nineteenth-century archival documents and rare books associated with 
 Indigenous-settler relations in Canada and at Victoria 
 University.\n\nPanelists Bio:\n\n\n	Carmen Miedema is a Nêhiyaw woman and 
 mother of four from the Peepeekisis Cree Nation in Southern Saskatchewan. 
 Carmen worked as a Digital Archive Assistant at the NCTR where she 
 concentrated predominantly on the care of the Centre’s material object 
 collections. Carmen holds a B.A. (Hons) in History and Anthropology from 
 Brandon University\; a M.A. in Archival Studies from the University of 
 Manitoba\, and is in the fourth year of her Ph.D. program through the 
 Indigenous Studies department at the University of Manitoba. Her master’s 
 thesis looked at the need for settler archives to build relationships with 
 Indigenous communities\, and how relationships have the potential to 
 benefit not only the archives but more importantly\, the 
 communities.\n	Samara mîkiwin Harp was an archivist with the Listen\, Hear 
 Our Voices initiative at Library and Archives Canada. She now works in 
 Woods Cree language revitalization and is further pursuing archival 
 studies. Samara grew up in Winnipeg\, Manitoba\, with Cree roots in both 
 the Southend and Pelican Narrows areas of Treaty 6 in northern 
 Saskatchewan. The first of her father’s family arrived in Ontario in the 
 1800s from Ireland and England.\n\n\nNote: this is an online event that 
 starts on the hour (not 10 minutes after the hour). A link for the session 
 will be sent to you upon registration. The event is not limited to 
 Victoria/U of T affiliated persons.
LOCATION:St. George (Downtown) Campus
ORGANIZER;CN="Colin Deinhardt":MAILTO:colin.deinhardt@utoronto.ca
CATEGORIES:Rare Books & Special Collections
CONTACT;CN="Colin Deinhardt":MAILTO:colin.deinhardt@utoronto.ca
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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URL:https://libcal.library.utoronto.ca/calendar/libraryworkshops/nehiyawsyllabics2023
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