I’VE BEEN APPROACHED IN THE COURTROOM and asked whether I was the Native Courtworker. I replied, “No. I’m a Native lawyer. Can I help you?” (“Story of an Indigenous Woman Lawyer” as read by barbara findlay in But I Was Wearing a Suit (2018) at 10:16)
ON WORLD TB DAY, MONDAY, MARCH 24, 2025, WE REMEMBER there are people in First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities who still develop the world’s deadliest infectious disease—tuberculosis (TB) disease—and many more that who carry the TB infection, even while Canada has some of the lowest rates of TB in the world.
A KEYWORD SEARCH FOR “INDIGENOUS WOMEN” AND “INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY” brings a lot of good reading to your browser. Here’s just a handful of organizations with messages, activities, images, words, resources, and offers to celebrate and honour Indigenous women and gender-diverse people on IWD March 8, 2025.
LU’MA NATIVE HOUSING SOCIETY AND SWAHILI VISION INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION operate a 96-unit residential building in New Westminster to provide safe, affordable housing for Indigenous and Black Elders and families.
PROCLAIMING OUR ROOTS is a project “aimed at honoring the histories, realities, stories and experiences of people who are of African diasporic and Indigenous ancestry, and who reside on Turtle Island.”
THE BLACK AND INDIGENOUS SOLIDARITY PROGRAM (BIS) of Indigenous Youth Roots (IYR), a national, Indigenous, youth-led organization, will take place in Toronto from the last week of March to the first week of May 2025.
McNally Robinson Booksellers in Winnipeg will be hosting the launch for the second edition of Elements of Indigenous Style. The event will also be streamed on McNally Robinson’s YouTube channel.
ANISHINAABE AND DAKOTA TRADITIONAL TEACHINGS ABOUT HEALTHY LIVING adorn the sides of buses in Brandon, Dauphin, Portage la Prairie, Selkirk, and Winnipeg as part of the Southern Chiefs’ Organization Inc.’s multi-media “Healthy Living Campaign”.
VANIER SCHOLAR JAMEY JESPERSON, A UVIC PHD CANDIDATE IN HISTORY AND CSPT, “specializes in trans histories of Indigenous and colonial North America, with a regional focus on the Pacific coast.”
NINETY MINUTES NORTHWEST OF THE GREATER TORONTO AREA AT BOBCAYGEON, “a group of Settlers living in the Kawarthas on Michi Saagiig Anishinaabe Territory … are learning about Truth & Reconciliation and have a sincere desire to make some positive contributions to promote awareness to other settlers in our community.”