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Responsibilities Wayne , Carolyn , Daniel

Responsibilities Wayne , Carolyn , Daniel. June 1 – June 17 Let’s see if we can meet on morning of June 17 to report findings with each other. Recruitment Focus Wayne : Team Coordinator. Get info from Acadia 2 pager for Pow Wows Poster for Pow Wows Prepare Contact Sheet

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Responsibilities Wayne , Carolyn , Daniel

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  1. ResponsibilitiesWayne, Carolyn, Daniel June 1 – June 17 Let’s see if we can meet on morning of June 17 to report findings with each other

  2. Recruitment FocusWayne: Team Coordinator • Get info from Acadia • 2 pager for Pow Wows • Poster for Pow Wows • Prepare Contact Sheet • Contact Pow Wow Organizers • Contact possible billet opportunities • Description of Naming Contest • Description of Logo Contest • Prepare Box • Talk to James about Prizes • Debrief after 1st workshop with James

  3. Meetings we need to organize (Carolyn/Cynthia) • June 22? Hopefully to include, in addition to usual, Gerald Gloade, Don Julien, and/or Tim Bernard • With Colin Bernhardt and Michael Bawtree • With Sarah Lougheed (about recruitment, as per David’s recommendation at Wednesday’s meeting)

  4. Success Workshops Wayne: • Get information, meet with Acadia people about current success workshops Carolyn & Daniel: • Research other universities’ Canada culturally-based academic success workshops • Identify and Prepare document of Best Practices

  5. Website (Daniel) • Refine layout • Start collecting content for the different sections on the website • On basis of comparative research of other universities, prepare draft welcome message • Take photos on trip to Pow-wows for webpage

  6. Comparative Research, Best Practices report (Daniel) • Continue looking at every campus Aboriginal Gathering Space, Presidents’ reports, Native Studies programs • Prepare comparative best practices report • Include quotations • Include URLS • Report with specific recommendations to inform the priorities we’ve established

  7. Calendar (Carolyn) • Work with James Sanford on this • Talk to James and Peter Romkey about trees for matriculation, and planting them in woods on campus and elsewhere • Follow-up with Jim Hepworth @ invitation to Shawn Atleo. • Research other universities indigenous-infused Matriculation and Orientation events • Focus on August 31-September-October months of calendar • We decided on Wednesday that perhaps we should have the mini-Powwow, our first ever on campus, to mark the official launch of the Native Resource Center at the very beginning of October during Mi’kmaq History Month, maybe even October 1st • Check with Marlene Martin and Jim Hepworth and Don at CMM, Carolyn about best dates given other events • Start talking with local communities, schools about interest in participating • Start organizing first months of calendar in detail • Interaction with International student • Matriculation event • Orientation Event • On the Land retreat • Mi’kmaq History month • Mini-Powwow • Sisters in Spirit vigil • We need to work on this with CMM... Collaborate fully on everything • With Cynthia, work on trip to Arctic to participate in Youth Leadership Summit in Yukon in October...

  8. Research • We’re focusing on interdisciplinary research • We’re going to collaborate all summer • Our objective is to create a number of excellent, interdisciplinary, sometimes partnered, research grants

  9. Focus for our Research (cont’d) Given our meeting, and based on Acadia’s intellectual and other assets, the focus of our collaborative research will be: • Sustainable communities • Traditional knowledge • Healing with a focus on youth, Native women, Native men • Environmental stewardship • Traditional knowledge • Water management • Eco-tourism • Tackling the Nature Deficit Disorder (and its impact on individual and collective well-being and the very health of our local environment and the planet) • Debert Initiative • We need to learn more about this later this month • New media (a strength at Acadia) • How Aboriginal youth and Elders are reconnecting using new media (ie First Nations Help Desk) • How new media are being used by Indigenous peoples across Canada and around the world to preserve and promote language, knowledge systems, culture, and ways of being (ie. www InuitQ.ca) • Theatre and the arts in general as a pathway for healing, reconnecting with the legacies of the ancestors, reclaiming resilience, self-awareness, building relationships, nurturing understanding and developing mutual respect...

  10. Research: Theatre • Who are artists (poetry, theatre, fine art, music) in local communities, both elders and youth? Everyone to keep track of who might be interested in collaborating at some point... • Online Research relationship between theatre and healing among First Nations peoples, in Canada, New Zealand online and prepare an annotated bibliography: Carolyn • Online Research literature on theatre and addictions among Aboriginal peoples: Wayne • Online Research theatre and healing among youth (Daniel), among girls (Carolyn), among residential school survivors • Research Aboriginal Theatre companies in Canada (Daniel), • Research relationship between theatre and environmentalism (cynthia) • Mi’kmaq, the healing tense...(Carolyn), find the book that Marilyn Iwama wrote with Murdena Marshall about this... • Contact Orin Dash (Daniel), • Organize follow-up meeting with Michael and Colin and Orin later in June, if possible, perhaps 15 June??

  11. Environmental Stewardship • Investigate environmental concerns related to water (ie. Ground water contamination) among local communities—we’ll talk to Don • Identify other environmental concerns of local communities (Everyone to do this whenever possible) • Explore Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Mi’kmaq in comparative context (of other FN Peoples) (Daniel) • Ie. Identify what Doug Knockwood, Albert and MurdenaMarhsall have written, speeches they’ve given • Read the Indigenous Flora document (Dalhousie) • Everyone to skim • Indigenous Flora on Campus: A Feasibility Study • File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick Viewby J Rodewald - Cited by 1 - Related articlesnatural landscape with native species on Dalhousie campus. ..... having indigenous plants on campus. Sixty-one percent of students answered yes to ...flora on campus, we first had to decide on an area that would serve as a hypothetical ...environmental.science.dal.ca/Files/.../indigenous.pdf • Research, identify key Mi’kmaq ideas, legends related to environmental stewardship (Carolyn, Daniel) • Skim & learn more about Two Eyed Seeing thoroughly – Everyone • Go here: http://www.integrativescience.ca/People/Director/

  12. Debert (at our next meeting, June 22?) • Continue learning about Debert • Explore research on Native interpretive cultural centers and archeological sites (Blackfoot—Glenbow Museum) • Explore research on theatre and Aboriginal interpretive cultural centers • Identify youth engagement and Aboriginal interpretive cultural centers

  13. Pillars • Clarify concept of Pillars • Founder • SAGE • Senior SAGE in Residence • Eagles in Residence • First Nations Students Association • Academic Advisor • Counsellor

  14. External Research Funding (Carolyn) • Research Funding Opportunities • Organization • Focus • Application • deadlines • Create calendar of research funding deadlines...we don’t want to miss any opportunity

  15. External Funding (Wayne) • Identify private sector funding opportunities • Prepare a draft powerpoint presentation which we can show to prospective funders • Prepare a 2 page hardcopy handout of funding opportunities which we can share • Prepare a draft cover letter/email which we can send • Prepare a draft follow-up letter/email which we can send after we make contact with someone...

  16. Alumnae • Everyone to start identifying Mi’kmaq alumnae • Work with James Sanford • On article idea for fall Alumnae Bulletin • To contact alumnae to inform them of what we’re doing • First quick options that cynthia knows about: • Mary Nicholas, Pictou Landing • Brian Smith, Hantsport • Orin Dash, Halifax • Don’s 2 sons • Ryan Francis, Fredericton • Daniel...you’ve mentioned a few cousins? • Innu, Inuit: • Mike Batchelor • Stephanie Gilbert • Letia Cousins • ...are more, but this is first start...

  17. Current students • Wayne—go back to your fall email to find emails of students who self-identified as First Nations...or see James • Follow-up with Brittany, let her know what we’re doing, invite her to join us for tea sometime this spring/summer • Follow-up with Will, have a chat...

  18. Anything else we missed?Ideas? Deadlines?

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