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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">The Blanket Exercise includes points of reference about the historical and contemporary relationship between Indigenous populations and the imposed colonial systems in Canada. This activity takes
us through a historical timeline of events that have social, political, economic and racial identity implications on Indigenous populations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">The activity will involve the participants positioned on blankets laid out on the floor that represent the land of ‘Turtle Island’ (North America). The participants will play the role of the original
peoples of the upper portion of Turtle Island, now known as Canada. Two facilitators will read the script, one will be the narrator and the other will play the part of the European colonizer imposing various laws and appropriating the lands throughout the
activity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">WHEN: </span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">July 20, 12:30 to 2:30PM<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">WHERE: </span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Needles Hall, room 3047<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;text-transform:uppercase">Register</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;text-transform:uppercase">:</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">
<a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/indigenization-strategy/calls-action/blanket-exercise">
https://uwaterloo.ca/indigenization-strategy/calls-action/blanket-exercise</a> or email
<a href="mailto:k23davis@uwaterloo.ca">k23davis@uwaterloo.ca</a> <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Please join us for this intellectual and emotional activity that serves to provide an account of historical events that are rarely taught currently in educational institutions across Turtle Island.
Being informed is a key step towards reconciliation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Bradley Hand ITC";color:#7030A0">Ganohkwe:sra (Kindest regards)</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Bradley Hand ITC";color:#7030A0"> </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Bradley Hand ITC";color:#7030A0">Heyo:te’dok –
</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Adobe Devanagari",serif;color:#002060">Traditional Haudenosaunee name which translates to ‘Rites of Passage – Edge of the Field before the Forest’</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-family:"Adobe Devanagari",serif;color:#1F497D">Cayuga Nation Wolf Clan of the Haudenosaunee/Six Nations of the Grand River Territory</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-family:"Adobe Devanagari",serif;color:#002060"> </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Bradley Hand ITC";color:#7030A0">Kelly Fran Davis</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Bradley Hand ITC";color:#1F497D">,
</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Adobe Devanagari",serif;color:#1F497D">B.Ed.<b> Aboriginal Adult Education</b></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Indigenization Strategy Research and Administrative Coordinator</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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