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<p class="MsoNormal">Please publicize this event through your networks. As this is a remote lecture, do not hesitate to invite your classes to attend.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">RE-STORYING THE MEDICINE LINE AS INDIGENOUS LAND GUARDIANSHIP<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Please use this <b><a href="https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MGY2YTYxOTQtYjkwNi00YmVjLTk5M2UtNTVkMWZlNTExZmM4%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22723a5a87-f39a-4a22-9247-3fc240c01396%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%229d279049-9fdb-472e-a89e-90d2bb60fe4a%22%2c%22IsBroadcastMeeting%22%3atrue%7d&btype=a&role=a">link </a></b>to
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<p class="MsoNormal">Native spiritual practices have always been about land. Today, First Nations groups in Canada and the US are engaged in significant political, cultural, and spiritual work to reclaim ancestral lands and their traditional roles as land guardians.
At a time of profound climate disruption and converging crises, First Nations leaders are asserting and renewing their sacred relationships with other-than-human kin like totem animals and elements like water and fire. The revitalization of land guardianship
roles and practices is often characterized as protecting the medicines of the land so that they can continue to give life to all of creation. This movement is a claim to territorial and spiritual sovereignty.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>ABOUT THE SPEAKER<br>
</b><b><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><img border="0" width="75" height="95" style="width:.7777in;height:.993in" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D7C9A6.428AB660" alt="Melissa Nelson"></span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Melissa K. Nelson</b> is an ecologist and Indigenous scholar-activist. She earned her Ph.D. in ecology at the University of California, Davis. Formerly a professor of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University, she is
now a Professor of Indigenous Sustainability at Arizona State University in the Global Futures Laboratory. She is a contributor and co-editor of <i>Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Learning from Indigenous Practices for Environmental Sustainability (</i>2018).
She is Turtle Mountain Anishinaabe/Métis.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Date/Time: </b>Friday, November 12, 2021 - 7:30pm<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Location: </b>Online<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">David Seljak<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Professor and Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Department of Religious Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Faculty of Arts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">University of Waterloo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">200 University Avenue West<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">226-747-5812 (work cell, preferred)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">519-884-8111, ext. 28232 (office)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">The University of Waterloo acknowledges that much of our work takes place on the traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee peoples. Our main campus is situated on the Haldimand
Tract, the land granted to the Six Nations that includes six miles on each side of the Grand River. Our active work toward reconciliation takes place across our campuses through research, learning, teaching, and community building, and is centralized within
our <a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/human-rights-equity-inclusion/indigenousinitiatives">
<i><span style="color:blue">Indigenous Initiatives Office</span></i></a>.</span><i><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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