Indigenous Speakers Series presents Jean Teillet, Dec. 2

[Wendy Philpott]

Mark your calendar for Dec. 2 at lunchtime and please join the fall Indigenous Speakers Series event featuring Jean Teillet, lawyer, author, teacher and artist — and the great grandniece of Louis Riel.

[A picture containing text  Description automatically generated]
WHEN: Thursday, December 2, 12 PM to 1PM
WHERE: Teams livestream link<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_Y2ZlZWQ5YTAtYjBkOS00YTBjLTlkNWYtYTI2ODM2ZGMwZjFi%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22723a5a87-f39a-4a22-9247-3fc240c01396%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22d08d8851-fe2b-4817-a6ed-31358e450e86%22%2c%22IsBroadcastMeeting%22%3atrue%7d&btype=a&role=a> (no registration required)
MORE EVENT DETAILS: Indigenous Speakers Series presents Jean Teillet<https://uwaterloo.ca/arts/events/indigenous-speakers-series-presents-jean-teillet>

About Jean Teillet and the event:
Jean Teillet<https://pstlaw.ca/jean-teillet/> is Senior Counsel with Pape Salter Teillet LLP who has long been engaged in negotiations and litigation with provincial and federal governments concerning Métis and First Nation land rights, harvesting rights and self-government. She is the great grandniece of Louis Riel and recently published The North-West is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel’s People, the Métis Nation<http://www.harpercollins.ca/9781443450126/the-north-west-is-our-mother/>, which was listed as one of the Globe & Mail’s top 100 books of 2019.

In her Indigenous Speakers Series appearance, Jean will share stories from the process of writing The North-West is Our Mother; and will discuss who the Métis people are, where they are, and what is happening in the community today and into the future. Her talk will be followed by a moderated Q and A.


Wendy Philpott
Communication Manager
Dean of Arts Office, Faculty of Arts
University of Waterloo
uwaterloo.ca/arts<https://uwaterloo.ca/arts/> | read our stories<https://uwaterloo.ca/news/arts>
With gratitude and respect, I live and work on traditional territory of ‎the Neutral, Anishinaabeg, and Haudenosaunee peoples. The University of Waterloo is situated on the Haldimand Tract, the land promised to the Six Nations that includes six miles on each side of the Grand River. The University's actions toward reconciliation are guided by the Office of Indigenous Relations<https://uwaterloo.ca/indigenous>.



-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://artsservices.uwaterloo.ca/pipermail/artsannounce/attachments/20211117/092f12f7/attachment.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image001.png
Type: image/png
Size: 330553 bytes
Desc: image001.png
URL: <http://artsservices.uwaterloo.ca/pipermail/artsannounce/attachments/20211117/092f12f7/attachment.png>