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We are happy to invite you to the final Lunch and Learn of the year, Spring Season, 2026, featuring Gina Starblanket

🚨Hybrid Event

📅 Date: Friday, April 17, 2026

🕛 Time: 12 PM
📍 Location: Room 3067, Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George Street, Toronto (St. George campus)
📲 A Zoom room will be available for those attending online, request it on your registration.

🍽️ Food & beverages will be provided

This event is open to everyone

Returning to Relationality in the Study of Indigenous Political Orders

The rise of an Indigenous politics subfield within Political Science has been accompanied by increased engagement with Indigenous peoples’ own intellectual traditions and worldviews, with particular interest in their relational character. This talk offers critical provocations around the return to relationality in analyses of Indigenous governance, with a focus on the importance of Indigenous feminist and q***r interventions today.

About the presenter

Dr. Gina Starblanket is an Associate Professor in the School of Indigenous Governance at the University of Victoria. She is Cree/Saulteaux and a member of the Star Blanket Cree Nation in Treaty 4. Dr. Starblanket’s writings address Indigenous-settler relations, Indigenous movements towards political transformation, and Indigenous feminisms. She is co-editor of NAIS, the journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association and her publications include Making Space for Indigenous Feminisms, 3rd ed. (2024, Fernwood Press), Storying Violence: Unravelling Colonial Narratives in the Stanley Trial (ARP Press, 2020), and Visions of the Heart: Issues Involving Indigenous Peoples in Canada, 5th and 6th eds. (OUP, 2019 & 2025).

⤴️ Register today at ziibiinglab.org/upcoming-events

Shé:kon! 👋

Come learn your first words in Kanyen’kéha (Mohawk) and get a taste of the culture and stories embedded within the language.

Join the Indigenous Initiatives Office for an introductory language workshop with Rohahiyo Jordan Brant, Program Director at Onkwawenna Kentyohkwa. You’ll practice greetings, introductions and language history/revitalization effort.

Wednesday, Feb 11 | 12:30–2:00 PM
J125, Jackman Law
Lunch provided
RSVP by Feb 6 — scan the QR code or visit the link in bio.

Entewà:ronke'! (We will all learn the language!)

All are welcome!

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The University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) is hiring a Director, Indigenous Initiatives and Indigenous House (Req. ID: 43874) 📣

Campus: UTSC
Job Category: Full-Time, Continuing
The closing date to apply: 07/30/2025, 11:59 PM ET

Job posting: https://uoft.me/bGQ

Starting college, university, or trades this fall? 🎓

If you're First Nations, Inuit, or Métis, Building Brighter Futures can help with more than just tuition. One application could cover:

📚 School fees
🚗 Travel to and from campus
👶 Childcare
🏠 Rent & daily expenses

It’s real, flexible support — designed for Indigenous students like you. 🗓️ First deadline: August 1, 2025.

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Kieran Rice’s academic journey as a mature student has been one of growth, purpose, and connection.

Rice graduated this spring with a degree in Indigenous studies and a minor in English and creative writing. Along with numerous scholarships, Rice discovered belonging at First Nations House and also served as an executive of the Indigenous Student Association.

Come fall, he’ll return to to begin a master’s degree in creative writing.

Learn more: https://buff.ly/Hj6u7J1

‘It just didn’t feel like a reality for me’: How Devo Moosewaypayo turned a life challenge into academic opportunity – becoming one of the first in her family to graduate from university 🎓 buff.ly/WNDfgNy

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