Friday, June 11th, 2021 08:30-10:00 PST / 09:30-11:00 MST/CST / 10:30-12:00 CDT / 11:30-13:00 EST / 17:30-19:00 CEST:

“Because we need each other”: A Roundtable on Black-Indigenous Solidarities

Tasha Beeds is an Indigenous scholar of nêhiyaw, Scottish-Metis, and Bajan ancestry from the Métis and Treaty 6 territories of Saskatchewan. She activates as a mama, a kôhkom, a poet, a Water Walker, and a Midewiwin from Minweyweywigaan Lodge.  Tasha’s collective work highlights and celebrates Indigeneity while promoting Indigenous nationhood and sovereignty. She further advocates for active care and protection of the land and waters based on carrying ancestral legacies forward for future generations. Tasha was recently invited to return for a second year as the Ron Ianni Fellow at the University of Windsor’s Faculty of Law where she is teaching with the Indigenous Legal Orders Institute on many of the themes reflected in her life work. She was also selected as a Na’ah Illahee Sovereign Futures Indigenous Environmental Leader. She will be Walking for the Water for Junction Creek in Sudbury and for the Saskatchewan River for a total of 2000 kms, activating her late teacher and mentor Josephine-Ba Mandamin’s legacy.