*Please note this event starts at 5:00 pm CST*

Trigger Warning: This conversation will speak about sensitive content involving the abuse of children. Wa-say Healing Centre is available to speak with those affected by this information and are available Monday-Friday 8:30am-4:30pm at 204-774-6484.

The Feast Centre’s aim of decolonizing Indigenous history and research related to sexually transmitted and blood borne infections (STBBI) will continue in this new year. This online session will explore the impact of the seven Euro-Christian churches that imposed western values on Indigenous peoples through the Indian residential and day school era. The recent visit of Pope Francis to Canada to respond to the harms and crimes perpetrated by the Roman Catholic Church against Indigenous children and their families will be the focus of this panel’s conversation. The re-emergence of Indigenous values, teachings, and life philosophy will be discussed with regard to 2Spirit/Indigenous LGBTQ people, gender-based violence, feminism, matriarchy, midwifery, gender identity, sexual health research, and reparations.

Learning Intentions:

• Participants will learn how the Canadian state and Euro-Christian churches attempted to erase the history and lives of 2Spirit/Indigenous people.
• To encourage communities, elders, leaders to begin these hard conversations.
• To unpack the history of residential schools, the trauma ensued by Indigenous children, and the generational trauma and harms that continue to this day.
• To reclaim, restore, and repair Two Spirit narratives.
• To imagine what our ancestors would say.