‘Our words are power’: Connecticut indigenous women writers to talk about culture and representation in Arts & Ideas event Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant
Indigenous women writers representing all five of Connecticut’s tribes will get together virtually to chat about writing, culture and representation on June 3, in an event presented by the International Festival of Arts and Ideas. The writers who will participate in the virtual talk use their writing to tell stories of indigenous culture in the past and in the present.
To gain access to the free event, which starts at 5 p.m., visit artidea.org/event/2021/4467. The event is curated by Dr. Siohban Senier of the University of New Hampshire, who edits “Dawnland Voices,” an online publication dedicated to New England Native Americans. In advance of the event, we talk to four writers about their work and lives and why it is important that indigenous voices be heard.
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UNDRIP ready for the next step as Bill C-15 passes May 25, 2021
OTTAWA Almost 14 years after the United Nations adopted a framework establishing the rights of Indigenous people, Canada is finally on the brink of implementing the historic document.
Despite concerns being raised by some opposition MPs over exactly what adopting the United Nations’ Declaration on Indigenous Rights (UNDRIP) will mean legally, the minority Liberal government, with the aid of the NDP and Bloc Quebecois, passed Bill C-15 by a 210-118 margin on May 25. It now goes to the Senate for final approval.
Bill C-15, “An Act respecting the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,” forces the federal government to bring all of Canada’s laws into line with the UNDRIP. This is the second time since the United Nations passed the non-binding declaration in September 2007 that Ottawa moved to fold the UNDRIP principles into Canadian law. A 2018 private member’s bill died in t