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First Nation Public Library Week | Elder's Panel - Remembering Community Lifestyles: Partnerships and Alliances
As part of First Nation Public Library Week, the Ontario Library Service is providing free programming during the week of October 2 - 6.
SKAÍHWA’T | DGOGAABWI | STANDING TOGETHER
The 2023 theme describes the act of coming together as one group to understand and support each other. The act of solidarity is described in three languages:
- SKAÍHWA’T - Mohawk - the concept of consensus on one matter, standing together
- DGOGAABWI - Anishinaabemowin - stand with others, participate with others
- STANDING TOGETHER - English
Kitchener Public Library will be screening these pre-recorded events and providing space for engaging with them.
Elder's Panel: "Remembering Community Lifestyles: Partnerships and Alliances"
This informal session brings together three First Nation people to recollect ways Indigenous communities have collaborated to ensure cultures and traditions continue to thrive.
Complementing the theme, "SKAÍHWA’T | DGOGAABWI | STANDING TOGETHER" this informal chat highlights the uniqueness of each First Nation's customs, community history, changes, and the library's role in supporting partnerships and alliances.
First Nation Public Library Week | First Nation Communities READ Authors Panel
As part of First Nation Public Library Week, the Ontario Library Service is providing free programming during the week of October 2 - 6.
SKAÍHWA’T | DGOGAABWI | STANDING TOGETHER
The 2023 theme describes the act of coming together as one group to understand and support each other. The act of solidarity is described in three languages:
- SKAÍHWA’T - Mohawk - the concept of consensus on one matter, standing together
- DGOGAABWI - Anishinaabemowin - stand with others, participate with others
- STANDING TOGETHER - English
Kitchener Public Library will be screening these pre-recorded events and providing space for engaging with them. Links to the virtual recordings will be available on the Ontario Library Service's website.
First Nation Communities READ Authors Panel
First Nation Communities READ (FNCR) is the Ontario First Nation Public Library Community’s contribution to the reading movement. Launched in 2003 by the First Nations Public Library Community in Ontario with support from the Ontario Library Service, it promotes a community-based approach to reading.
FNCR celebrates the very best of Indigenous literature across Turtle Island. The program encourages family literacy, intergenerational storytelling as well as intergenerational knowledge transmission. FNCR also helps to increase awareness of the importance of First Nation, Metis and Inuit writing, illustration and publishing.
First Nation Public Library Week | Author Panel - Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith
As part of First Nation Public Library Week, the Ontario Library Service is providing free programming during the week of October 2 - 6.
SKAÍHWA’T | DGOGAABWI | STANDING TOGETHER
The 2023 theme describes the act of coming together as one group to understand and support each other. The act of solidarity is described in three languages:
- SKAÍHWA’T - Mohawk - the concept of consensus on one matter, standing together
- DGOGAABWI - Anishinaabemowin - stand with others, participate with others
- STANDING TOGETHER - English
Kitchener Public Library will be screening these pre-recorded events and providing space for engaging with them. Links to the virtual recordings will be available on the Ontario Library Service's website.
First Nation Communities READ Authors Panel
Christine Miskonoodinkwe-Smith is a Saulteaux woman from Peguis First Nation and the author of “These Are the Stories: Memories of a 60s Scoop Survivor” published by Kegedonce Press in December 2021. She is an author, editor, writer, and journalist who graduated from the University of Toronto with a specialization in Aboriginal Studies in June 2011 and went on to receive her Master’s in Education in Social Justice in June 2017.
Her first non-fiction story “Choosing the Path to Healing” appeared in the 2006 anthology Growing Up Girl: An Anthology of Voices from Marginalized Spaces. She has written for the Native Canadian, Anishinabek News, Windspeaker, FNH Magazine, New Tribe Magazine, Muskrat Magazine and the Piker Press. She collected and edited 17 Sixties Scoop Survivor stories and the anthology “Silence to Strength” was just released October 31, 2022. She has also co-edited the anthology Bawaajigan with fellow Indigenous writer Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler, is currently working on a YA Novel and thinking of her next project.
