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The University of British Columbia
Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre & Department of Educational Studies
Book Launch
Dr. Georgina Martin
Drumming Our Way Home:
Intergenerational Learning, Teaching, and Indigenous Ways of Knowing
(UBC Press, 2024)
Friday, November 15, 2024, 3:00-5:00PM PST
Location:
Gallery, Indian Residential School Historical and Dialogue Centre.
1985 Learners’ Walk, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Programme
3:00PM – Opening in a good way
- Elder Jean William (Secwépemc Nation)
3:15PM – Welcoming:
- Tricia Logan, Assistant Professor
Interim Academic Director, Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre & School of Public Policy and Global Affairs
- Jan Hare, Professor & Dean, Faculty of Education, UBC
3:30PM – Foregrounding the book:
- Jo-ann Archibald Q’um Q’um Xiiem
Professor Emeritus, UBC; Chancellor, University of the Fraser Valley
3:45PM – Presentation of the Book:
- Georgina Martin
Vancouver Island University
- Elder Jean William
- Youth Colton Wycotte
4:15PM – Discussants:
- Margaret Kovach, Professor, Department of Educational Studies
- Dustin Louie, Associate Professor & Director, Indigenous Teacher Education Program (NITEP) & Department of Educational Studies
4:45PM – Questions from the audience
5:00PM – Closure:
- Tricia Logan, Assistant Professor
Interim Academic Director, Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre & School of Public Policy and Global Affairs
Book: https://www.ubcpress.ca/drumming-our-way-home
Drumming Our Way Home: Intergenerational learning, teaching, and Indigenous ways of knowing has two primary purposes: First, our stories can assist educators, policymakers, and the public to understand the effects of our embodied lived experiences as Indigenous people, especially residential school trauma and its intergenerational legacies. By understanding our lives, educators can more effectively intervene in cycles of marginalization and cultural alienation and policymakers may come to a better understanding of how policy impacts Indigenous lives. Second, the book will help other Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples of all backgrounds as they embark on their own identity journey.
Bio:
Weyt-kp xwexwéytp (formal hello to everyone). Dr. Georgina Martin is Secwepemc and a member of the Williams Lake First Nation (T’exelc). She was raised by her grandparents, Ned and Nancy Moiese. Dr. Martin centers Indigenous knowledge in her teaching and research methodologies at Vancouver Island University in the Indigenous/Xwulmuxw Studies program. She utilizes her lived-experience, community-based knowledge, and Indigenous ways of knowing in teaching and research.
Her research addresses the effects of intergenerational trauma caused by ‘Indian Residential Schools’ and ‘Indian hospitals’, which annexed cultural identity, Indigenous voices and education. Her strength comes from her embodied experience to reclaim space for Indigenous peoples within academia to address historical and contemporary injustices. Her book emerged from her PhD research titled “Drumming my way home: An intergenerational narrative inquiry about Secwepemc identities” that examined the stories of three generations of Secwepemc peoples to show how knowing oneself strengthens culture and identities. Through a process of storytelling she created new meanings and philosophical knowledge that privileges Secwepemc ways of knowing and being.
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