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How to Create an Indigenous University - Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair

When:
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
2:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Where:
Mackintosh-Corry Hall
Room: B125 Lecture Theatre (within the B176 suite of offices)
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Speaks: Cultural Studies Speakers' Series
How to Create an Indigenous University
Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair
Department of Native Studies, University of Manitoba

Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair is Anishinaabe (St. Peter's/Little Peguis) and an Assistant Professor at the University of Manitoba. He obtained his BA in Education at the University of Winnipeg, before completing an MA in Native- and African-American literatures at the University of Oklahoma, and a PhD in First Nations and American Literatures from the University of British Columbia. He is a regular commentator on Indigenous issues on CTV, CBC, and APTN, and his written work can be found in the pages of The Exile Edition of Native Canadian Fiction and Drama, newspapers like The Guardian, and online with CBC Books: Canada Writes. Niigaan is the co-editor of the award-winning Manitowapow: Aboriginal Writings from the Land of Water (Highwater Press, 2011) and Centering Anishinaabeg Studies: Understanding the World Through Stories (Michigan State University Press, 2013), and is the Editorial Director of The Debwe Series with Portage and Main Press. 

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