A Day in the Life of Indigenous Students: Companion Resource Guide

Concordia grads Kahentawaks (BFA 20) and Wennekerakon Tiewishaw (BA 18) make video games rooted in Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk) culture, stories, and language and create create interactive language revitalization software

Concordia Applied Human Sciences graduate Nakuset is the Director of the award-winning Native Women's Shelter of Montreal, co-manager of Resilience Montreal and Indigenous columnist on MaTV Citylife. She  was featured by the Gazette as a Montrealer to Watch in 2021, sat down for virtual Coffee and Confession with an Eastern Door reporter in January, and is the subject of the recent Sixties Scoop documentary Becoming Nakuset.

“[Concordia Fine Artst Student] Jason Sikoak said motivation for Nuliajuk design was to recover what was lost..He said he chose to carve Nuliajuk because of the story’s prevalence throughout Inuit Nunanga...On Sikoak’s coin, Nuliajuk is illustrated with seals emerging from her severed fingers. She is holding her braids as they are strewn across the bottom of the ocean...Sikoak grew up in Rigolet, a fly-in community in Labrador, and a part of Nunatsiavut. He only became a full-time artist a few years ago, but has been practising his craft since he was a child.” Photo courtesy of the artist

Otsenhákta - safety and openness - was exactly the feeling Human Environment student Valerie Karonhiatakwen Gabriel wanted to share with her fellow students when she entered the contest aimed at choosing a new name for the Aboriginal Student Resource Centre.

Kanienʼkehá꞉ka-led news sources like the Eastern Door and Iorì:wase, started by journalism grad Greg Horn, enrich media scene of Kahnawake, Que.

Article by Ka’nhehsí:io Deer covering Concordia graduate student Autumn Godwin's creation of the Buckskin Babes Collective, a group that organizes Moose Hide Tannings, throughout Montreal.

“They were asking specifically about history and forgotten stories, and that’s my favorite field,” explained Ange Loft, a Concordia grad and multidisciplinary artist.

Kahnawa’kehró:non Owen Skahionwiio Mayo, father of three and First Peoples Studies student at Concordia is one of the many frustrated community members looking for housing solutions within Kahnawake. The situation stems from a larger issue with systemic housing insecurity in Onkwehón:we communities across the country.

An article written by Concordia student Ben Mulchinock regarding the outdated and racist language used in museums to discuss Indigenous cultures in and around Montreal.

Concordia Student Craig Commanda is an Algonquin Anishinaabe multidisciplinary artist from Kitigan Zibi who works through still and moving images, poetry, music, beadwork, and sound composition.

Featuring Wahéhshon Shiann Whitebean, recent Concordia Graduate and author of the Indigenous Elders Protocol, on her current PhD research at McGill on Indian Day Schools.

The June 28 2021 Google Doodle was designed by artist and Concordia alumna Star Horn.

Describes how Indigenous youth are using skateboards to educate about colonialism and to reclaim their lands and featuring Concordia student Dustin Henry.

Over the past decade, Concordia University has seen a small but steady rise in the number of Indigenous graduates. Musicians, historians and public policy experts are part of the latest crop.

Kanien'kehá:ka student Brandon Mountour, majoring in Poli Sci and Sociolog, joined the prestigious Garnet Key Society and strives to use his passion for law and government to advocate for justice in Indigenous affairs.

Charles Bender est un Huron-Wendat de Wendake. Comédien diplômé du programme d’interprétation de Concordia, il est connu des téléspectateurs pour des rôles dans Destinées, Les rescapés et Le gentleman (notamment).

Concordia alumnus Jules Koostachin, now a successful filmmaker, recalls difficult education experience that inspired her to push for a national monument to Shannen Koostachin, the young Cree activist who fought for better schools for First Nations children.

Featuring Concordia Alumni Megan Kanerahtenhawi Whyte, sexual health education organizer and leader