*All registrants will be provided with a link to the recording of the main presentation and slides following the session. The recording will be available for 60 days.
Join us for this two-and-a-half-hour workshop as we introduce and explore Listening to Indigenous Voices: A Dialogue Guide on Justice and Right Relationships. ‘LTIV’ explores Indigenous worldviews, examines the history of colonization in Canada, and reflects upon righting relationships, decolonization, and indigenization.
This resource was produced by the Jesuit Forum for Social Faith and Justice in partnership with Indigenous people and in the spirit of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action. It features reflections from Indigenous authors such as Arthur Manuel, Beverly Jacobs, Lee Maracle, Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, Sylvia McAdam Saysewahum, John Borrows, and Robin Wall Kimmerer, along with works from a variety of Indigenous artists including Christi Belcourt, Diane Montreuil and Kent Monkman.
Listening to Indigenous Voices arose through the partnership led by the Jesuit Forum on Social Faith & Justice and many Indigenous and non-Indigenous partners, including Jayce Chiblow, a member of the Garden River First Nation, Novalis Publishing, KAIROS Canada, Centre Justice et Foi, and through the advice of an extensive advisory circle, including Marie Wilson, former Commissioner, Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.
During the first part of the workshop, Noah MacDonald and Trevor Scott SJ will give us an overview of the LTIV guide and how it can help us engage in dialogue, growth and change in the spirit of the TRC - all the while enacting justice and right relationships from the visions, stories, and words of Indigenous artists and knowledge keepers
After the overview, the presenters will focus on Session 3 of the guide:
Small breakout groups will follow the large group presentation. We will explore such questions as:
About the Jesuit Forum for Social Faith and Justice
The Jesuit Forum for Social Faith and Justice is a social and ecological justice organization of the Jesuits of Canada. It strives to intellectually engage all peoples of all faiths and backgrounds in reflection, discernment, and willingness to share upon the realities and issues of our time for the purpose of more just societies in reverence for our Creator and all of Creation.
About the Presenters
NOAH MACDONALD is an Anishinaabe PhD Student and Canon Lawyer belonging to Michipicoten First Nation. He works with the Toronto Regional Tribunal at the Archdiocese of Toronto. His research at Regis College (University of Toronto) aims to explore “Paths Towards an Indigenized Ecclesiological Framework: Listening to the Voices of Indigenous Catholics and Turtle Island Theologians to Shape Reform in Canada”.
TREVOR SCOTT SJ is a member of the Canadian Province of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). Trevor is the Director of the Jesuit Forum for Social Faith and Justice in Toronto. He also teaches at the University of Toronto’s Regis College as a sessional professor focusing upon the relationship of Ignatian spirituality and contemporary culture.
Session 1: Settler Colonialism 101
Introduce ENGO representatives to the fact that colonization is a structure and not an event. Identifies key ways that colonialism moves through individuals and organizations.
Session 2: Positionality
ENGO representatives learn how to articulate their social location within a settler colonial state, and in relation to potential Indigenous partners.
Session 3: Inherent Indigenous Governance 101
Introduce the fact that Indigenous nations have their own sources of political authority that they can (and do) draw on when addressing environmental issues. Examples provided.
Session 4: Building Better Relations
ENGO representatives will road test ways they can implement previous workshop key points to re-imagine partnerships with Indigenous nations.
Cost: $100 (or register 4 staff from the same organization for one stream and get the 5th registration free)
All registrants will be provided with a link to access the recordings and presentation slides for 60 days following each session.
Session 1: Diagnosing Settler Colonialism in the Enviro Sector
Participants will be asked to share ways in which they have diagnosed and traced power in social justice movements and/or in the ENGO sector. This workshop will make space for discomfort as part of promoting decolonization.
Session 2: Inherent Indigenous Governance
A mix of advanced and introductory theory, this workshop delves into legal and political pluralism, naming the fact that Indigenous nations have their own sources of political authority that they can (and do) draw on when addressing environmental issues.
Session 3: The Nonprofit Industrial Complex
ENGO participants are introduced to theories and examples describing the Nonprofit Industrial Complex and the “Shadow State.” Purpose is to show how settler colonialism structures civil society.
Session 4: Decolonizing ENGO-First Nation Partnerships
This workshop delves deep into how ENGOs can partner with Indigenous nations beyond the Nonprofit Industrial Complex while promoting deference to inherent Indigenous political leaders.
Cost: $100 (or register 4 staff from the same organization for one stream and get the 5th registration free)
All registrants will be provided with a link to access the recordings and presentation slides for 60 days following each session.
The Indigenous only space will be collaborative in nature but critical in approach. This track is a space for Indigenous folks within the ENGO sector to come together to discuss their experiences and work, with an eye to taking a position on what the sector might need to do in order to promote decolonization. Participants will use the first session to define our goals for the remaining three meetings. Therefore, session topics named here are proposals only.
Session 1: Naming the Cannibal: Settler Colonialism in the ENGO Sector
Session 2: Proposed topic: Reflections on working in the ENGO Sector
Session 3: Proposed topic: Centering Indigenous Thought in the ENGO Sector
Session 4: Proposed topic: Visioning a Decolonial Environmental Sector
Cost: Free
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