The Brief: Vanessa Watts and Katelyn LaForme on truth and reconciliation
This week on The Brief, Firdose Khan explores what truth and reconciliation can look like at McMaster and across Hamilton.
First, The Silhouette News Editor Zayn Brar speaks with Vanessa Watts, Associate Professor in Indigenous Studies and Sociology at McMaster University, about the Re-Neighbouring project. Watts discusses how the project brings Inuit and Haudenosaunee communities back into relationship through research, education, archival work and material culture, while centring Indigenous authority over histories and records that directly affect their communities.
The conversation also…
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