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SUMMARY:Genocide\, Child Welfare\, and the Way Ahead
DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to announce this evening with jaye simpson and Tamara Starblanket in collaboration with Heart of the City Festival.\n\n\n \n\n\nGenocide\, Child Welfare\, and the Way Ahead: an evening of discussion with jaye simpson and Tamara Starblanket.\n\n\n\nJoin us October 24th\, when writer\, advocate\, and activist jaye simpson will discuss their experience as survivor of the child welfare system and their solutions to this destructive system. Tamara Starblanket\, author of Suffer the Little Children\, Genocide\, Indigenous Nations\, and the Canadian State (https://www.claritypress.com/Starblanket.html)\, will conclude with a discussion of the forcible removal of Indigenous Peoples’ children as a crime of genocide. She will demonstrate that the residential school and the child welfare system are criminal and suggest ways to move forward through self-determination. \njaye simpson is an Oji-Cree Two Spirit\, former youth in care who uses their perspective to speak to the complexities of intersectional identities in the foster care system. \nTamara Starblanket is Spider Woman\, a Nehiyaw iskwew (Cree woman) from Ahtahkakoop First Nation in Treaty Six Territory. She holds an LLM from the University of Saskatchewan\, and an LLB from the University of British Columbia\, is the Co-Chair of the North American Indigenous Peoples’ Caucus\, and presently coordinates and teaches in the criminology program at Native Education College in Vancouver\, BC. \n\n\n.\n\n\n.\n\n\n.\n\n\nThis event is taking place on the unceded territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh Nations.\n\n\n \n\n\nMassy Books’ downstairs event space is accessible! You can view the floorplan here: http://www.massybooks.com/accessibility/\n\n\nPlease feel free to reach out with any inquiries.\n\n\n \n\n\nThe event is all-ages.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/suffer-the-little-children-by-tamara-starblanket-a-reading-in-collaboration-with-the-heart-of-the-city-festival/
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