Western University has the following experts available to speak on topics related to National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Indigenous history, Indigenous knowledge and Indigenous art.
Vanessa Ambtman Smith (Two Thunderbirds/Niizhbinesiik)
Assistant Professor, Geography & Environment, Indigenous Studies
Nêhiyaw-Métis
- Indigenous health geographies
- Indigenous traditional healing spaces within a hospital context
Cody Groat
Assistant Professor, Indigenous Studies, History
Kanyen’kehaka (Mohawk) and band member of Six Nations of the Grand River
- Indigenous public history and biographical history
- Commemoration and preservation of Indigenous cultural heritage
- Sixties scoop
- Residential school system
Dr. Rebekah Jacques
Assistant Professor, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry and Forensic Pathologist
Citizen of Métis Nation
- Death investigation bioethics
- The role of forensics in the search for residential schools missing children
- Forensic pathology
Sheri Osden Nault
Assistant Professor, Visual Arts
Métis
- Indigenous art
- Contemporary art
- Experimental art
- Ecological and environmental art
Nicole Redvers
Associate Professor, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry; Western Research Chair and Director of Indigenous Planetary Health
Deninu K’ue First Nation
- Indigenous health
- Planetary health
- Traditional medicine
- Indigenous global health
Lina Sunseri
Professor, Indigenous Studies, Sociology
Oneida Nation of the Thames, of the Turtle Clan
- Indigenous women
- Indigenous mothering
- Decolonization
- Gender and nationalism
- Community development
MEDIA CONTACT: Jacquelyn Mitchell, Media Relations Officer, Western University, (226) 386-9683, [email protected]
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