{"id":1419,"date":"2024-08-27T17:23:29","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T17:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nych.ca\/cms\/?post_type=news&#038;p=1419"},"modified":"2024-09-30T07:12:34","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T07:12:34","slug":"lunch-learn-series-with-niigaan-sinclair","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/nych.ca\/cms\/news\/lunch-learn-series-with-niigaan-sinclair\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunch &#038; Learn Series with Niigaan Sinclair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From November 2023 to June 2024 for nine sessions, <span class=\"TextRun SCXW220272673 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-CA\" xml:lang=\"EN-CA\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW220272673 BCX0\">Dr. <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW220272673 BCX0\">Niigaan<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW220272673 BCX0\"> Sinclair offered teachings on Indigenous Peoples, Cultures, Communities,\u202fand\u202fRights.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lunch &amp; Learn with Niigaan Sinclair\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PL-xEVC4xn0cbZn51fQE8qQwGgdU6b0Ax0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Watch the Lunch &amp; Learn Series here, on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL-xEVC4xn0cbZn51fQE8qQwGgdU6b0Ax0\">YouTube Channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(Dr.) Niigaan Sinclair is Anishinaabe (St. Peter\u2019s\/Little Peguis) and a professor at the University of Manitoba, where he holds the Faculty of Arts Professorship in Indigenous Knowledge and Aesthetics and is currently Head of the Department of Indigenous Studies. Niigaan is also an award-winning writer, editor and activist who was recently named to the \u201cPower List\u201d by Maclean\u2019s magazine as one of the most influential individuals in Canada. In 2018, he won Canadian columnist of the year at the National Newspaper Awards for his bi-weekly columns in The Winnipeg Free Press and is a featured member of the Friday &#8220;Power Panel&#8221; on CBC&#8217;s Power &amp; Politics. A former secondary school teacher, he won the 2019 Peace Educator of the Year from the Peace and Justice Studies Association based at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. His research includes Indigenous literature, graphic novels, and masculinities. An activist as well as a writer, Niigaan has helped organize Idle No More Winnipeg events and has co-edited three award-winning collections: Centering Anishinaabeg Studies: Understanding the World Through Stories, Manitowapow: Aboriginal Writings from the Land of Water, and The Winter We Danced: Voices of the Past, the Future, and the Idle No More Movement.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Keep up with Niigaan on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Niigaanwewidam?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">Twitter<\/a>!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch our Lunch &#038; Learn Series with Dr. Niigaan Sinclair on Indigenous Peoples, Cultures, Communities,\u202fand\u202fRights<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1428,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[24,98],"class_list":["post-1419","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-resources","category-truth-and-reconciliation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nych.ca\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nych.ca\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nych.ca\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nych.ca\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nych.ca\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nych.ca\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}