JOIN Victoria Freeman and Zachary Smith
at the Church of the Holy Trinity
Trinity Square, Toronto (west of the Eaton Centre)
What does it mean to say we are “treaty people” in Toronto?
What are the treaty relationships that shape (or could/should shape) relationships between Indigenous peoples and between Indigenous peoples and newcomers in the Toronto area?
Victoria Freeman is the author of Distant Relations: How My Ancestors Colonized North America, and teaches in the History and Canadian Studies Programs at York University. Her 2010 dissertation, “‘Toronto Has No History!’ Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism and Historical Memory in Canada’s Largest City,” focused on the Indigenous and colonial history of the Greater Toronto Area. She is also a member of First Story Toronto, based at the Native Canadian Centre of Toronto, and has been a long-time activist working to further decolonization and reconciliation, including through the arts.
Zachary Smith is a second year PhD student in the Department of History at the University of Toronto where he studies Indigenous political history, and treaty-making in the Great Lakes. Of Anishinaabe ancestry, he has also worked as a researcher for Chiefs of Ontario.
Thursday, February 11th at 7:00 PM
(light supper at 6:00 in the Cafe)
You are encouraged to read these articles in preparation for Thursday’s conversations.
