GUEST SPEAKER - THE INDIGENOUS PALEOLITHIC OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2023 7:00PM
FREE EVENT - Online Ticketing Closes 12:00pm October 25, 2023
* Tickets will also be available at the door
In-Person & Live-Streaming* options available
* Patrons choosing Live-Stream option will receive link via email prior to event
Presented by: Ontario Tech University Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, Faculty of Science and Carpenters Union - Local Unit 397 .
Dr. Paulette Steeves (Cree-Métis) will discuss her ground-breaking work on Decolonizing North American Origins. Her work indicates that, contrary to popular opinion - which holds that people crossed the Bering Strait some 16,000 years ago - Indigenous People were living and thriving on Turtle Island as far back as 130,000 years, and perhaps earlier.
This is a free event that is open to the public. Please obtain your free ticket in advance of the event.
Recommended Age: 14+
Age Restriction: 5+
FREE EVENT - Online Ticketing Closes 12:00pm October 25, 2023
* Tickets will also be available at the door
In-Person & Live-Streaming* options available
* Patrons choosing Live-Stream option will receive link via email prior to event
Presented by: Ontario Tech University Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, Faculty of Science and Carpenters Union - Local Unit 397 .
Dr. Paulette Steeves (Cree-Métis) will discuss her ground-breaking work on Decolonizing North American Origins. Her work indicates that, contrary to popular opinion - which holds that people crossed the Bering Strait some 16,000 years ago - Indigenous People were living and thriving on Turtle Island as far back as 130,000 years, and perhaps earlier.
This is a free event that is open to the public. Please obtain your free ticket in advance of the event.
Recommended Age: 14+
Age Restriction: 5+
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Dr. Paulette Steeves. Ph.D. (Cree- Metis) is an Indigenous archaeologist. She was born in Whitehorse, Yukon Territories, and grew up in Lillooet, British Columbia. She was awarded the Clifford D. Clark fellowship for attending graduate studies at Binghamton University in New York State; she successfully defended her PhD dissertation in 2015. Dr. Steeves now holds the Canada Research Chair in Healing and Reconciliation at Algoma University, where is also an Associate Professor and Department Chair of Sociology- Anthropology and a faculty member of the Geography Geology and Land Management Program.
Her book, The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere, published in 2021, won the American Library Association Choice 2022 Outstanding Academic Title Award. Dr. Steeves has authored numerous articles and book chapters in collected editions. She built a database of Residential Schools, Indian Day Schools and Indian Hospitals in Canada online at CRISCID.COM and a database of Pleistocene archaeology sites in the Americas, online at TIPDBA.COM