Lana Whiskeyjack
Lana Whiskeyjack is a multidisciplinary treaty nêhiyaw (Cree) scholartist from Saddle Lake Cree Nation and assistant professor in the Faculty of Arts, Women's and Gender Studies, at the University of Alberta. In 2017, Lana completed her iyiniw pimâtisiwin kiskêyihtamowin doctoral program (ipkDoc) at University nuhelot’įne thaiyots’į nistamêyimâkanak Blue Quills (UnBQ), a former Indian Residential School attended by two generations of her womb connections. Learning and reconnecting to nêhiyaw ceremony, nêhiyawêwin (Cree language), and nêhiyaw worldview in the same place that forcefully removed these connections have become the roots her community and arts-based practices. Lana integrates Indigenous ways of knowing and being with methods of Western academia in her scholarship, research and course development. Her research, writing, and creativity focuses on Indigenous sexual health, economic security, transforming intergenerational trauma to resilience, and Indigenous visual literacy. Her current research project explores issues around the theme of ‘(re)connecting to the spirit of nêhiyawêwin (Cree language)’, nêhiyaw diverse gender worldviews, and the iskwew (woman) body relation to the cosmic and earth within 13 moon teachings through arts-based practices. She is featured in a documentary about confronting and transcending historical trauma through her arts-based practice titled, “Lana Gets Her Talk” (2017).
EPISODE NOTES & LINKS
Alex Janvier
https://www.alexjanvier.com/
Indigenous Knowledge and Wisdom Center, Kihciy Askiy
https://www.ikwc.org/
Lana Get’s Her Talk
https://wishmacproductions.ca/films/lana-gets-her-talk/
Lana Whiskeyjack
https://lanawhiskeyjack.ca/
Lana Whiskeyjack (YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYTo8ZoaxIhabJjuF_xBtwg
MacEwan University in kihêw waciston
https://www.macewan.ca/campus-life/kihew-waciston-indigenous-centre/
Pei Pei Chew Ow
https://peipeicheiow.com/
University Blue Quills
https://www.bluequills.ca/
Whiskeyjack Art House
https://whiskeyjackarthouse.ca/