• Limited spots for Early Bird (December 14, 2023 – January 14, 2024) – $700 for both days
• Regular Rates:
  • $850 for both days
  • $550 for one day only

If you require an invoice, please contact Danielle Roy at symposium@wabano.com, or by telephone at 613.705.221.7800.

Drew Hayden Taylor

An Ojibway from the Curve Lake First Nations in Ontario, he has worn many hats in his literary career, from performing stand-up comedy at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., to being Artistic Director of Canada’s premiere Native theatre company, Native Earth Performing Arts. He has been an award-winning playwright, a journalist/columnist (appearing regularly in several Canadian newspapers and magazines), short-story writer, novelist, television scriptwriter, and has worked on numerous documentaries exploring the Native experience. Most notably as a filmmaker, he wrote and directed REDSKINS, TRICKSTERS AND PUPPY STEW, a documentary on Native humour for the National Film Board of Canada. Most recently, THE PRETENDIANS aired, exploring the phenomenon of non-Native people claiming Indigenous heritage.

Brenda Macdougall

Dr. Brenda Macdougall is a leading expert in the history of Métis and First Nations and Ontario’s first Chair in Métis Research. She established The Métis Family and Community Research Lab at the University of Ottawa that is creating a genealogical map of Métis history in Ontario and the Great Plains. She has presented her findings in scholarly articles and books, including her first book, One of the Family: Metis Culture in Nineteenth-Century Northwestern Saskatchewan, and in a collection of essays she co-edited, entitled Contours of a People: Metis Family, Mobility, and History.

Her current research involves tracing the history of Metis communities in a variety of geographical locations in Canada and the Unites States, focussing on how traditional kinship systems are lived and expressed.

Pam Palmater

Dr. Pamela Palmater is a Mi’kmaw citizen and member of the Eel River Bar First Nation in northern New Brunswick. She has been a practicing lawyer in good standing with the Law Society of New Brunswick for 23 years and is currently a Professor and the Chair in Indigenous Governance at Toronto Metropolitan University (Formerly Ryerson University).

She has numerous publications including her books, Beyond Blood: Rethinking Indigenous Identity, and her most recent book: Warrior Life: Indigenous Resistance and Resurgence is her latest collection of anti-colonial writings which challenge genocide, racism and oppression of Indigenous peoples.

Kim TallBear

Kim TallBear (Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate) is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience, and Society, Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta. She is the author of Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science. In addition to studying genome science disruptions to Indigenous self-definitions, Dr. TallBear studies colonial disruptions to Indigenous sexual relations. She is a regular panelist on the weekly podcast, Media Indigena. You can follow her research group at https://indigenoussts.com/.  You can also follow her monthly posts on her Substack newsletter, Unsettle: Indigenous affairs, cultural politics & (de)colonization.