About Sovereignty Performance
…speaking their minds. Jordan Bennett Artist Statement Jordan Bennett is a multi-disciplinary visual artist of Mi’kmaq decent who calls the west coast of Newfoundland home. His work is derived from…
About Jordan Bennett
Biography I am a multi-disciplinary visual artist of Mi’kmaq decent who calls the west coast of Newfoundland home. My work is derived from a combination of popular and traditional cultural…
About the REDress project
…my work as a teacher in Opaskawayak Cree Nation, also known as The Pas, where Helen Betty Osborne was brutally murdered while walking home one night by two young men…
Marginalization of Aboriginal women
…Over the years more and more women were being thrown out of their homes by husbands. While the men then moved their girlfriends—often [non-status]—into the family home, the Indian women…
Aboriginal Identity & the Classroom
…right to live on reserve. Many women were forced to live away from their home reserves and by extension their communities and families. Even if they left their husbands or…
Aboriginal Title
…of and relationship with their home territories as well as their ongoing social structures and political and legal systems. As such, Aboriginal title and rights are separate from rights afforded…
Land & Rights
…linked. Aboriginal rights and title are not granted from an external source but are a result of Aboriginal peoples’ own occupation of and relationship with their home territories as well…
