On this United Nations International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, it is an honour to share – with permission – the Osgoode Hall Masters of Law thesis of Sylvia McAdam. Filled with kinship, culture, language and indigenous brilliance, Sylvia has created yet another deeply considered work that is sure to rock souls. We send her warm congratulations on completing this work in a truly Cree way – even within a môniyaw institiution. Sylvia is already hinting at a conference on this work that will follow. Some day we may even see her dream-inspired deerhide scroll.
Kikisôkêmôwin – the first word in the title – is explained as “a process using prayer, words, actions and ceremony to remind people of various ancient knowledges to stir their memories as well as their thoughts and dreaming of existing.”
Find the thesis here in York University’s digital repository.
Read or download your own copy here:
* The cover image for this post accurately quotes the main body of the Table of Contents; I found I couldn’t help embossing it onto a piece of digital deerskin.
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This is amazing! kitatamihinân.
Her work is brilliant. Please everybody encourage her to publish.