Jessie Loyer is Cree-Métis and a member of Michel First Nation. She is a liaison librarian at Mount Royal University in Calgary, a guest on Treaty 7 and Blackfoot territory. Her research looks at Indigenous perspectives on information literacy, supporting language revitalization, and creating ongoing research relationships using a nêhiyaw and Michif concept of kinship. She's a director with the Prairie Indigenous Relationality Network, or Paskwaw Wahkohtowin, which connects prairie scholars working on relationality.
READINGS
Littletree, Sandra. Belarde-Lewis, Miranda, and Duarte, Marisa. (2020). Centering Relationality: A Conceptual Model to Advance Indigenous Knowledge Organization Practices. Knowledge Organization, 47 (5), 410-426. https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/handle/1773/46601 (focus on the model on page 423 and the examples on page 422)
Alexie, Elaine. (2019, August 15). Doing Museum Research on Gwich’in Material Culture: Tips for Visiting Collections. Shinli' Niintaih – Strong Hands. https://lidiilove.wordpress.com/2019/08/15/doing-museum-research-on-gwichin-material-culture-tips-for-visiting-collections/
Cielemęcka, O., Rogowska-Stangret, M., Bhambra, G.K., Pető, A., Loyer, J., Ivancheva, M., Hlín Halldórsdóttir, N. (2020). Roundtable discussion: Thinking together from within the times that worry us. Matter: Journal of New Materialist Research, 1(1), 80-108. https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/matter/article/view/29204 (read Jessie's part of the roundtable - on pages 95-99)
Sentance, Nathan mudyi. (2020, May 7). Indigenous referencing prototype - non-Indigenous authored works. Archival Decolonist. https://archivaldecolonist.com/2020/05/07/indigenous-referencing-prototype-non-indigenous-authored-works/
Sentance, N.M (2017, July 21). Maker unknown and the decentring First Nations People. Archival Decolonist [blog post]: https://archivaldecolonist.com/2017/07/21/maker-unknown-and-the-decentring-first-nations-people/
Jenna Rose Sands is a Cree Anishinaabe artist who is turning her emotional exhaustion over the current state of Indigenous affairs into informative zines that educate and question wide spread prejudice regarding Indigenous people. Focussing each zine on the experiences and stories of Indigenous people who have endured a multitude of atrocities committed by the Canadian government, Jenna Rose is able to pair words with dynamic mixed media works for a final result that is both powerful and visually engaging. An ongoing series, Jenna Rose is trying to change language and ideas around Indigenous issues one zine at a time.
Jenna Rose Sands' website “Atrocities Against Indigenous Canadians for Dummies” https://www.atrocitiesagainstindigenouscanadians.com/
Kabaty, Jasmine. “Indigenous woman's zine series gets response that "makes her heart flutter.” CBC News 17 January 2020. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/indigenous-woman-s-zine-series-gets-response-that-makes-her-heart-flutter-1.5873482
City Symposium: https://youtu.be/9VlU9c8YfQ8
Tanya Ball is a Métis scholar and a sessional instructor for the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. She is also a PhD student in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta. She can be reached by e-mail at: tcball@ualberta.ca.
Kayla Lar-Son is a Métis/Ukrainian scholar and a sessional instructor for the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. She is also the Indigenous Programs and Services librarian Xwi7xwa Library at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. She can be reached by e-mail at: kayla.lar-son@ubc.ca.
Tanya and Kayla are 2/3 of the Book Women Podcast, now in its third season.
Suggested reading:
Ball, Tanya and Kayla Lar-Son, "Relationality in the Classroom: Teaching Indigenous LIS in a Canadian Context" portal: Libraries and the Academy, Vol. 21, No. 2 (2021), pp. 205–218. preprint version: https://preprint.press.jhu.edu/portal/sites/ajm/files/21.2ball.pdf
Lisc Daley is a Status First Nations Librarian from Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg who has been living and working in Yellowknife which is located on Chief Drygeese Territory, traditional home of the Yellowknives Dene. These are also the traditional lands of the North Slave Metis. She is the Legislative Librarian, NWT. She completed her MLIS from McGill in 1996. She also sits on the Indigenous Matters Committee https://cfla-fcab.ca/en/indigenous/trc_report/.
David A. Robertson is the author of numerous books for young readers including When We Were Alone, which won the 2017 Governor General's Literary Award. The Barren Grounds, the first book in the middle-grade The Misewa Saga series, received a starred review from Kirkus and was a Kirkus and Quill & Quire best middle-grade book of 2020, as well as a USBBY and Texas Lone Star selection, and is shortlisted for the Ontario Library Association’s Silver Birch Award. He was awarded the TWUC Freedom to Read Award in 2021. His memoir, Black Water: Family, Legacy, and Blood Memory, also came out in 2020. It was a Globe and Mail top 100 Book of the Year, a Quill & Quire Book of the Year, and a Maclean’s 20 Books You Need to Read this Winter selection. His podcast, Kīwew is available on CBC Listen. David A. Robertson is a member of the Norway House Cree Nation and currently lives in Winnipeg. For more information, follow him on Twitter: @DaveAlexRoberts.