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Stories and Sovereignty: Winter Tales of Water and Love – “What we do to the Water, We do to ourselves”
January 10, 2019 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Date: January 10th, 2019
Time: 5:00 pm- 7:00 pm
Location: Room 2007D Wilson Hall, New College, University of Toronto (St. George Campus)
Speaker: Dr. Debby Danard
Dr. Debby Danard, an Anishnaabe-kwe from Rainy River First Nation will be performing a water ceremony and sharing Indigenous water teachings as a way to challenge the way people think about water that go beyond law, policy and citizen science. In 2006, Danard went on her first water walk and it was after this she started thinking of water through ceremony. Her knowledge and experience will be sure to change the way we consider water and help us identify with water as humans, as this can help bring things back into balance. As Deborah says, “what we do to the water, we do to ourselves!”
Anishnaabekwe (Ojibway) from Rainy River first Nation in North Western Ontario. She is a PhD graduate from University of Toronto, a water walker, advocate and water ambassador who speaks and performs water ceremonies to raise awareness of the spiritual nature and rights of water. She is also a traditional life practitioner and life promotion ambassador and shares these teachings in schools and community organizations.