Thu, February 26, 2015 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM See description. Free. This course was designed in partnership with elders from the Kainai Aboriginal community. The original idea for this course stems from a vision, request and invitation from these elders.
Indigenous people face a difficult paradox related to the two challenges of surviving within individualist, competitive and consumerist societies while keeping alive alternative ways of knowing and being within them.
The sundance is one of the practices that affirms a different existential approach to life not defined by modern global capitalism.
The course combines lectures and seminars at UBC in Vancouver and a ten-day visit to the Kainai reserve in Alberta, which includes a four-day observation of a Sundance ceremony.
Dr. Cash Ahenakew and Dr. Vanessa Andreotti — Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities, and Global Change — lead this experiential learning course, with lectures and seminars at UBC Vancouver, and a ten-day trip to the Kanai Reserve in Alberta, including a four-day observation of a sundance ceremony. Spaces are limited.
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Please contact pro-d.educ@ubc.ca to register your attendance.