Lana Whiskeyjack is a nêhiyaw (Cree) visual storyteller, scholartist and arts actionist educator. She is a multidisciplinary artist, scholar, and author from Saddle Lake Cree Nation in Treaty Six, Alberta, now based in amiskwaciy waskahikan, Edmonton. Lana demonstrates innovative interdisciplinary Indigenous knowledge translation and mobilization through arts and land-based practices, community-engaged research, scholarship services and teaching. Her scholarship is grounded within nêhiyawêwin (Cree language), nêhiyaw ways of being and knowing. Her current collaborative research explores gender and sexual diversity, rites of passage, rematriation, kinship systems (wahkohtowin) and health and wellness. Her visual works have been exhibited internationally and she created over a dozen digital stories for accessible intergenerational community resources. She was awarded Research Excellence within her current role as an Associate Professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta.
Walk with Lana Whiskeyjack – miyopimatisowin: Walking the Good Path and Plant Medicine (Thursday October 17, 14.45-16.00)
Join Lana Whiskeyjack, a nêhiyaw visual storyteller, scholartist and Professor at the University of Alberta for a short talk followed by a walk exploring plant medicine and how to walk the good path (miyopimatisowin). Dress for the weather, walk will go ahead rain or shine or snow!