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The Dance from Cabbagetown Cones to Shiibaashka’igan Cones
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From: Indigenous Toronto
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Karen Pheasant-Neganigwane speaks about growing up in Toronto and Indigenous activism.
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Karen Pheasant-Neganigwane
Karen Pheasant-Neganigwane is Anishinaabe and an advocate of social change through expressions of dance, text, and teaching. Karen’s path to activism and scholarly work started as a youth during the height of the civil rights era of the seventies. The social project of Rochdale College (Toronto), led with ‘idealism, artistic spirit and free speech, provided the embryonic opening for her inquisitive spirit. Through ceremony and mentorship, Karen has spent the past forty years mentored by iconic Indigenous scholars from the Great Lakes of her people to Treaty Three, Treaty Six, and currently in Treaty Seven. Karen’s studies are in poli-sci (BA ’03), Eng lit (BA ’11), and education (MEd ’13). She is currently working on her doctorate, on the topic of Indigenous thought and pedagogy.
