Identity Through an Indigenous Lens: Clan Systems & 2SLGBTQ+ People

Join us at First Nations House (3rd Floor, 563 Spadina Ave., Toronto, ON M5S 2J7) for an "Identity Through an Indigenous Lens: Clan Systems & 2SLGBTQ+ People" workshop with EJ Kwandibens on March 29, 2023 from 3pm-6pm.

Participants shall learn the Northern Woodland Anishinawbe Clan Systems Perspectives; a traditional governance system of creating order and balance in community while strengthening and empowering the roles and responsibilities of the individual.

This event is open to ALL University of Toronto students, staff, and faculty with a focus on Indigenous & 2SLGBTQ+ students to Turtle Island (First Nations, Mètis, Inuit, etc). 

About EJ:

EJ Kwandibens, also known as Anikay-Keesic, is a member of the Loon Clan and is of Northern Woodland Anishiinaabe (Ojibway) of the Waahbiidaahgaah (Whitesand) First Nation community which is a part of the Robinson Superior 1850 Treaty region located 21 hours north of Toronto.

EJ has over two decades of work experience for cultural awareness development in healthy living. He has worked across many sectors such as, Educational Institutions, Correctional Services, Social Services, Child Welfare and Mental Health. He advocates the power of change through Indigenous Cultural Modalities.

The values and principles guiding his Indigenous ways of knowing and being stems from intergenerational knowledge transfer. Oral traditions form the foundation of Aboriginal societies, connecting speaker and listener in communal experience and uniting past and present in memory. The philosophy of “Miino Biimaahdizewin: Balanced Good Life” is a reclamation of the self and one’s ability to be interconnected through a holistic cultural lens.

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