"A Red Girl's Reasoning ...& Creating": Indigenous Women Creatives in Kanata/Canada 10/16 - Kaylee B

Professor Watchman's lecture had two main parts. The first was to discuss her analysis of "A Red Girl's Reasoning," which is a short film that follows a Blackfoot woman vigilante as she attempts to right the wrongs the justice system has failed to do. We watched the film together in the lecture, and a preview of the film can be found above...  One of the main topics we discussed was the idea of retributions and what that means. One thing we she pointed out is that it is different for every tribe. I think this is an important overarching idea, that Native tribes are not homogenous, especially given the current events.

The second portion of her lecture highlighted on her work in Indigenizing academia. She is the first Native American faculty member to receive tenure at her University, Mt. Royal. Mt. Royal has committed to "Indigenizing" their curriculum, and she is leading this effort. She explained that the eventual goal is to have all students take about 4 classes before they graduate that will give them exposure to Indigenous ideas, cultures, etc. This could be things like Linguistics looking at Native languages or English majors taking courses that include novels by Native authors. I think this is a really great initiative and reminded me of one of the things we did in Intro to CSRE, which was propose ways for Stanford to get their students more engaged with issues of Race.

I didn't take a picture... my b, but Delphine and Greg were both there and saw me.