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DESCRIPTION:When: September 27th\, 5PM\n	Where: Arts W-215 (accessible space
 )\n	Facebook event:https://www.facebook.com/events/2001702213453716/\n	\n	In 
 this Indigenous Awareness Week talk\, Ktunaxa poet and PhD Candidate\, Smo
 kii Sumac\, will share stories of his many journeys 'home\,' as an Indigen
 ous adoptee and two-spirit person\, in ceremony\, with chosen family\, wit
 hin his nation\, and to his homelands. While stories of loss and devastati
 on tend to forefront today's conversations on Indigenous issues\, Sumac ar
 gues that we must seek out and share narratives of returning\, remembering
 \, and what Gerald Vizenor calls 'survivance' in order to learn to restore
  and celebrate the relationships that colonization seeks to destroy: relat
 ionships with the land\, our bodies\, our selves\, families\, communities\
 , nations\, knowledges and ceremonies. With a background in Indigenous lit
 erary studies\, Sumac weaves thoughtful analysis of Indigenous works such 
 as Cherie Dimaline's the Marrow Thieves\, Jeff Barnaby's Rhymes for Young 
 Ghouls\, and Linda Hogan's Solar Storms with deeply personal and moving st
 ories of his own experiences learning what it means to come home. Smokii S
 umac is a proud member of the Ktunaxa nation located in what is currently 
 southeastern British Columbia. They are a PhD Candidate in Indigenous Stud
 ies at Trent University where their research centres on “coming home” as a
  Ktunaxa adoptee and two-spirit person. Smokii identifies as queer\, trans
 masculine\, two-spirit\, a poet\, and uncle\, and auntie and a cat person.
  They accept he/him/his or they/them/theirs pronouns. Co-presented by the 
 Institute for Gender\, Sexuality and Feminist Studies and Indigenous Aware
 ness Week. Part of the IGSF year long series: “The Arts of Trans\, Gender 
 Diverse and Two-Spirit Lives”\, funded by the Social Sciences and Humaniti
 es Research Council of Canada.\n
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SUMMARY:Talk by Smokii Sumac: 'On Coming Home: Stories from a Two-Spirit Ad
 optee'
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