Please join Denica Bleau for the next Starting the Conversation!
Denica Bleau (she/her). Photo credit: Yarrow Froehler
Wednesday, Feb. 5
12:00 noon to 1:00 pm, PST
Arts 368 in person
Zoom: please email icer.ok@ubc.ca for the link
Indigenous Land-based Program Framework for Criminalization and Institutionalization
Imprisonment within Canada has been used as early as 1849 to exercise control over Indigenous populations and extinguish Indigenous rights, resulting in trauma and detrimentally effecting mental, emotional, spiritual, physical, and economic health of Indigenous people and Nations.
Denica has been working with Splatsin, an Indigenous community within the Secwepemc Nation, to develop an Indigenous Land-based Program Framework, for individuals who have been criminalized and/or institutionalized (prison) and are returning to community. Through Story, Denica will reflect about her approach to research, community partnership, and being led by an Indigenous Land-based Story Methodology.
Bio:
Denica Bleau (she/her) is a Métis counsellor, advocate, and artist, originally from Treaty 4. Denica has worked/volunteered within the Indigenous communities of Turtle Island, Pictish and Gaelic Celt (Celtic), and Incan Territories, in the realms of counselling within prison and following release. Denica’s research is focused on Indigenous Land-based healing from the effects of criminalized and institutionalized trauma.
