2025 Journey Update: Empowerment from the Circle
2025 ii' taa'poh'to'p Journey Update: Empowerment from the Circle
On November 26, the Office of the Vice-Provost (Indigenous Engagement) will commemorate eight years since launching ii’ taa’poh’to’p, the University of Calgary's Indigenous Strategy. To celebrate, we invite students, faculty, leadership and community partners to join us for the 2025 ii' taa'poh'to'p Journey Update: Empowerment from the Circle.
Hosted by Dr. Michael Hart Vice-Provost (Indigenous Engagement), the event will include:
- Four stories offered by UCalgary staff and faculty in support of and in alignment with our visionary circles: Ways of Knowing, Ways of Doing, Ways of Connecting and Ways of Being.
- Campus highlights from the past year, showcasing our continued journey towards reconciliation.
- A keynote address from Niigaanwewidam Sinclair.
Please join us in celebrating our collective journey in working together in an inclusive circle of relatives as we take up our responsibility of reconciliation through education as established in the Final Report on Truth and Reconciliation.
Date: November 26, 2025
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. MT
Location: MacEwan Hall Ballroom, UCalgary (in-person)
Niigaanwewidam (Niigaan) Sinclair
About the keynote
Niigaanwewidam (Niigaan) Sinclair
Niigaan Sinclair is Anishinaabe from Peguis First Nation. He is an award-winning writer, editor and professor of Indigenous Studies at the University of Manitoba who was named by Maclean’s magazine in 2022 as one of the most influential people in Canada. Niigaan is a multiple nominee of Canadian columnist of the year (winning in 2018) and his commentary appears weekly on multiple platforms across Canada – from the pages of The Winnipeg Free Press to TV shows on CBC, APTN and on his co-hosted podcast Niigaan and the Lone Ranger. His first book Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre (McClelland & Stewart, 2024) was a national bestseller that won the 2024 Governor General Award for Non-fiction. He is a former secondary school teacher who won the 2019 Peace Educator of the Year from the Peace and Justice Studies Association based at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.