Eastern Mennonite University Master of Arts in Biomedicine Science Concentration Masters Fall 2018
Current Graduate Students
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 | Adele BibaultMA Student My proper noun is Adele Bibault, my pronouns are she/her. I have roots in Lithuania and Germany, I identify with white colonial descent. I took my undergrad degree at the University of Victoria. I completed a double Major in Anthropology (Hons) and Greek and Roman Studies. I wrote my honours thesis with Indian Residential School (IRS) Survivors on the repatriation of their childhood artwork and how it has influenced their lives. I am a first-year Masters student in the Indigenous Studies department. I am writing my thesis on health inequity of rural Indigenous populations with a specific focus on how the westernized biomedical field can change to ameliorate incorporate Indigenous holistic health practices and support the rural Ethnic elderly population. My supervisor is Dr. Beatty. |
| | Danielle BirdMs. Danielle Bird (Nehiyaw) is a member of the Saddle Lake Cree Nation in Alberta and has familial ties to the Mistawasis Nehiyawak in West Central Saskatchewan. Teaching: BA, Great Stardom 2016 Department of Folklore (Major), University of Saskatchewan Department of Indigenous Studies (Minor), University of Saskatchewan MA, Ethnic Studies, 2021 Department of Indigenous Studies (Major) University of Saskatchewan Research Disciplines: Sociology, Indigenous Studies Areas of Enquiry: Crime, Criminalization, Critical Prison Studies, Social Control, Gender, Indigenous Peoples, Customs Reintegration, Social Exclusion, and Violence against Indigenous Women Contact Information: Department of Indigenous Studies, University of Saskatchewan Kirk Hall, 117 Science Place Saskatoon, SK S7N 5C8 Email: danielle.bird@usask.ca |
 | Charmaine ChristiansenMA Student My proper noun is Charmaine Christiansen. I am from Dawson Urban center, Yukon and proudly part of the Tr'ondék Hwëch'in Get-go Nation. On my mothers' side I am Whiteriver Outset Nation and honored that my grandfather gifted me with my Northern Tutchone proper name Tsäw Kézhye which means "gopher hunter". My grandfather on my dad's side came from Norway and met my grandma who travelled from Alaska to the Yukon before the borders separated the Hän People. I am grateful to my parents who raised me with our traditional Indigenous practices such as domestic dog mushing, hibernate tanning, birchbark basket making, sewing, hunting, gathering, so much more. In April 2022 I graduated from the BA Applied Accent Psychology Plan at Concordia Academy Edmonton. Hither at USask my goal is to study traditional Indigenous healing practices along side the Western practice of Psychology, which is termed the "2-Eyed Seeing" approach. As a showtime-generation graduate educatee, it is important to me to bring the knowledge I gain back to the Yukon as I see many families including my own struggling to find healing and prosperity from the impact of residential school and colonial assimilation. My research interest includes holism, traditional healing practices, Indigenous governance, Indigenization, decolonization and customs-based research. |
 | Charleen CotePhD Student My proper name is Charleen Dionne Cote. I am a proud member of the Keeseekoose Saulteaux Nation and have familial ties on the Little Black Bear First Nation, both located on Treaty Iv Territory and homelands of the Métis. I am an Anishinaabe kwe and ascribe each of my strengths to my resilient and resolute female person lineage. I am married to my best friend and have one adult son. I am a spiritual person with unwavering faith and am defined past my connection to the land. My favorite things to do include hunting, fishing, camping, cooking, and beading. I completed a Certificate of Indigenous Social Work, a Bachelor of Indigenous Social Work, and a Master of Ethnic Social Work through the Offset Nations Academy of Canada. My research focus is the impact of intergenerational trauma on Indigenous People. I have worked in clinical counselling, interpersonal violence and with street populations my entire career and have goals and aspirations of linking trauma with brain development, or lack thereof, resulting in specific behaviors in Indigenous populations. |
 | Bishudwy DewanMA Student JuJu (Greetings), I am Bishudwy Dewan. I come up from an Indigenous community called 'Chakma' from the Chittagong Loma Tracts, People's republic of bangladesh. I am currently pursuing my Masters in Indigenous Studies at the Academy of Saskatchewan. I am the first member of my family unit and one of the few of my community who came to North America to pursue higher education. In 2018, I completed my Bachelor of Social Scientific discipline in International Relations from Jahangirnagar University, in People's republic of bangladesh. During my undergrad, I came across an extremely interesting course named 'Theories and Problems of Ethnicity and Nationalism,' where I had the opportunity to innovate myself to colonial and post-colonial theories. These teachings actually opened my eyes and permit me think most the decolonization of Indigenous peoples from colonial societies and structures. My research will focus on Indigenous migration. My family has a personal connexion with forced migration. In 1962, when my father was 6 years quondam, along with many peoples, his family had to leave their traditional homeland forever and migrate to India, due to the development of 'Kaptai' a hydroelectric dam. In my thesis, I volition focus on the diasporic experience of Indigenous peoples who migrated to Canada from Bangladesh in a multicultural society. I will also research on how immigrated Indigenous Peoples in Canada feel and engage with other Indigenous Peoples in Canada. My enquiry interests also include Indigenous and identity politics, decolonization, identify the problems of International Relations theories regarding Indigenous undermination, state-based education, and Indigenous ecology management. |
 | Jenny GardipyPhD Student Tanisi. Jenny Gardipy nitisîyihkâson, Beardy's and Okemasis First Nation ohci niya in Treaty 6 Territory. I am a mother of six and grandmother of 4. I feel so honoured to be selected equally one of the PhD candidates for the Indigenous Studies Department at the University of Saskatchewan. I worked as the Acquaintance Regional Managing director for the Starting time Nations and Inuit Wellness Branch (FNIHB) and took a year off piece of work to be closer to nikawiy after nohtâwîpan passed away. I joined the federal government in December 2022 every bit the Director of Business organization Operations for the FNIHB, Saskatchewan Region in the newly formed department called Indigenous Services Canada (formerly under Wellness Canada). I proudly graduated from the University of Saskatchewan in 2011 with a Master'southward degree in Public Health. Immediately subsequently obtaining my degrees, I worked with national and local health organizations earlier condign the Director of Health for my community. I have always had an involvement in working in the health field and strongly believe that Indigenous peoples take the capacity and knowledge to make healthy changes in their communities. I am passionate about taking an active role in helping communities motility towards better health outcomes. Nikawiy went blind when I was 13-years old and I have witnessed the lack of wellness services that many in the disabled customs face. Nohtâwîpan survived the Indian Residential School and recently passed abroad on February 15, 2018. His humble and Nehiyaw ways of beingness continue to be my foundation. I look forward to learning from the amazing Indigenous Studies faculty and possibly contributing to positive wellness outcomes of Indigenous peoples. kinanâskomitin |
 | Kate GillisMA Student Kate Gillis is Métis from Calgary, Alberta with family roots in the historic Red River Settlement. In the Spring of 2020, Kate completed her Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in History, and a minor in Psychology from St. Mary's University Calgary. Kate is now a masters student in the Ethnic Studies department at the Academy of Saskatchewan, with her inquiry focussing on early Métis history. As an Indigenous feminist scholar, Kate's MA work focusses on positioning the role of Métis women within the larger narrative of the Métis ethnogenesis. During the virtually recent Ethnic Achievement Week she was recognized with an honor for academic excellence. Kate is the recipient of the Gabriel Dumont Graduate Scholarship in Métis Studies, and recently accepted a SSHRC CGS-M award. |
 | Brady HighwayMA Educatee Brady Highway is Rocky Cree from the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation, and currently lives in Saskatoon (SK) where he is the Resource Management Coordinator for Wanuskewin Heritage Park. He is a Cree translator and from a young historic period became a well-respected wilderness guide throughout the North. He passes the teachings he received from his late granny, Maggie Highway, onto his 2 children so that they sympathise the human role within our environment and the obligation it carries to protect our lands for time to come generations. Having grown upwardly on the Churchill River, Brady learned how to respectfully interact with the surroundings and has been working in the field of environmental protection for over 24 years. At the age of xv he worked every bit a seasonal wildland firefighter, and subsequently worked in resource conservation at Yoho, Prince Albert and Wapusk National Park'southward where he specialized in wildfire management, public safety and human-wild fauna conflict. Brady is now working on a Masters of Ethnic Studies, focusing his research on biocultural conservation through the creation of Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas to support a large calibration grasslands restoration project and the reintroduction of Buffalo to their ancestral abode. |
| | Michelle HoganPhD Candidate Michelle Hogan is a member of the Batchewana First Nation in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario and the single parent of seven children. She has earned an Associate of Science Caste in Computer science from Camosun College in Victoria, BC. in 2002 and a BA (Honours) in Indigenous Studies from the Academy of Regina in 2005. She has earned a Main of Arts in Native Studies from the Academy of Saskatchewan in 2008. Her MA thesis was titled: "They're Tough, These Women!": The Everyday Resistance of Aboriginal Women to Dehumanization by Government Agencies. Michelle is presently a PhD student in Native Studies at the University of Saskatchewan. Her research will exist on The Function of Tradition in Aboriginal Wellness and Health. Her inquiry interests include Ancient women, cultural constructions of Aboriginality and the potential use of natural sciences in Native Studies. |
 | Adriana JuarezMA Educatee Adriana is a Mestizo settler to Treaty Six, Homeland of the Métis. Adriana has a deep love for political music in all genres, which started at a young historic period due to her politically active family and attributes this music to guiding her research. Some of her favourite political albums include A Short Story About A War by Shad, ameri'kana by Making Movies, and Blackness Panther: The Album by Kendrick Lamar. She graduated from the University of Saskatchewan in 2022 with a Double Honours in Ethnic Studies and Anthropology. She is currently a student in the Masters program at the Academy of Saskatchewan and will exist focusing her research on Latin American Indigenous resistance music and its role as a political movement during the 1960s-1980s, with a specific focus on El Salvador, Chile, and United mexican states. Her research interests include understanding historical and contemporary human rights problems, Socialist and Marxist movements, political music, Latinx and Ethnic feminism, and Indigenous concepts of well-being. |
 | Lindsay KnightPhD Student Lindsay "Eekwol" Knight is a member of Muskoday First Nation, currently living in Saskatoon, Treaty Six Territory. She is a PhD student in the Indigenous Studies Department and as well an award-winning hip hop performing artist. Lindsay recently completed a Canada Council for the Arts granted project titled, For Women Past Women that focused on Indigenous women in Hip Hop. Most recently, she received the University of Saskatchewan Aboriginal Graduate Scholarship. |
 | Tara MillionPhD Candidate Tara 1000000 is Nêhiyaw (Plains Cree) and is a fellow member of Saddle Lake Cree Nation located inside Treaty 6 territory in Alberta, Canada. She is actively involved in undertaking traditional experiential learning centered on the ceremonies and protocols involved with existence a pipage carrier. Tara is a doctoral student in the Department of Indigenous Studies at the Academy of Saskatchewan and is the recipient of a Dean'south Scholarship. Dr. Simon Lambert is her supervisor. Tara'southward dissertation focuses on the processes and impacts of organizational Indigenization. Her research interests include Indigenization, public policy development, organizational and workplace culture, change leadership and alter management, conflict resolution and Hour practices, community-led librarianship, applied and community-based research, Indigenous research methodologies, and paradigm shifting. Her Master'due south thesis, "Using Circular Paradigms within an Archaeological Framework: Receiving Gifts from White Buffalo Calf Woman", was completed in the Section of Anthropology at the University of Alberta and focused on developing an Indigenous archaeology. Her Masters of Library and Informatics (MLIS) had a direction specialization and was conducted entirely on-line in the Schoolhouse of Library and Information Science at San Jose State University with a culminating eastward-portfolio. Since 1999, Tara has presented regularly at regional, national, and international conferences, including Chacmool, Congress, American Anthropological Association briefing, the Globe Archaeological Congress, International Indigenous Librarians Forum, and the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association conference, on a diverseness of archaeological, library science, and Indigenous Studies topics. She has five bookish publications, primarily in archaeology, including volume chapters in Aboriginal Cultural Landscapes (2004), Indigenous Archaeology: Decolonizing Theory and Practice (2005), and Indigenous Archaeologies: A Reader on Decolonization (2010). Tara has worked for 12 years as a public library manager in a diverseness of locations: Lakeland Library Region and Saskatoon Public Library in Saskatchewan and at the Hinton Municipal Library in Alberta, where she also managed the Coal Branch Archives. During this time, she worked meantime for 7 years equally a sessional instructor at the N West Regional College and for the Dumont Technical Institute delivering a diverseness of academy, college, and adult didactics courses to rural students in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan. She has served equally a lath fellow member for a variety of local and provincial organizations and has been an Indigenous Steering Commission Member for the World Archaeological Congress (2001-2003). Currently, Tara is the Treasurer for the Library Services for Saskatchewan Aboriginal Peoples committee and represented LSSAP at the 2022 International Indigenous Librarians Forum. |
| | Swapna PadmanabhaPhD Candidate Swapna returned to her educational pursuits later a 27 yr hiatus and recently graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a iv year BA in psychology (Groovy Distinction). Swapna is particularly interested in working in the area of psychological well-being inside marginalized communities. For her thesis project she will be examining contemporizing traditional Aboriginal stories as a method of promoting education for Aboriginal men. She is currently examining the construct of Indigenous male person identity in the offset phase of her thesis project. |
 | Krystl Raven PhD Candidate Krystl Raven, a settler scholar, has spent most of her life on the prairies and returned to school as a unmarried female parent afterward owning a business in Saskatoon for almost a decade. Krystl enjoys animals and has a house filled with three dogs, one cat, and a teenager. When not busy with her school or family, Krystl tin can exist found riding her equus caballus, Cicero. Her SSHRC funded dissertation builds off of her chief'due south thesis— Across the Battle: Gabriel Dumont and Metis leadership 1837-1885— by using Gabriel Dumont as a lens into Métis identity and its connectedness to homelands, kinship, cultural capital, leadership, and memory. Krystl acknowledges the advice and knowledge that Métis community members have kindly shared with her through the process of researching and writing her dissertation. Krystl's current research interests include Métis studies, diaspora studies, political activism, leadership, adoption, biography, postcolonial history, decolonization, oral history, and customs-engaged scholarship. Krystl currently works as a writing tutor for the writing center and as a sessional for the Department of Ethnic Studies. As a showtime-generation scholar, she enjoys helping students from a wide variety of backgrounds learn to navigate academia. Publications: Wills, Jeanie, and Krystl Raven. "The Founding Five: Transformational Leadership in the New York League of Ad Women'south Club, 1912–1926." Journal of Historical Research in Marketing ahead-of-print, no. ahead-of-print (May twenty, 2020). https://doi.org/10.1108/JHRM-04-2019-0015. Raven, Krystl. "Ka Oopikihtamashook': Condign Family." Alternative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples 14, no. 4 (2018): 319–325. https://doi.org/x.1177/1177180118821170. Raven, Krystl. "'Homeland and Empires: Indigenous Spaces, Imperial Fictions and Contest for Territory in Northeastern North America 1690-1763' past Jeffers Lennox-Review." Periodical of History and Cultures, no. 9 (Feb 2019): 117–19. Selected Conference presentations:
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| | Anna SchneiderPhD Candidate Email: ans295@postal service.usask.ca Anna is an international Doctoral student from Siegen, Germany. She completed her Available of Arts in Anglophone Studies at the University of Marburg in 2013 and graduated with a Principal of Arts in Northward American Studies in 2016. During her master's program, Anna visited the University of Saskatchewan in the fall of 2022 every bit part of an exchange program betwixt the Academy of Marburg and the U of S. She was given the opportunity to take Theoretical Issues in Native Studies, aiming to receive a get-go insight into the discipline of Ethnic Studies, which is largely missing from German and by and large European university curricula. Her thesis contextualized histories of genocide in Germany and Northward America and how these histories take informed dissimilar discourses of guilt, identity, and reconciliation in nowadays-day perpetrator societies, particularly afterward WWII. Her doctoral research will tie in with these findings and explore more most German language-European, every bit well as Northward American discourses of Indigenous colonial history and genocide. |
| | Jacqueline SmithMA Educatee Jacqueline is from Opaskwayak Cree Nation and The Pas, Manitoba located in Treaty 5 territory. After completing the first year of her undergrad at the University College of the Northward in The Pas, she transferred to Dalhousie University in the fall of 2012. In 2022 she completed her Bachelor of Arts caste in French and History, with a small in Canadian Studies. Her undergraduate degree provided her with the opportunity to study in different geographic contexts including France, Northern Ireland, and Nunavut. During her undergrad, she also held many executive positions in societies including President of the Dalhousie Canadian Studies Guild, Co-President of the Dalhousie Native Educatee Association, and Vice-President of the Northern Ireland Dialogue for Peace Lodge. She is at present completing her Master of Arts caste in the Department of Indigenous Studies at the University of Saskatchewan. Her research interests include residential schools and the intergenerational furnishings of residential schools. In her thesis project, she hopes to look at the connection betwixt residential schools in Manitoba and the province's high charge per unit of Ethnic children in foster care. |
 | Elle Sina Raanes SørensenMA Student Bures, mu namma lea Elle Sina Raanes Sørensen ja mun lean Romssas eret. I am Ethnic to Sápmi that stretches across the borders of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia in Northern Europe, born on the Norwegian side of the borders. My Sámi roots come from a line of Lofoten body of water Sámis. One of them, my groovy-grandfather, found his mode to Canada during the great low, thus entangling my Sámi roots with my Canadian roots as their stories intertwined. Only when my mother was young did my family find their way back to Sápmi, to our homelands, where I was raised. Spring 2022 I completed two bachelor of Arts degrees, in Anthropology and Global Studies with a concentration in Development and Social Justice, and a pocket-sized in Native American and Indigenous Studies at Pacific Lutheran University in the US. Both theses were focused on the consequences of evolution projects on Indigenous land, specifically on the Trans Mountain Pipeline, Coastal GasLink, and the Alta case. I am an MA pupil in Indigenous Studies. My research will look at chief students' experiences inside Indigenous Studies in a comparative context betwixt Norway and Canada to understand how the subject field functions in mail service-secondary institutions and if it is coming together the expectations of students inbound the programs. I will be focusing on alumni, looking at their initial expectations and full general experiences in relation to the goals, curriculums, structures, and histories of the programs. Some of my other research interests include Indigenous (Sámi) identity politics, Indigenous feminisms, and impacts of Indigenous land and resource exploitation. |
| | Mylan TootoosisPhD Student Mylan Tootoosis is Nêhiyawpwat (Plains Cree-Nakota) from Poundmaker Indian Reserve located within Treaty Six Territory. He is currently a Doctoral Pupil in the Department of Indigenous Studies at the University of Saskatchewan. He completed his Masters of Arts in Indigenous Governance at the University of Victoria in British Columbia in 2013 and obtained his Bachelors of Arts in Indigenous Liberal Studies at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His work concentrates on the Political Ecology of Contemporary Indigenous Prairie Livelihood and Decolonization. |
 | Brittany TuffsMA Student Brittany Tuffs is a fellow member of the Kaska First Nation from Ross River, Yukon. Her Kaska upbringing fueled her motivation to attend post-secondary. She obtained a Document in Heritage and Culture, Diploma in Northern First Nation Studies from Yukon College and an Honours Undergraduate Degree in Anthropology at the Academy of British Columbia where her studies focused on the Kaska and law. Her academic interests include the following: Indigenous law, decolonization, revitalization. cocky-determination, sovereignty, not-western worldviews, ontology, state claims/treaty, land as legal pedagogy, land, constabulary, power and authority and northern development. It is for her people, for the Kaska, for her community that she carries out her master's degree in Ethnic Studies from the University of Saskatchewan. |
 | Dewi Naura VergustinaPhD Student Dewi Naura Vergustina is a Fulbright alumnus from Indonesia. She is also an agile member of the Us for Un. Naura is a generation of Indonesian Indigenous people, "Javanese," who established a Light-green generation Indonesia Customs. Naura is a doctoral student in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Saskatchewan and recipient of a dean's scholarship. Naura'south research interests include Ethnic state-based healing, Indigenous Community Date, Urban Governance Policy, Ethnic Sustainability Teaching, Republic of indonesia Indigenous Permaculture, Ethnic Education, Indigenous Local Governance. During her master's written report in the United states of america, she has written a thesis project that focuses on decolonizing education in Republic of indonesia by connecting Pancasila (Indonesia Ethnic Wisdom) and Indigenous Scientific discipline of Permaculture. She did projects to educate Indigenous customs particularly women in Westward Africa about Sustainability Education in 2018. Naura has worked for ten years at the Section of Education of Balikpapan city, Borneo island. From this work, she did several sustainability education projects while she got get-go-hand feel working with the Indigenous community in Kalimantan island. Moreover, she established a non-profit in Indonesia, "The Kampong Kalimantan Foundation." Through holistic approaches such as balancing economic, social, and environmental aspects at various levels of stakeholders, the non-turn a profit has a mission to build community resilience to improve indigenous customs welfare for sustainable living by means of supporting the regenerative systems. She is working on a four-year research projection in designing a project for a new capital of Indonesia, a collaboration betwixt RISTEK-BRIN (Indonesia Enquiry Center) and NWO (Netherland Enquiry Center). In this projection, she integrates Indigenous Wisdom of Kalimantan into Urban Governance for the Circular Region (Chemical element of modify: Edifice Skills for resiliencies in Borneo). |
 | Sarah WernerMA Educatee Sarah Werner is a settler built-in and raised in the Williams Treaty territory (Southern Ontario) with family ties to both the Due east Declension of Canada and Federal republic of germany. She holds a Available of Arts (Hons.) from Trent University with a double major in Ethnic Studies and Anthropology. Sarah is currently enrolled in the Master of Arts, Indigenous Studies at the Academy of Saskatchewan, her M.A. inquiry focuses on decolonizing the human-animal bond, specifically in therapy creature contexts. |
 | Michelle ZinckMA Student Michelle Zinck is Dënë from Fond Du Lac Dënësułinë First Nation, located in the Treaty 8 Territory of northern Saskatchewan. Michelle is main's student in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Saskatchewan. Her research is centered on community engagement and the co-development of meaningful initiatives to address the health furnishings from colonially induced environmental changes in her community and globally. Michelle'south research interests include Ethnic wellness, land and health, community-engagement, state-based healing, traditional noesis, and Indigenous food sovereignty. |
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