All recordings of the presentations for the 4 Seasons of Indigenous Learning 2024-2025 Course are posted here.
- These will be available until September 30, 2025, with the exception of Dr. Gregory Cajete’s presentation, which as shared previously via email, was only available for 1 month after the live presentation.
- For those that you watch live, or the recordings of, you can submit for a Certificate of Attendance (1 Learning Hour / Presentation)
May 22, 2025: Launa Purcell and Sherrelle Anderson
Launa Payne is a member of Xa’xtsa (hackshaw) First Nation. She is an Indigenous Educator with a focus on outdoor education. Launa teaches yoga and mindfulness in addition to Indigenous outdoor camps. Launa is the proud mother of two adult children. She has published 2 books – Heartbeat of the Earth and Whispers of the Earth on Indigenous teachings and connection to the land.
Sherrelle Anderson is a member of the Saddle Lake First Nation. She is a Social Worker with a focus on Indigenous wellness. Sherrelle is an Indigenous outreach Worker who also teaches a number of Indigenous programs throughout BC. Sherrelle is the proud mother of three school aged daughters.
May 1, 2025: Micaela Iron Shell-Dominguez and Renée Chacon
Renée M. Chacon, is the Co Founder/ Executive Director of Womxn from the Mountain an Indigenous Womxn led nonprofit for transforming education through justice, art, and cultural education including as a Sahumadora en Danza Azteca. Co Commissioner of Equity Analysis of Cumulative Impacts on the Environmental Justice Action Task force for Colorado, Commerce City Council Womxn for Ward 3 in Commerce City Colorado.
Micaela Iron Shell-Dominguez is a Chi-changu Lakota, Apache, and Xicana woman born and raised in Denver, Colorado. She first, is a MOTHER to two beautiful children, a human rights advocate, a co-founder and adult mentor for the International Indigenous Youth Council 5280, Co-Founder of Womxn from the Mountain and program coordinator and an actor for the Anishinaabe Theatre Exchange, and lastly co-owner of Moonshell Pizza Cooperative. She works hard every day to fight for environmental justice, and social justice for those of us existing today, and for our future generations, but most importantly she works hard to bring women of all backgrounds together in a way that allows them to empower each other and create strong, matriarchal bonds for future generations. Her continued pursuit is to help spread awareness and stop the violence our women and two-spirit people who have endured for centuries.
April 10 – Sasha Eugene
Sasha Eugene saw her first sunrise in Invermere, British Columbia. Her first gifted home was to the Sexwepmec’u’lecw. By blood she is Kinbasket, Secwepemc, and Russian. In the early 2000’s she moved to her second gifted home in Siksika, Alberta. Sasha enjoys being out in creation with her son and new born daughter. They practice hunting, berry picking, gathering traditional medicine, dancing, and playing lahal. Growing up she was fortunate to have many teachers and supporters to help teach and guide her along the Red Road. Sasha is grateful to have the chance to learn and practice the language of her two homes, Secwépemctsín and Siksiká.https://youtu.be/zhDadG6loKA
Sasha is the author of Nínem, a poetry collection that walks us through a battle with grief and depression. Over the years grief and all the stages that accompany it have been no stranger to the author.
March 6 – Christi Belcourt
Christi Belcourt (apihtâwikosisâniskwêw / mânitow sâkahikanihk) is a Métis visual artist, author, community organizer, environmentalist, social justice advocate, and avid land-based arts and language learner.
A recipient of several awards of note including a Premier’s Award in the Arts, a Governor General’s Award for Innovation and an Honorary Doctorates from both Algoma University and Wilfrid Laurier University. Her paintings are found within many public and permanent collections across North America.
Christi has also organized several large national community-based projects of note including Walking With Our Sisters, the Willisville Mountain Project, and various works done with Onaman Collective. She donates much of her time and income to supporting Indigenous language revitalization.
She is the author of Medicines to Help Us: Traditional Métis Plant Use, which, using her artwork, has been turned into a beautiful Medicines to Help Us Kit (Book and Beautiful Prints).
Feb 27 – Jo Chrona
Jo Chrona is a speaker, education consultant, Indigenous education advocate, and author of Wayi Wah! Indigenous Pedagogies: An Act for Reconciliation and Anti-Racist Education (2022). Jo’s professional experience includes over 25 years teaching in both the K-12 and post-secondary systems in BC, working as a Policy Analyst and Curriculum Manager for the First Nations Education Steering Committee (FNESC), an Advisor to the BC Ministry of Education, and a Faculty Associate in s BC Teacher Education Program.
Jan 16 – Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer
Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.
She is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (now adapted for young adults also), Gathering Moss and her newly released title ‘The Serviceberry: An Economy of Gifts and Abundance’.
She lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.
Nov 21 – Richard Van Camp
Richard Van Camp is a proud member of the Dogrib (Tłı̨chǫ) Nation from Fort Smith, NWT, Canada.
He is a graduate of the En’owkin International School of Writing, the University of Victoria’s Creative Writing BFA Program, and the Master’s Degree in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia.
He is an internationally renowned storyteller and best-selling author, including the co-author of The Journey Forward: 2 Novellas on Reconciliation for Youth. Check out Richard’s website.
Oct 24 – Shelly Boyd & LaRae Wiley
Her work revolves around rights, title and interests of the Sinixt including the recent win at the Supreme Court of Canada which effectively reversed six decades of extinction. Shelly grew up in Inchelium on the Colville Indian Reservation with her six siblings, mother, grandmother, grandfather and great grandmother. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Eastern Washington University and a Master’s in Education from Gonzaga University. Shelly is also a producer of the film “Older than the Crown”.
LaRae Wiley is Sn̓ʕay̓čkstx (Arrow Lakes Band) and a member of the Colville Confederated Tribes. She is the Executive Director and founder of Salish School of Spokane. SSOS is a non-profit organization that operates an immersion childcare/preschool center, a Private Salish immersion elementary school, a Native Youth Empowerment Program for secondary students, and a Salish language training program for staff, Parents and community members. At the school they are working to preserve their highly endangered language and culture for future generations.
LaRae earned her BA from Eastern Washington University in 1990 and is a Washington State certified teacher. She has previously worked as an instructor for Colville Tribal Head Start, Spokane Tribal Head Start, Chewelah School District, Spokane Tribal College, Spokane Falls Community College, and Eastern Washington University.
