ABOUT
In this episode the staff and volunteers of the Giiwedin Anang Council at Aboriginal Legal Services (ALS) tell us about one place Indigenous Law isn’t just surviving, it’s thriving (and spoiler, it’s INSIDE the colonial justice system) and UT Law alum Leslie Anne St. Amour responds to some of the Sh*t Law Students Say.
Listeners can support ALS’ work and get a tax receipt by donating via Canada Helps here.
DEDICATION
This second episode of 28 is dedicated to the victims of the genocide perpetrated against Indigenous communities by the churches and Governments of Canada, and especially to all the children who were taken away to residential schools and never made it home.
Our hearts and prayers are with all those whose wounds have been, or will soon be, torn open by the finding of unmarked graves on the sites of former residential schools.
GET HELP
This podcast deals with a lot of difficult topics. Here are some resources for @UTLaw Students:
URGENT
Emergency Services: 911
UofT Community Safety Office: 416-978-1485
NOT URGENT
Email : iio.law@utoronto.ca or terry.gardiner@utoronto.ca
Mental Health Counseling: Book an appointment with the law school’s mental health counselor by calling 416-978-8030 (select 5) and identifying yourself as a law student
AFTER HOURS
My Student Support Program https://www.studentlife.utoronto.ca/hwc/myssp
24/7 1-844-451-9700
Good to Talk (student distress line): 1-866-925-5454
Toronto Distress Centre: 416-408-HELP (4357)
Gerstein Centre: 416-929-5200
For folks outside our community, please find your local resources.
GET OUTSIDE
For episode 2, we encourage listeners in the GTA to check out the park and (when it reopens) the conservatory at Allan Gardens. This beautiful park is bordered by many Indigenous organizations including Miziwe Biik, the Native Women’s Resource Centre and Anishnawbe Health. For our law student listeners, the Ontario Court of Justice’s 311 Jarvis location is a stone’s throw away. If you are able to walk a few kilometers (or jump on the Gerrard streetcar), head east on Gerrard to 1294 (just past Greenwood) and grab a delicious bison burger, a pickerel dinner or a Navajo taco at Tea N Bannock.
FURTHER READING ON INDIGENOUS LAW - link coming soon!
MIIGWETCH/NIA:WEN/MARSEE
We are grateful to our episode 2 guests: Grandmother Dorothy Peters, Knowledge Keeper Clay Shirt, John Brown and Isabelle Brown.
Also to Jordan Jamieson, Tyrell King, Mark Green and Cathie Jamieson for Biindegen and to the ILSA students and alumni who contributed to this episode: Tomas Jirosek, Conlin Delbaere-Sawchuk, Daniel Diamond, Leslie-Anne St. Amour and Editor/Producer Flint Patterson. Thanks also to our settler allies Morgan Torstensen and Bernard Carling for feigning the voice of ignorance for educational purposes. Finally miigwetch to the late Jay Bell Redbird for his painting, A Meeting Place for All Our Relations, and to Adam Kouri for assistance with the artwork for 28.