2024 James A. Jackson Memorial Lecture
Challenging Histories: How Prioritizing Indigenous Experiences Can Help Us Understand Our Shared Past
With Dr. Lianne Leddy, Wilfred Laurier University
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
200 Education Building
Everyone is welcome. Light refreshments will be available.
Reconsider the history of the land now known as Canada through an Indigenous lens. Using research from her award-winning 2022 book, Serpent River Resurgence: Confronting Uranium Mining at Elliot Lake (University of Toronto Press), Leddy will examine how homeland, water, and responsibility are central to Indigenous histories. She argues that prioritizing Indigenous experiences can enrich our understandings of the past and challenge colonial narratives.
Dr. Lianne Leddy is an associate professor of history at Wilfrid Laurier University and a member of Serpent River First Nation. Her research focuses on Indigenous history in what is now Canada, with a focus on land, gender, and historical methods. Her work has appeared in the Canadian Historical Review, NAIS, Oral History Forum, and Herizons.