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Writing Our Stories: Indigenous Authors & Publishers Panel In-Person
This event features two Indigenous-owned publishing houses, Ojistoh Publishing and Kegedonce Press, who will each present two of their authors for a shared reading and discussion.
Featured authors include Dawn Cheryl Hill, author of Memory Keeper, and Dr. Karenna’onwe Hill, author of The Good Mind, both Mohawk Turtle Clan, alongside D.A. Lockhart, Turtle Clan member of Eelünaapéewi Lahkéewiit (Lenape), and Coltrane Seesequasis, an Indigenous writer who grew up in Gatineau, Quebec.
Each author will read from their work, followed by a panel conversation and audience Q&A. Books will be available for purchase, and light refreshments will be provided.
Everyone is welcome. Please register on the Office of Indigenous Relations website.
- Date:
- Thursday, June 11, 2026
- Time:
- 1:30pm - 3:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Dana Porter Library - lobby
- Campus:
- University of Waterloo - Main Campus
- Audience:
- Community Members Faculty / Instructors Graduate Students Undergraduate Students Waterloo staff
- Categories:
- Discussion
Event Support
Graham Yeates is an administrative assistant at the University of Waterloo Libraries. He helps coordinate event registration. If you have questions about this event, please contact him at libevents@uwaterloo.ca.
Kevin George is Cree/Potawatomi, Fish Clan, from Kettle and Stony Point First Nation with matrilineal family on Fort McMurray 468 First Nation on Treaty 8 territory. Kevin enjoys a relational approach as an engaged Indigenous community member, facilitator and advisor, rooted in traditional knowledge and culture. In addition to his responsibilities in the community, he is currently the associate sirector, Indigenous initiatives at the University of Waterloo Libraries.
Facilitator(s)
Event support
Associate Director - Indigenous Initiatives
Event Coordinator
Administrative Assistant