Students presenting on Hemispheric Indigenous Experience

Nipissing University’s Office of Aboriginal Initiatives is pleased to host an evening of student reflections on the Hemispheric Indigenous Experience Program on Tuesday, October 23 at 6:30 p.m. in the Treaty Learning Centre of the Harris Learning Library.The presentation is free of charge and all are welcome.
The Hemispheric Indigenous Experience Program is a pilot initiative of Nipissing’s Office of Aboriginal Initiatives that encourages graduate studies by extending the continuum of learning that has been developed by the office’s outreach programming.
Last August, three senior Nipissing students participated in the program.  They will present on their experiences of how they connected their Indigenous culture and ways of knowing with the Andean world in the land of the Inca, in the Quechua community of Chawaytiri. With the help of Quechua guides, senior scholarship from the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian and a team of volunteers, Nipissing students participated in a 10-day trek built on the strength, culture and traditions of the Inca world through a contemporary lens.
The Hemispheric Indigenous Experience Program is the result of a collaboration between Laurie McLaren, Executive Director of Nipissing’s Office of Aboriginal Initiatives, Dr. Jose Barreiro, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, and Asocaicion Para El Desarrollo Humano Sostenible Ayninakusunchis, a non-governmental organization in Cusco, Peru.