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 /\n	\n	In this Indigenous Awareness Week talk\, Ktunaxa poet and PhD Candida
 te\, Smokii Sumac\, will share stories of his many journeys 'home\,' as an
  Indigenous adoptee and two-spirit person\, in ceremony\, with chosen fami
 ly\, within his nation\, and to his homelands. While stories of loss and d
 evastation tend to forefront today's conversations on Indigenous issues\, 
 Sumac argues that we must seek out and share narratives of returning\, rem
 embering\, and what Gerald Vizenor calls 'survivance' in order to learn to
  restore and celebrate the relationships that colonization seeks to destro
 y: relationships with the land\, our bodies\, our selves\, families\, comm
 unities\, nations\, knowledges and ceremonies. With a background in Indige
 nous literary studies\, Sumac weaves thoughtful analysis of Indigenous wor
 ks such as Cherie Dimaline's the Marrow Thieves\, Jeff Barnaby's Rhymes fo
 r Young Ghouls\, and Linda Hogan's Solar Storms with deeply personal and m
 oving stories of his own experiences learning what it means to come home. 
 Smokii Sumac is a proud member of the Ktunaxa nation located in what is cu
 rrently southeastern British Columbia. They are a PhD Candidate in Indigen
 ous Studies at Trent University where their research centres on “coming ho
 me” as a Ktunaxa adoptee and two-spirit person. Smokii identifies as queer
 \, transmasculine\, two-spirit\, a poet\, and uncle\, and auntie and a cat
  person. They accept he/him/his or they/them/theirs pronouns. Co-presented
  by the Institute for Gender\, Sexuality and Feminist Studies and Indigeno
 us Awareness Week. Part of the IGSF year long series: “The Arts of Trans\,
  Gender Diverse and Two-Spirit Lives”\, funded by the Social Sciences and 
 Humanities Research Council of Canada.\n
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180927
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SUMMARY:Talk by Smokii Sumac: 'On Coming Home: Stories from a Two-Spirit Ad
 optee'
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