Renowned Métis author Katherena Vermette will read from her work and engage in a conversation with Cree-Métis scholar Deanna Reder Chair of Indigenous Studies at Simon Fraser University, on a range of issues related to the conference theme, "Unsettling Victorians." As a writer who addresses colonial history and the ongoing legacy of colonial violence, gender oppression, and land dispossession in her fiction and poetry, Katherena Vermette's work powerfully speaks both to the erasure of Indigenous history and peoples and to new possibilities of futurity for Métis and Indigenous communities.

 

Bio: Katherena Vermette (she/her/hers) is a Red River Métis (Michif) writer from Treaty 1 territory, the heart of the Métis Nation. She has worked in poetry, novels, children’s literature, and film.

 

Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, her father’s roots run deep in St. Boniface, St. Norbert and beyond. Her mother’s side is Mennonite from the Altona and Rosenfeld area (Treaty 1).