Lunch and Learn Dish With One Spoon Wampum with Rick Hill Sr.

Indigenous Education Week: OISE Lunch 'n Learn with Rick Hill Sr. on the Dish With One Spoon Wampum. Virtual lecture hosted by the Indigenous Education Network on November 19, 2020.
Wampum belts are visual memory keepers that mark significant events and codify agreements. For Indigenous Education Week this year, the Dean's Advisory Council on Indigenous Education (DACIE) and the Indigenous Education Network (IEN) are hosting a Lunch 'n Learn session that welcomes OISE staff, faculty and students to learn about the Dish With One Spoon wampum. This wampum marks an agreement originally made between the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe, and extended to other communities over time. It models how relationships should be formed and maintained in the lands and waters that include Tkaronto.
A representation of the Dish With One Spoon wampum has been incorporated into the OISE lobby, and so we encourage our colleagues and the OISE community to learn more and consider how these philosophies might guide how you live and work on this territory.
Speaker bio:
Rick Hill Sr. is a citizen of the Beaver Clan of the Tuscarora Nation of the Haudenosaunee at Grand River. He holds a Master’s Degree in American Studies from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the former Assistant Director for Public Programs, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution; Museum Director, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM; and Assistant Professor, Native American Studies, SUNY Buffalo. He recently retired as Senior Project Coordinator of the Deyohahá:ge: Indigenous Knowledge Centre at Six Nations Polytechnic, Ohsweken, Ontario. Rick is currently working as an interpretive specialist to develop exhibitions for the recently renovated Mohawk Institute, the oldest Indian residential school in Canada.