No Arms in the Arts: Treaty Principles and Palestine

​Join Chelsea Vowel and Jessica Johns for a discussion on the sacred promises of Treaty relationships, natural laws, and their connection to Palestinian solidarity. Delve into the principles of miyo-wîcêhtowin (good relations), wîtaskêwin (peaceful living together), and tâpwêwin (truth-telling), and explore how these teachings require us as writers and beings on this land to hold institutions accountable and speak out in the face of injustice. This is part of a series of Boycott Giller and No Arms in the Arts programming.

​Chelsea Vowel is Métis from manitow-sâkahikan (Lac Ste. Anne) Alberta, residing in amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton). Parent to six children, she has a BEd, LLB, and MA. Chelsea is a queer, disabled nêhiyawêwin (Cree) language instructor, public intellectual, writer, and activist educator whose work intersects language, gender, Métis self-determination, and resurgence. Author of Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada, and the short-story collection Buffalo is the New Buffalo, she and her co-host Molly Swain produce the Indigenous feminist sci-fi podcast Métis in Space, and co-founded the Métis in Space Land Trust.

​Jessica Johns is a queer nehiyaw aunty with English-Irish ancestry and a member of Sucker Creek First Nation. Author of Bad Cree and co-writer of the Cree & D radioplay series, Jessica loves to write and talk about horror, fantasy, queer Cree joy, and treaty feminism. Jess is a member of CanLit Responds.