Month: June 2024

Some photos from Tuesday’s “Our Rooted Relatives” presentation. We were honored to host Elder Betty McKenna from Sapotawayak Reserve, Treaty 4 Manitoba, who shared her vast wisdom about traditional medicinal plants and their centuries-long use in Indigenous culture (including a hands-on sampling of dried herbs, leaves and seeds.) Afterwards, Dr. Fidji Gendron from the First Nations University of Canada presented on her ongoing work with Elder Betty.

This event was part of National Indigenous History Month at the Archer Library & Archives.

Join the Dr. John Archer Library & Archives on June 25th, 2024 as we celebrate National Indigenous History Month and National Indigenous Peoples Day.

Elder Betty McKenna (Sapotawayak Reserve, Treaty 4 Territory in Manitoba) and Dr. Fidji Gendron (Associate Dean [Academic] and Professor of Biology at First Nations University of Canada) will present on the importance of flora and land-based knowledge from an Indigenous worldview. This event is free and open to the public.

Learn more about some medicinal properties of plants by visiting our guide and entering a student contest at https://library.uregina.ca/librarycontest/indigenousplants

Join the Dr. John Archer Library & Archives on June 25, 2024 as it helps celebrate National Indigenous History Month and National Indigenous Peoples Day.

Elder Betty McKenna, from Sapotawayak Reserve, Treaty 4 Territory in Manitoba and Dr. Fidji Gendron, Associate Dean (Academic) and Professor of Biology at First Nations University of Canada, will present on the importance of flora and land-based knowledge from an Indigenous worldview. This event is free and open to the public.

Learn more about some medicinal properties of plants by visiting our guide and entering a student contest at https://library.uregina.ca/librarycontest/indigenousplants.

June is Indigenous History Month and as part of our celebrations we’ve created an interactive online game about indigenous medicinal plants. Navigate a helpful bunny in and around the virtual Archer Library to collect plants to help a sick friend, either on your smartphone or using a desktop keyboard. Full instructions, as well as a link to the game, can be found here:

https://library.uregina.ca/librarycontest/indigenousplants

Also at that link is a related online contest about indigenous medicinal plants, which is open to currently registered U of R students (and those registered with the federated colleges.) The first ten entries will win library prize bags!

Congratulations to the latest winner of our annual Dr. John Archer Library Award, Lindsay Demchuk, who’s winning essay was about her final project for ARTH 324: Canadian Identity and Cultural Identity. “I am very interested in Regina-based art history,” Demchuk writes, “especially the “Regina Clay” ceramic folk art movement. My electronic exhibition included a return to the “Canada Trajectoires ‘73” exhibition, which was held in Paris in 1973 and involved a number of ceramists connected to Regina Clay. I obtained the French-language exhibition catalogue through the Archer Library. The catalogue significantly informed my report, entitled ‘Regina 1973: Trajectories in Clay’.”

You can read Lindsay’s work at this link:

https://hdl.handle.net/10294/5336

as well as entries from previous award winners going back to 2012.