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faire de la place aux peuples et aux savoirs autochtones

Le Comité permanent des savoirs autochtones du Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (Conseil des bibliothèques universitaires des Prairies et du Pacifique) crée un environnement qui soutient les initiatives qui font de la place aux peuples et aux savoirs autochtones et qui cherchent à amplifier les voix des employé.e.s de bibliothèques autochtones. Travaillant dans un cadre de consortium régional, le comité soutient les initiatives de décolonisation et d'indigénisation du COPPUL au nom de ses bibliothèques membres. Nous invitons les membres de l’ACBES à se joindre à nous pour réfléchir aux moyens de faire de la place dans nos bibliothèques aux voix et approches autochtones.

Biographies disponibles en anglais uniquement.

Ashley Edwards

Ashley Edwards is a Métis-settler librarian working as the Indigenous Initiatives librarian at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby campus located on the shared territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem) Nations. Her Métis ancestors are from the Red River Settlement area, specifically St. Francis Xavier, where they took scrip. Ashley is a long standing member of SFU Library’s Decolonizing the Library Working Group, and the lead developer of the Indigenous Curriculum Resource Centre. She has been a member of COPPUL’s Indigenous Knowledge Standing Committee since 2021. Ashley is also a sessional instructor in Langara College’s Library and Information Technology diploma program, and a PhD student in the Faculty of Education at SFU, where her research looks at LIS education, decolonization, and the inclusion of Indigenous topics

Deborah Lee

Deborah Lee is Cree-Metis, with family from the Lac Ste. Anne, Onoway & St. Albert communities near amiskwaciy waskahigan (Edmonton). These Metis communities go back to the early 1800's, following the fur trade using what are now known as the Sturgeon and North Saskatchewan river systems. Her kohkum and father's first language was Cree (nehiyawewin). She also has French-Canadian ancestry on her mother's side. Deborah started her librarian career at Library & Archives Canada, then worked in several roles (including Team Leader for the I-Portal and Indigenous Studies and Initiatives Librarian) for 16 years at the University of Saskatchewan Library in Saskatoon. She was also the Indigenous Knowledge Coordinator at COPPUL for 3 years (part-time). Deborah retired from USask in 2023 with the designation of Librarian Emerita. She has presented and published widely on many aspects of Indigenous Librarianship. Currently, she lives in amiskwaciy waskahigan and works part-time at Theatre Alberta as the Indigenous Theatre Library Collection Manager, a position which enhances her long-time interest and involvement with Indigenous theatre.