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2025 Misko Aki Knowledge Exchange

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Making Liveable Worlds

An opportunity for Indigenous, Black, and racialized community helpers involved in local, place-based initiatives to deepen and expand knowledge on making liveable worlds through intensive learning.

Applications will open on February 10, 2024 for the Misko Aki Knowledge Exchange spring session, running throughout May 2025.

The Misko Aki Knowledge Exchange (MAKE) is a tuition-free, non-accredited, educational program. This innovative program explores the many ways academics, artists, and activists make liveable worlds informed by Indigenous and decolonial perspectives and research.  The Misko Aki Knowledge Exchange is grounded in theoretical learning and practical application; it aims to be rigorous, intentional, and devoted to transformation and revitalization. The lessons of this interactive and collaborative program can be applied to learner’s professional and personal activities and pursuits.

LOCATION

Virtual + In-Person in Toronto, Ontario

COST

There are no fees for the Misko Aki Knowledge Exchange. Yellowhead Institute will cover the costs for students’ travel, accommodation, and meal expenses to participate in the required in-person intensive session.

POTENTIAL TOPICS

  • Online Movements, IRL Social Change
  • Cultivating Intergenerational Spaces
  • Embodied Learning Through Somatics
  • Stop Doomscrolling and Decolonize Emergency Preparedness
  • Get That Bag: Redistributing Wealth

ABOUT OUR NAME

Our program is named after Anishinaabe leader William Yellowhead (1760-1865), who was also known as Misko Aki or ‘Red Earth.’ With support to name our Institute after Chief Yellowhead from the Yellowhead family as well as the Rama First Nation Chief & Council, we strive to honour the legacy of Misko Aki. Our  program builds on Radical Policy School 2024.

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