Metis Matters -- Indigenous Speakers' Series

Topic: Rotary District Indigenous Committee - Speaker Series - Guest Speaker Dr. Yvonne Poitras-Pratt

Time: Tuesday June 22, 2021 – 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm 

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Metis Matters

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Dr. Yvonne Poitras-Pratt

Dr. Yvonne Poitras Pratt (Métis) is an Associate Professor at the Werklund School of Education,

University of Calgary, in Alberta, Canada. Her ancestral roots trace back to the historic Red River

settlement and more recently to Fishing Lake Métis Settlement in northeastern Alberta. Yvonne

worked with members of the Fishing Lake community to create a series of 19 intergenerational

digital stories and this work is detailed in the 2020 Routledge publication of Digital Storytelling

in Indigenous Education: A Decolonizing Journey for a Metis Community. Yvonne has published

in the realm of social justice, media studies, Métis studies, reconciliatory pedagogy, service-

learning, and the integration of arts in education. She earned a Werklund Teaching Excellence

Award in 2016, a Students Union Teaching Excellence Award in 2017, the Confederation of

Alberta Faculty Associations (CAFA) Distinguished Academic Early Career Award in 2018, and

the Alan Blizzard Award for Collaborative Teaching in 2021.