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Starting a Conversation with Denica Bleau: Indigenous Land-based Program Framework for Criminalization and Institutionalization
February 5 at 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Denica Bleau. Photo credit: Yarrow Froehler
Abstract
Imprisonment within Canada has been used as early as 1849 to exercise control over Indigenous populations and extinguish Indigenous rights, resulting in trauma and detrimentally affecting the mental, emotional, spiritual, physical and economic health of Indigenous peoples and Nations.
Denica has been working with Splatsin, an Indigenous community within the Secwepemc Nation, to develop an Indigenous Land-based Program Framework, for individuals who have been criminalized and/or institutionalized (prison) and are returning to community. Through Story, Denica will reflect about her approach to research, community partnership, and being led by an Indigenous Land-based Story Methodology.
Bio
Denica Bleau is a Métis counsellor, advocate, and artist, originally from Treaty 4. Denica has worked/volunteered within the Indigenous communities of Turtle Island, Pictish and Gaelic Celt (Celtic), and Incan Territories, in the realms of counselling within prison and following release. Denica’s research is focused on Indigenous Land-based healing from the effects of criminalized and institutionalized trauma. Denica was awarded an ICER Student CER award in 2024.
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