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One Dish One Spoon Retreat 2025

This week, I attended a wonderful retreat One Dish One Spoon, organized by the Elizabeth O’Brien, the liason librarian for CMS and anthropology. I took some notes in my daily carry journal. These will be totally useless for anyone else, but I hope they remind me of what I learned here.

• Famous wampum belts:
  • Two row
  • Dish with one spoon
• What is wealth?
  • How big is your family?
  • Do they love you?
  • Do you do ceremony?
  • Do you have your languages?
• About culture and language: don’t say to youself “my kids won’t ever use this”. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. We can’t know NOW what they’ll use of need later on.
• Different notions of success.
  • Leading the hood = success
  • Being yourself = success
• Question: As a contemporary Canadian (or international student) who has no part in colonisation, why does all this stuff matter to me?
  • Answer: You are drinking downstream from colonisation.
• What treaty covers the UTSC Campus? The Williams Treaty?
• nativeland.ca: interactive map of treaties
• Seven core teachings
  • Courage
  • Respect
  • Humility
  • Honesty
  • Many Truths
  • Love
  • Wisdom
• This is a an odd tid-bit from talking with a colleague before either of us had coffee: “speculative realism” (an imaginary genre)
• Deep listening (dadirri - Australian term)
  • Beyond words
  • Community building
  • Ancient knowledge
  • Spiritual practice
  • Self-reflectin
• Close your eyes and look at each other as spiritual beings
• Every child matters.
  • What matters to every child?
• Research assignment: ask someone to teaching you something
• An activity: go outside in nature and notice seven things.
  • I noticed
  • I am
  • We are
• Honouring genealogy of knowledge
• Botanist pace: a leisure-ly strolling pace stopping to look a lots of plants
• Organizations
  • SOIL: School of Indigenous Learning
  • OISE seed library
• The founding of University of Toronto pre-dates the formation of Canada
• Book: Joshua Whitehead: Johnny Appleseed

Published: Apr 29, 2025 @ 19:12.
Last Modified: May 2, 2025 @ 17:25.

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