Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Biography
Brenda Wastasecoot is Cree from Churchill, Manitoba. She is a mother, grandmother, and great-great Aunt of the Wastasecoot and Brightnose family. Their roots begin from the York Factory fur trading post, flowing south along the Hudson Bay railway to Winnipeg. Currently, Dr. Wastasecoot teaches at the University of Toronto, where she resides in Toronto. She consults with the Arts & Science Faculty members to better reflect the historic truth and to open doors to reconciliation. Dr. Wastasecoot’s doctoral dissertation is title: “Showing and Telling the Story of Nikis: Arts Based Auto-ethnographic Journeying of a Cree Adult Educator.” In telling the stories from a memory map of her childhood home in the 1960’s she exposes the impacts of the Residential School policy.
Publications
- Nikis memory map: A Cree girl speaks from the past. ( : 2015)
- Down the flats (Highwater Press : 2012)
- Granny’s Giant Bannock (Pemmican Publications : 2008)
- Culturally appropriate healing and counselling: One woman’s path toward healing (Kingfisher Publications : 2000)