Adam North Peigan
Président
Adam North Peigan
Adam is from Treaty 7 and is Blackfoot from the Piikani First Nation in Southern, Alberta. Adam is a product of the Residential School and a survivor of the Sixties Scoop. Adam’s career has been spent in advocating for Indigenous people and creating awareness of the colonialism and oppressive actions as a result of government policies being imposed on the Indigenous people in Canada. Adam is the past President of the “Sixties Scoop Indigenous Society of Alberta” (SSISA). Through Adam’s leadership SSISA was able to work with the Alberta Government in the issuance of an apology from former Premier Rachel Notley on May 28e, 2018 to all survivors of the Sixties Scoop.
Adam has been an educator at the University of Alberta, University of Calgary and University of British Columbia. Adam has served public office as a Governor to the South Fraser Health Region in BC and also as an elected member of the Piikani First Nation Chief and Council. Adam has been instrumental in the development of an Indigenous Training module for the College of Alberta Registered Nurses Association, the Alberta Teachers Association and the City of Calgary Police. Adam has been employed in senior management positions with Tribal Governments and the not for profit sector in Alberta and BC. Adam has been awarded the Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee Medal for his significant contributions to the Province of Alberta in moving reconciliation forward for all Canadians.
Currently Adam is the Senior Engagement Advisor in the Indigenous Wellness Core working with the Wisdom Council at Alberta Health Services.
Dr Allyson Stevenson
Vice Président
Dr Allyson Stevenson
Allyson Stevenson is Métis scholar and adoptee whose family is from Kinistino, SK, raised in Regina. She joined the Indigenous Studies Department at the University of Saskatchewan as the Gabriel Dumont Chair of Métis Research in July 2020. She obtained her PhD in History from the University of Saskatchewan in 2015. From 2016-2017 she was the inaugural Aboriginal Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Guelph where she worked on developing a historical analysis of Indigenous women’s political organizing in Saskatchewan during the 1970’s. From January 2018 to June 2020, she was an assistant professor at the University of Regina in the department of Politics and International Studies and a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples and Global Social Justice. Her current research specializes in histories of Indigenous women’s political organizing, the Sixties Scoop, Metis history, and settler-colonialism. Her book, Intégration intime : la rafle des années 60 et la colonisation de la parenté autochtone was published with the University of Toronto Press in Dec. 2020. She is a mother to four amazing children and lives in her Métis family’s ancestral homeland after coming home in 1998. She is proud that her children are the seventh generation of Fidler descendants to reside in Flett’s Springs Sk.
Nina Segalowitz
Trésorière / Secrétaire
Nina Segalowitz
Nina est née à Fort Smith, dans les Territoires du Nord-Ouest, et est Inuvialuit et Dene. En plus d'être fière d'être mère de trois enfants, Nina est intervenante en service communautaire depuis 25 ans. Elle est consultante culturelle pour les Forces armées canadiennes, le service de police de la ville de Montréal, en plus des universités et des écoles. Elle anime également l'exercice de couverture KAIROS, qui comprend le partage de ses expériences en tant que survivant de la scoop des années 60. Actuellement, Nina détient un BA en relations humaines appliquées et travaille comme consultante culturelle. Nina a été nommée au conseil d'administration de la Legacy of Hope Foundation en janvier 2018.
Hatav Chalileh
Membre du conseil
Hatav Chalileh
En tant que colon au Canada, et plus particulièrement sur le territoire algonquin anishinaabeg non cédé connu sous le nom d'Ottawa à l'âge de six ans, Hatav Shalileh est motivée à mettre en commun ses antécédents et ses expériences en travail social, gestion de projet, planification d'événements et collecte de fonds, le travail de politique et de stratégie, l'analyse de données, et la recherche et l'établissement de rapports pour soutenir le travail de la Fondation autochtone de l'espoir. Siégeant à deux autres conseils et engagée avec d'autres services et organisations communautaires à Ottawa, Hatav tirera parti de ses réseaux et de ses compétences pour étendre le travail d'une importance cruciale de la Fondation autochtone de l'espoir en sensibilisant à l'histoire et aux impacts intergénérationnels continus de la résidence et de la journée. Le système scolaire et la Rafle des années 60 qui a suivi sur les survivants autochtones, leurs descendants et leurs communautés, en vue de favoriser l'apprentissage, l'action et la réconciliation, aux niveaux local et national.
