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Dr Catherine Kineweskwêw Richardson, PhD

Director First Peoples Studies, School of Community and Public Affairs
Full Professor & FPST Director , School of Community and Public Affairs
Co-founder Centre for Response-Based Practice
Co-Director of the Centre for Oral HIstory and Storytelling
Advisory Member - OWH -Institute Quebec
Adjunct Professor University of Victoria School of Social Work

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Dr Catherine Kineweskwêw Richardson, PhD
I acknowledge the traditional Kanien' kehà ka caretakers of the land, the Ancestors and Mother Earth
Lisa Graves
Phone: (514) 848-2424 ext. 2532
Email: catherine.richardson@concordia.ca
Website(s): Centre for Response-Based Practice
cathyrichardsonauthor.com
Indigenous Healing Knowledges Project
Availability: By appointment and through chance encounters in community.
ORCID: 0000 00017846 0558

Teaching activities

FPST 301 The Indian Act (and resistance to it!)

In this class, we will study pertinent aspects of oppressive colonial government policy through the Indian Act and through the agenda of the British upper class and ruling empire on northern Turtle Island.  We will look at how Indigenous People, Status First Nations (as well as Métis and Inuit) resisted the cruel and savage oppression as delivered through The Indian Act (and through its related policy of European racial superiority and domination).  Guest speakers will include Christopher Reid, Marie Cornellier (approaches to decolonization in the settler society).  The professor will aim to create an atmosphere of cultural safety, respect towards Indigenous people, of ethical dialogue and open-hearted sharing.  All our relations!

FPST 398 Indigenous Approaches to Helping and Healing


In this class, we will explore Indigenous worldview, values and beliefs that  underly views on well-being, recovery and healing from illness or adversity.  This course will involve a number of approaches and pedagogies, including talking, reading, experiencing and building an atmosphere of safety and trust in the classroom.  Guest speakers will include Vicky Boldo and Moe Clark.


Publications

Interview with Cathy Richardson and Elizabeth Fast on CBC Radio One-Let’s Go! Thursday

look under: Feb 13, 2020: Concordia's First Peoples Studies

CBC Noon with Shawn Appel

In this program, Catherine Richardson is a guest panelist discussing the Pope's Apology to Residential School survivors in Canada

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-102-radio-noon-quebec/clip/15927574-feeling-popes-visit

Reparations to Indigenous People Are Critical After Pope's Apology

This article was published in The Conversation

Reparations to Indigenous People Are Critical After Pope's Apology
https://theconversation.com/reparations-to-indigenous-peoples-are-critical-after-popes-apology-for-residential-schools-187823?fbclid=IwAR0J4YmEqDcKiJJO-JBJluDoBMFQKge8_2-HBA8rm0qMLR1EyoC3zPZgOoc

En français
 https://theconversation.com/apres-les-excuses-du-pape-voici-le-temps-des-reparations-188336


Healing and Rebalancing in the Aftermath of Colonial Violence

          Richardson, C., Aviles-Betel, K., Ismail-Allouche, Z., Picard, V. (2021). Healing and Rebalancing in the Aftermath of Colonial Violence: An Indigenous-Informed, Response-Based Approach.   Genealogy 5(3). https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy5030069

          https://www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/5/3/69

Miskâsowin – Returning to the body, remembering what keeps us alive.

         Clark, M., Allouche-Ismail, Z., Richardson, C.  (2021). Miskâsowin – Returning to the body, remembering what keeps us alive.  Genealogy, 5(2), 34; https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy5020034

Ellen Maria Ekström and the Stories that Connect Us

          Richardson, C. & Lowenborg, C.  (2019).  Ellen Maria Ekström and the stories that connect us.  Genealogy, 3(2), 1-5.  https://doi.org/10.3390/geneaology3020025

  

          https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333344326_Ellen-Maria_Ekstrom_and_the_Stories_That_Connect_Us

Victim-blaming and the Crisis in Representation in the Violence Prevention Field.

         Richardson, C., Fast, E. (2019).  Victim-blaming and the crisis in representation in the violence prevention field. In C. Richardson & E. Fast (Eds).  Life Matters :  Acknowledging victim resistance and the power of social responses.  International Journal of the Child, Youth and Family Studies,  10(1), 1-2.  DOI: 10.18357/ijcyfs101201918803


https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331139661_VICTIM-BLAMING_AND_THE_CRISIS_OF_REPRESENTATION_IN_THE_VIOLENCE_PREVENTION_FIELD

Beauty and the Beast: Misrepresentation and Social Responses in Fairytale Romance and Redemption.

Coates, L., Bonnah, S. & Richardson, C. (2018). Beauty and the Beast: Misrepresentation and Social Responses in Fairytale Romance and Redemption.  In C. Richardson & E. Fast (Eds).  Life Matters :  Acknowledging victim resistance and the power of social responses. International Journal of the Child, Youth and Family Studies, 10(1), 1-2.  DOI: 10.18357/ijcyfs101201918803

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331136844_BEAUTY_AND_THE_BEAST_MISREPRESENTATION_AND_SOCIAL_RESPONSES_IN_FAIRY-TALE_ROMANCE_AND_REDEMPTION

Relating to illness in therapy: A pilgrimate through uncertain terrain.

      Richardson, C.  (2018).  Relating to illness in therapy:  A pilgrimage         through uncertain terrain.  Murmurations.  Journal of Transformative Relational Practice. 1(2), 14-26. DOI: http://doi.org/10.28963/1.2

    https://murmurations.cloud/ojs/index.php/murmurations/article/view/34

Healing the Healer: Restoring a Métis Debrouillard heart with the tools of an Indigenous-oriented ethnopsychology.

       Gurr, E., Richardson, C.  (2021).  Healing the healer:  Restoring a Métis debrouillard heart with the tools of an Indigenous-oriented ethnopsychology.  In C. Richardson & J. Carriere [Eds.]. Speaking the Wisdom of Our Time.  pp. 87-110.  Vernon, BC:  JCharlton Publishing. 


https://www.cavershambooksellers.com/search/1926476352

Facing the Mountain: Indigenous Healing in the Shadow of Colonialism

       Richardson, C. (2021).  Facing the mountain:  Indigenous healing in the shadow of colonialism.  Vernon, B.C.: JCharlton Publishing.


Interviews

2020-02-14 Cathy Richardson on CBC Radio One-Noon with Shawn Apel

look under: Feb 14, 2020: Wet’suwet’en protests spread across Canada

2020-02-13 Cathy Richardson and Elizabeth Fast on CBC Radio One Let’s Go!

look under: Feb 13, 2020: Concordia's First People Studies
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-383-lets-go


Artistic performances

Project/Cultural Advisor for Justement Enracinée

       Justement enracinée
       Justement (en)raciner     (video : Jad Orphée CHAMI, Ange GUO & kimura                byol lemoine | Moe Clark, Soleil Launière & Maya Cousineau Mollen, 

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