Red Dress Day is a time of remembrance, reflection, and collective responsibility. It honours the lives of Indigenous women, girls, and gender-diverse relatives who have been taken too soon and acknowledges the ongoing impacts of gender-based and colonial violence across Turtle Island. The red dress has become a powerful symbol - representing both the absence of those lost and a call to action for justice and change. At the University of Toronto Mississauga, the Office of Indigenous Initiatives (OII) has installed a Red Dress Day installation to honour and recognize this important day. This installation serves as a space for learning, reflection, and acknowledgement of the ongoing crisis and its impacts on Indigenous families and communities.
We warmly invite all members of the UTM community - students, staff, faculty, and librarians - to visit the installation located in the Student Services Hub (Cove area). We encourage you to take time to engage with the installation, reflect, and deepen your understanding of the significance of this day.
The UTM Indigenous Centre invites you to join us for a beading flower hair pins, pin or keychain.
This is a time we gather and bead, there will be three options if there is no interest in beading hair pins, there is an option for a keychain or pin. Beading supplies will be provided. (Needles to be returned)
When: Friday, May 22nd from 1 - 5 PM
Where: The Lodge and Tipi (Weather purposes: room 6104 is going to be available)
Registration required limited supplies
Light refreshments and snacks provided.
Please note, the UTM Indigenous Centre will send a confirmation email to confirm your registration.
If you require accommodation(s) to attend this in-person event, please email [email protected]
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“I wanted to highlight the importance of Indigenous ways of knowing; through stories, ceremony, oral traditions and observing the land.” 💙 Check out a vibrant new mural created by undergrad MJ Singleton that now spans six floor-to-ceiling panes of glass at the entrance of the UTM library. 🎨
Aaniin folks, due to unforseen circumstances our afternoon Tea and Craft is being moved to Wednesday, April 22.
Please join the Indigenous Centre Wednesday, April 15 for our Drop-In Drumming Circle.
The UTM Indigenous Centre invites you to join us in a time to gather and share our songs the following dates are when each circles are happening. There will be a fire during this time.
Light refreshments and snacks available.
When:
Wednesday, March 18
Wednesday, April 15
Where:
Principals Road at the Tipi and Lodge
Registration required limited capacity
Please note, the UTM Indigenous Centre will send a confirmation email to confirm your registration.
If you require accommodation(s) to attend this in-person event, please email [email protected]
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The UTM Indigenous Centre invites you to join us for tea and crafting.
This is a time we gather and use our hands to create something for ourselves.
There will be beading, sewing and other crafting supplies available to you.
Light refreshments and snacks available.
When: Wednesday, April 1
Where: Maanjiwe Nendamowinan, 6th floor, 6104
Registration required limited capacity
Please note, the UTM Indigenous Centre will send a confirmation email to confirm your registration.
If you require accommodation(s) to attend this in-person event, please email [email protected]
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More beautiful pics from a beautiful day: Land Medicine at Hart House Farm!
Photos 📷 by the incredibly talented @mihkokihew
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Hosted by:
Office of Indigenous Initiatives
Black@UTM
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Office
Join us for an appreciation lunch to honour our Black and Indigenous relatives. There will be medicine present for those who would like to be alone by the fire in the tipi. The lodge will have a fire and seating area open to everyone. Please come out and enjoy our ceremonial spaces with us to honour you.
🗓️ Friday, February 27, 2026
🕒 12:00pm-2:00pm
📍 Tipi and Lodge, Principals Road (towards Lislehurst)
Register: uoft.me/Feb27Lunch (Registration required due to limited capacity)
Opening Song: O'demin Song
Opening Remarks: Brianna Gbadevo
Firekeeper: Blakely Thompson
Closing Song: Warrior Song
Please note, the UTM Indigenous Centre will send a confirmation email to confirm your registration.
If you require accommodation(s) to attend this in-person event, please email [email protected]
Repost:
Wed Feb 4th 1:10pm-2:30pm
Performances by
Artist-in-Residence Olivia Shortt
with special guests Vee (Toronto)
and FAYTH (UTM)
Indigenous Creation Studio,
CC3000, CCT Building
All UTM Students, Faculty and Staff are invited and welcome to attend
Today, January 21st, is National Grandma Day. Today we honour our strong and powerful matriarchs who have come before us and are with us.
“Grandmothers are the real knowledge keepers. It has been the most meaningful and purposeful task I have undertaken in my life.” Elder Muriel Lee of Ermineskin Cree Nation, Treaty 6
Anishinaabemowin:
Nookomis - Grandmother
Haudenesaunee - Mohawk:
Aksótha - Grandmother
Cree:
Kokum - Grandmother
Join our community at Hart House Farm for a winter retreat centred around traditional foods with Chef Rick Powless (Oneida Nation of the Thames)
✔ Open to tri-campus First Nations, Métis and Inuit U of T community members (students, staff, faculty, librarians)
✔ Meals and transportation provided
✔ Learn about traditional foods and create meals together
LIMITED SPOTS AVAILABLE!
Register today at link in bio or uoft.me/LandMedicine
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UTM Office of Indigenous Initiatives invites you to join us in Anishinaabemowin class with Michael Thunderbird.
Michael Thunderbird is a second-language Anishinaabemowin speaker from Long Plain First Nation, Manitoba. He began teaching the language at the age of 18 and has since dedicated himself to its revitalization. Michael is the founder of Animikiibineshi, an initiative that provides Anishinaabemowin language resources, as well as in-person and online classes and workshops, helping learners reconnect with the Anishinaabe languages and cultures.
When: Friday, January 23rd 12:00 - 5:00 PM Where: The Lodge (located on Principal's Road)
Lunch and refreshments provided.
Registration required limited capacity
Please note, the UTM Indigenous Centre will send a confirmation email to confirm your registration.
If you require accommodation(s) to attend this in-person event, please email [email protected]
Firekeeper: Blakely Thompson
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