Senior Fellow Luncheon – Chief Stacey R. Laforme presents
Join us, October 25th from 11:45am to 2pm for the Senior Fellow Luncheon. Our lecturer. Giima Stacey R. Laforme, Chief of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, will provide his perspectives on reconciliation.
Registration deadline: Friday, Oct 22 at 12:00PM ET
To attend in person, registration is required. You can watch the lecture online from 1:15pm.
PLEASE NOTE: Due to COVID restrictions, we can only have 1-2 people at a table. If you register individually, we can only seat you with someone else with your written consent. If you and another Massey community member attending would like to sit together, please indicate when you register. If you are open to sitting with someone else, please let us know in the registration.
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Speaker
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Chief Stacey LaformeChief of the Mississaugas of the Credit First NationR. Stacey Laforme is the elected Chief of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation (MCFN). Born and raised on MCFN, Chief Laforme has served his community for over twenty years being first elected to council in 1999. Chief Laforme is committed to increasing involvement and communication between Elected Council and both on and off-reserve membership. He is very active throughout MCFN’s Treaty Lands and Territory, which encompasses 3.9 million acres of Southern Ontario, not only as a Chief, but as a notable storyteller, poet and published author.
Chief Laforme was appointed as honorary Senior Fellow at Massey College, joining the Duke of Edinburg and the Chancellor of Oxford as only the third person awarded the highest honor the college can bestow. In 2018, De dwa da dehs nye (Aboriginal Health Centre) awarded Chief R. Stacey Laforme the Walter Cooke Wisdom Keeper Award in recognition of one’s capacity to exemplify significant and continuous service to our community by demonstrating integrity, generosity of spirit, humility, courage, collaboration, “The Good Mind”, and traditional ways of knowing and being.
