Notice Board

The Centre for Oral History and Tradition (COHT) and The Department of History & Religion present

Reclaiming Our Stories: Blood Tribe Perspectives on Residential School History
by Appoyak'ii/ Dr. Tiffany Prete

Friday, April 11, 2025

3 p.m.
SA6012 
and Zoom:  https://uleth.zoom.us/j/96915072216

(with a special ceremony at the begining with Elder Francis First Charger and Dr. Leroy Little Bear)

Apooyak’ii/Dr. Tiffany Hind Bull-Prete is a member of the Kainai (Blood Tribe) of the Siksikasitapi (Blackfoot Confederacy) and a Canada Research Chair, Tier II, in Indigenous Resiliency. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Lethbridge, where her work advances the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action. Her research examines transportation inequities in rural and remote Indigenous communities, linking them to settler colonialism and systemic inequalities.

Dr. Hind Bull-Prete curated Stolen Kainai Children: Stories of Survival, shedding light on residential school experiences. She has received numerous honors, including the University of Alberta’s Alumni Horizon Award (2022), recognizing her impactful research. Her expertise includes Indigenous education policy, Blackfoot historical research, intergenerational trauma, and Indigenous research methodologies. In her spare time, she is a Native American beadwork enthusiast and has published a research paradigm guided by Indigenous worldviews.