The project

This project weaves together conversations about aging and dying with mainly Indigenous but also non-indigenous elders. They share personal stories and occasional cultural teachings. You are invited to witness them with respect and to reflect about your own learning journey. What we are asking them is to consider this: In these unprecedented times, what are some of the most important lessons and experiences that you want to share with listeners and also pass on to the next generations? We sparked the conversations with questions like these :

• What does it mean to be an elder?

• What is one thing that you know now that you wish you had known when you were 20?

• Could you discuss the topics of aging, wellbeing and health?

• As a person comes closer to the end of their lives, what advice would you give them?

• What are some beliefs and experiences associated with dying and death? 

• Could you discuss the relationship between Elders and Youth?

Who we are

• Cash Ahenakew
  researcher and co-host,
  UBC Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples’ Wellbeing

• Dani Pigeau
  co-host

• Rene Suša
  contributor

  This project was made possible with financial support from the Government of Nova Scotia and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Connection Grant.
  
  Special thanks to the Musagetes Foundation for their active support
  and the Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre in Halifax.
  

  This project came through the work of the educational and research collective Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures.