Indigenous Knowledge Lecture Series
Hosted by the Office of Indigenous Engagement
This series is meant to highlight Indigenous leaders, scholars, artists and Knowledge Keepers, and spark key community conversations as we all work together to increase intercultural capacity and build good relations through awareness and knowledge.
Dr. Terry Poucette
Feb. 18, 2026
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. MT | Online
About the speaker
Dr. Terry Poucette is a member of the Goodstoney First Nation of the Stoney-Nakoda First Nations of Treaty Seven in Alberta. Terry was raised on reserve by strong Stoney women in her family who taught her Nakoda culture and the Îethka language, which she speaks fluently.
She holds a master’s degree and a doctorate degree in public administration from the University of Victoria, a bachelor’s degree in First Nations studies from Vancouver Island University and a social work diploma from Mount Royal University.
Dr. Christine Martineau
March 11, 2026
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. MT | Online
About the speaker
Christine Martineau is Cree (Frog Lake First Nation), Métis (Victoria Settlement), and Dënesųłinë́ (Cold Lake First Nation) and lives and works in both Treaty 6 and 7 territories in Alberta. She holds a PhD in educational leadership from the University of Alberta, with strong ties to UCalgary where she completed her BEd and MA. She has three decades of experience teaching and leading in K-12 and postsecondary education in Alberta and is now an educational developer for Indigenous Ways of Knowing at the Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning.
Dr. Thomas Hadlari
April 15, 2026
12:00 - 1:30 p.m. MT | Online
About the Speaker
Dr. Thomas Hadlari has mixed indigenous and settler heritage from arctic Canada. His birth parents are Gwich’in from the Mackenzie Delta area of northern NWT and of European descent from southern Canada. When he was very young his birth father died, and so he was raised by his adopted father who is Inuit from the central Arctic. He was raised in both Yellowknife, NWT, and Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. He attended one of the last residential schools, Akaitcho Hall, in the early 1990s for grades 10-12 when he was 14-17 years old. He did an undergraduate degree at the University of Saskatchewan and completed a Ph.D. in geology at Carleton University in 2005. He presently works as a research scientist at the Geological Survey of Canada, based in Calgary, and conducts fieldwork along the Arctic coast of Yukon-NWT and throughout the Arctic Islands in Nunavut.
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