Feature Story: J School's Connie Walker returns to give 38th Minifie Lecture

Indigenous representation in Canadian media has taken much-needed steps forward in the past decade, and one of its trailblazers returned to campus to tell her story. Investigative journalist Connie Walker was welcomed back to the U of R as the keynote speaker at the 38th Annual James M. Minifie Lect...

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Main Author: External Relations, University of Regina
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:English
Published: External Relations, University of Regina 2019
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10294/14647
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Summary:Indigenous representation in Canadian media has taken much-needed steps forward in the past decade, and one of its trailblazers returned to campus to tell her story. Investigative journalist Connie Walker was welcomed back to the U of R as the keynote speaker at the 38th Annual James M. Minifie Lecture. Walker, a proud Cree from Okanese First Nation in Saskatchewan, attended First Nations University of Canada (then known as Saskatchewan Indian Federated College) from 1997-2000. Although she now lives in Toronto, Walker is always happy to return. Staff no