Indigenous Speakers Series presents Chelsea Vowel


The Indigenous Speakers Series is honoured to present Chelsea Vowel, a public intellectual, writer, educator, and Associate Lecturer in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta.

Chelsea Vowel is Métis from manitow-sâkahikan (Lac Ste. Anne) Alberta, residing in amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton). Parent to six children, she has a BEd, LLB, and MA. She is an Associate Lecturer and Cree language instructor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta.

Chelsea’s work intersects language, gender, Métis self-determination, futurisms, and resurgence. Author of Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada, she and her co-host Molly Swain produce the Indigenous feminist sci-fi podcast Métis in Space, and co-founded the Métis in Space Land Trust. Her first collection of short fiction, Buffalo is the New Buffalo, was published in 2022 by Arsenal Pulp Press.

Please join us in Theatre of the Arts (ML) for Chelsea’s engaging presentation “âniskôhôcikan, Like a String of Beads: Indigenous Futurisms.” Indigenous futurisms, a term coined by Grace Dillon and indebted to Afrofuturism, seeks to describe a movement of art, literature, games, and other forms of media that express Indigenous perspectives on the future, present, and past. How can Indigenous futurisms help us think and act otherwise?

Please note: Registration is appreciated but not required. Everyone is welcome! Join in person or livestream via this MS Teams Link.  To register, visit the event page.

Portrait of Chelsea Vowel by Hawlii Pichette, Urban Iskwew.

One response to “Indigenous Speakers Series presents Chelsea Vowel

  1. Was there a recording made of this talk? I am sorry to have missed it and would love to listen in. 

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