The School of Nursing and the Aboriginal Students Health Science Office are hosting a celebration for Indigenous Nurses.

The event will honour Indigenous nurses past and present. Invited guests, students in the Masters of Public Health program, are Rachel Bomberry and Lacey Vanevery, who are graduates of the collaborative nursing program (the combined program through Mohawk College and Six Nations).

The ceremony will also honour nurse Charlotte Edith Anderson Monture, a member of the Six Nations of the Grand River territory, who in 1914 had to leave Canada and move to the United States for nursing school because of discrimination and restrictions on higher education for Indigenous people. Monture worked in the United States as a nurse and during World War I volunteered as a Nursing Sister with the U.S. Army Nursing Corps before returning to Six Nations. Her grandson, Dr. Rick Monture, Assistant Professor of English & Cultural Studies, will speak about his grandmother’s fascinating story.

Thursday, May 11, 12 – 2 p.m. | Indigenous Studies Program Office | L.R. Wilson Hall, Room 1010