To All the Words You Never Learned | Walking with our stories

Speaker: Connor Lafortune

Dedicated to his grandparents, family, and Elders, Connor reimagines a world where the true stories of colonization can be told. He seeks to unpack language, teachings, and history while using poetry, oral storytelling, and traditional regalia. After six generations without fluent language speakers in his family, Connor seeks to understand the impacts of loss by speaking directly to his ancestors.

"Pour tout ce que tu n’oses pas dire | To All The Words You Never Learned" dares to ask "how have our words changed us?" He explores the ways in which colonization prevented the use of traditional language and dictated the use of the English language. He shares the traditional words they never learned and the ways they were forbidden to resist.