Redeemer University will host a special Redeemer Reads on Indigenous Knowledge and Traditions on October 2, 2025 from 5 to 6 p.m.

Special guests: Daniel Coleman, Rick Hill and Adrian Jacobs.

Daniel Coleman is an English professor at McMaster University who is grateful to live in the traditional territories of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe in Hamilton, Ontario. He studies and writes about Canadian Literature, whiteness, the literatures of Indigeneity and diaspora, the cultural politics of reading, and wampum, the form of literacy-ceremony-communication-law that was invented by the people who inhabited the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence-Hudson River Watershed before Europeans arrived on Turtle Island. His books include Masculine Migrations (1998), The Scent of Eucalyptus (2003), White Civility (2006, winner of the Raymond Klibansky Prize), In Bed with the Word (2009) and Yardwork: A Biography of an Urban Place (2017, shortlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize).

Rick Hill is a Beaver Clan Tuscarora residing at the Six Nations of the Grand River community. A Native Studies graduate of SUNY Buffalo, he has taught in post-secondary colleges and universities in both the U.S. and Canada. As a museum curator and educator, he has worked for the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, the Institute of American Indian Arts of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Recently retired form Mohawk College, he has begun a new adventure in creating the Niagara Academy for Indigenous Relations in Niagara-on-the-Lake.

Adrian Jacobs is Ganosono, Turtle Clan, Cayuga Nation, Six Nations Haudenosaunee Confederacy, Grand River Country in Southern Ontario, Turtle Island. He is a single father of five and grandfather of four. An artist, writer, indigenous advocate, entrepreneur, and public speaker he founded an Indigenous church on his home reserve. For 47 years he trained Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in spiritual and social service in various venues throughout the U.S. and Canada. His personal and professional studies include Indigenous worldviews, cultures and health, through a culturally affirming approach. He serves NAIITS An Indigenous Learning Community as Elder Liaison for the NAIITS Elders Circle. Currently he is Senior Leader for Indigenous Justice and Reconciliation for the Christian Reformed Church in North America in Canada.

Redeemer Reads events celebrate the work of local authors. All are welcome to attend.

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