Indigenous Conversations: Truth & Reconciliation with Gimaa (Chief) Stacey Laforme

Join us for our Indigenous Conversations with Gimaa (Chief) Stacey Laforme as he discusses Truth & Reconciliation.

R. Stacey Laforme is the elected Chief of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation (MCFN). Born and raised on MCFN, Chief Laforme has served his community for over twenty years being first elected to council in 1999. Chief Laforme is committed to increasing involvement and communication between Elected Council and both on and off-reserve membership. He is very active throughout MCFN’s traditional territory which encompasses 3.9 million acres of Southern Ontario, not only as a Chief, but as a notable storyteller and poet. Chief Laforme has recently been appointed as honorary senior fellow for Massey College, joining the duke of Edinburgh and the chancellor of oxford as only the third person awarded the highest honor the college can bestow.

Chief R. Stacey Laforme exemplifies significant and continuous service to our community by demonstrating integrity, generosity of spirit, humility, courage, collaboration, “The Good Mind”, and traditional ways of knowing and being.

We would like to acknowledge with thanks, the Ontario Trillium Foundation Resilient Communities Fund for their support for this important webinar series.

Thank you to the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation for their ongoing support and in sharing their knowledge and heritage with us.

A special thank you to Faith Rivers for her continued support, and to Gimaa (Chief) Stacey Laforme for joining us today and sharing his knowledge, truth, wisdom, and incredible poetry to help us to collectively create a pathway to truth and reconciliation.