5 p.m. Bar Opens (cards only)
6:30 p.m. Program with Sikowis Nobiss

Sikowis Nobiss, Founder and Executive Director of the Great Plains Action Society, will present ReMatriation: Our Past & Our Future—a powerful discussion on Indigenous-led environmental, social, and cultural revitalization efforts across our region. This presentation is offered in conjunction with the exhibition Cara and Diego Romero: Tales of Futures Past, currently on view.

About Sikowis Nobiss:
Sikowis Nobiss is Nêhiyaw/Saulteaux of the George Gordon First Nation in Saskatchewan, Canada and grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. She is the founder and Executive Director of Great Plains Action Society and is an organizer, speaker, writer and an artist. Sikowis has a Masters Degree in Religious Studies and Graduate Minor in Native Studies from the University of Iowa. She believes that land defense and social justice work are inextricably linked and change will only happen when we dismantle corrupt colonial-capitalist systems through ReMatriation and rebuild with an Indigenous-led regenerative economy. She fights for a better future for her two young children.

Thursdays at the Figge sponsored by Chris and Mary Rayburn