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Dr. Theresa Turmel is an Anishinaabe-kwe from Michpicoten First Nation. Theresa graduated from the Ph.D. Program, Indigenous Studies from Trent University in September 2013. Her dissertation titled, Gaagnig Pane Chiyaayong: Forever We Will Remain: Reflections and Memories: ‘Resiliency’ Concerning the Walpole Island Residential School Survivors Group, is the hallmark of significant learnings of a twenty plus year relationship she has fostered with the Children of Shingwauk Alumni Association (CSAA) and its offspring, the Walpole Island Residential School Survivor Group (WIRSSG).
Her dissertation is a participatory, community-based partnership with the WIRSSG whereby she discovers life force energy or mnidoo bemaasing bemaadiziwin and offers an Anishinaabe perspective of resiliency. In her personal life, Theresa is the proud mother of three adult children, John, Danielle and Chantal and extremely proud grandmother of Ariel, Alexandra, Dylahn and Emma-Leigh and has been married to husband, Mike for the past thirty years. She achieved her BA from Laurentian University in 1992 and her Master in Public Administration in 1998 from Lake Superior State University. Theresa possesses a love of learning and she is guided by the traditional Anishinaabe teachings and traditionalists and never wants to stop her life long learning process of culture and identity.
Fonds comprises research notes, interview transcripts, and research summaries of Theresa Turmel's doctoral work.
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