Ed Talk: Intergenerational Healing Across Histories

Join for an evening of dialogue and reflection with Lori Clarke and Smokii Sumac in the upcoming Ed Talk: Intergenerational Healing Across Histories. Together, they will share stories of trauma, connection, and healing across generations—drawing on lived experience, professional practice, and Indigenous knowledges.

ʔasqanaki — to tell two versions of the same story — guides this conversation, which honours the complexity of our histories and the many paths to healing. Lori and Smokii will speak to the strength of community, and the enduring role of love and culture in personal and collective healing.

Smokii credits his healing to Indigenous knowledges and the constant enduring powers of Indigenous love.

The evening will conclude with a Q&A.

Doors open at 6:30 pm, and tea and coffee will be served.

Registration is FREE! 

Please Register on the Cranbrook History centre website.

Speaker Bios:

Lori Clarke (she/her) is a Canadian cis-gender woman, mother, and wife with ancestry rooted in Ukraine, Scotland, Norway & France. As a registered clinical counsellor working as the Mental Wellness Team Lead for Ktunaxa Kinbasket Child and Family Service Society Lori walks along side others while carrying both personal and professional experiences with intergenerational trauma and healing.

Smokii Sumac (he/they) is a Ktunaxa two spirit poet, artist, and serves as the Cultural Lead for t̓ikxawiȼikimik • Foundry East Kootenay. He is an adoptee and an intergenerational survivor of both the 60s Scoop and the Kootenay Indian Residential school. Smokii credits his healing to Indigenous knowledges and the constant enduring powers of Indigenous love.