Banakonda Bell: Traditional Knowledge & Teachings

2023 Host Shoshona Kish has a beautiful conversation with her mother, Banakonda Bell about the knowledge she holds as an elder. Banakonda Kennedy-Kish (Bell), Bear Clan, is a Traditional Practitioner and Elder-in-Residence at Laurier University’s Lyle S. Hallman Masters of Social Work program, in the Indigenous Field of Studies. She co-authored Case Critical: Social Services and Social Justice in Canada (2017, Between the Lines Publishers) and a chapter of Social Work Ethics: Progressive, Practical and Relational Approaches (2017, Oxford University Press). Banakonda has served Indigenous communities for over forty years.