Meet & Greet with Inky Marina + Friends

Join Colette Dion Montoya (Isleta Pueblo/ San Felipe Pueblo) and her American Girl dolls, Inky & Vita, along with some of their closest friends, for an evening of storytelling and sharing! Colette will also introduce the book A Council of Dolls by Mona Susan Power. Take home paper doll colouring sheets and moccasin patterns!

Colette Denali Dion Montoya is an enrolled member of Isleta Pueblo and a descendant of San Felipe Pueblo, living in Toronto. She is an Indigiqueer librarian, archivist, and oral historian working at the intersections of oral history, text, and memory.

Colette’s research engages depictions of Indigeneity in children’s media and their influences on young people’s understandings of settler colonialism, nationhood, and Indigeneities. Outside of academia, Colette explores the material cultures of Indigenous and queer childhoods through her American Girl doll photography.