In the first Trudeau Lecture to come to the University of Prince Edward Island, beloved Métis author and playwright Maria Campbell, 2012 visiting Trudeau Fellow, talks about the connection between her volunteering, her academic career, and her work in literature, theatre, and video to end violence against women in her lecture entitled: "Picking Up The Pieces - Seeking Out The Roots Of Violence Against Indigenous Women." Growing up in a Road Allowance Métis community in northern Saskatchewan, Dr. Campbell witnessed the power that women in her community exercised, as well as the violence they experienced. A lifelong student of Indigenous oral history, she will speak to what she has learned of traditional ways that fostered respect and authority for Aboriginal women, and on how colonization disrupted those ways and introduced gendered violence. Dr. Campbell will also describe how she is using her Trudeau Foundation fellowship to explore archival and secondary source material to support what she knows about the roots of violence against Aboriginal women. Her lecture will cover how she came to look for these “pieces of ourselves left behind” in documentary sources, and how observations about Aboriginal women from a Euro/Western lens can be re-visited to assist Aboriginal women’s activism today. Admission is free and all are welcome to attend. Light refreshments will be served.