With case after case being won by Indigenous Nations in the courts, a new generation of scholars, legal experts and grassroots leaders are leading a quiet revolution in Canadian history.
Join a discussion of how Indigenous legal traditions are shaping our world with eminent Anishnaabe legal scholar John Borrows, Executive Director of the Circle on Philanthropy Kris Archie (Secwepemc te qelmucw and seme7), MLA Adam Olsen and RAVEN Executive Director Susan Smitten.
If law is something that is constituted through our relationships — with one another, with the living world and with our non-human relations — how can settlers and allies put reconciliation into action to realize rights that belong not only to the first peoples of this land but to the Earth itself?
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• a set of tools to empower people to engage in courageous conversations about relationships between Indigenous Peoples, settlers, and the natural world
• a justice-seeking educational opportunity aimed at empowering ordinary people to put reconciliation into action