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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:38.0pt">Public Memory and Indigenous Sovereignty<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:36.0pt">The Afterlives of the Royal Proclamation of 1763</span><span style="font-size:36.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:26.0pt;color:black">Prof. Pamela Klassen</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:26.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:24.0pt">Department of Religious Studies,</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:24.0pt;color:black">University of Toronto<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="paper"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt">In t</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size:14.0pt">he Royal Proclamation of 1763</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt">,</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size:14.0pt"> King George
III </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt">used </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size:14.0pt">his “spiritual jurisdiction” to guarantee that Indigenous people</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt">s</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size:14.0pt">
owned their lands that they had not ceded by treaty. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt">I</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size:14.0pt">t continues to be cited by Indigenous peoples as a “foundational document” ensuring their territorial
rights. This paper examines the significance of the Royal Proclamation as a material artifact and a “metaphysical” legal document, to use John Borrows</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt">’ term</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size:14.0pt">.
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt">Klassen examines </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size:14.0pt">how rituals of public memorialization have contributed to the significance of the Royal Proclamation as a document of both Indigenous and
Canadian sovereignty today.</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size:18.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Wednesday November 2, 2016, 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Arts Lecture Hall 105, University of Waterloo
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">Pamela Klassen</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt">is the author
of <i>Blessed Events: Religion and Home Birth in America </i>(2001) and <i>Spirits of Protestantism: Medicine, Healing, and Liberal Christianity</i> (2011), and
<i>The Story of Radio Mind: A Missionary’s Journey on Indian Land</i> (forthcoming). She is Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Anthropology of Modern Religion at the University of Tübingen in Germany and holds the Anneliese Maier Research Award from the
Humboldt Foundation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt">All are welcome. Refreshments will be served.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt">Sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies, University of Waterloo</span></b><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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