Reconciliation, Indigenization, and Good Relations

[David Seljak]

Please promote this lecture to your networks. You will find her an engaging speaker (you can check out her talks on youtube!).
The lecture hall is large (perhaps too large for the expected audience), so please do not be afraid to invite your classes.
Thank you.



A lecture by Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe), Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Victoria, BC
https://www.sju.ca/lectures-catholic-experience-heidi-kiiwetinepinesiik-stark-november-16-2018


Sacred Inheritance: Accounting for all Our Relations in Treaties

What are our relationships and responsibilities to one another? How do we reconcile our differences and find ways forward to live together sustainably? The Anishinaabeg have long considered these questions. This talk details how, in bringing the Crown into a treaty relationship, Anishinaabe leaders detailed their understanding of creation and relationship to the Creator. They used treaty forums to instruct newcomers how to live with creation and how to understand the legal web of relationships they would be entering into that carried duties and responsibilities to creation. As such, the United States and Canada are always animated and conditioned by the laws of creation and the laws of the Anishinaabeg outlined in the treaty relationships that enabled them to live here, accounting for all our relations.

Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe) is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Victoria. She is the Director of the Centre for Indigenous Research and Community-led Engagement (CIRCLE) and the Director of the Graduate Certificate in Indigenous Nationhood. She has a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Minnesota. Her research interests include Indigenous law and treaty practices, Aboriginal and Treaty rights and Indigenous politics in the United States and Canada. She is the co-editor of Centering Anishinaabeg Studies: Understanding the World through Stories with Jill Doerfler and Niigaanwewidam Sinclair and is the co-author of American Indian Politics and the American Political System (3rd and 4th edition) with Dr. David E. Wilkins. She has published articles in journals such as Theory and Event, American Indian Quarterly, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, and Michigan State University Law Review.

Friday, November 16, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Vanstone Lecture Hall, St. Jerome's University Academic Centre


Complimentary parking - accessible - refreshments served prior to the lecture.
Please register<https://sju.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=32b8faf3b62cb8f35a23e2996&id=65fdc77e55&e=23f56782f2> for this lecture in advance to assist us with our preparations. Tickets are not required at the door.

This evening’s lecture celebrates the re-launch of the journal, The Ecumenist, under its new name, Critical Theology: Engaging Church, Culture, and Society.


David Seljak
Professor and Chair
Department of Religious Studies
Faculty of Arts
University of Waterloo

200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, ON  N2L 3G1

226-747-5812 (work cell, preferred)
519-884-8111, ext. 28232 (office)

The University of Waterloo is on the traditional territory of ‎the Neutral, Anishnawbe and Haudenosaunee peoples. We are situated on the Haldimand Tract, the land promised to the Six Nations that includes six miles on each side of the Grand River.

St. Jerome’s is part of the University of Waterloo’s commitment to the United Nations Women<http://www.unwomen.org/en>’s HeForShe<http://www.heforshe.org/> campaign:, and I am SJU’s Faculty Advocate for the HeForShe Impact 10x10x10<http://www.heforshe.org/impact> initiative.



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