The “Interacting with the State” panels emphasize different legal regimes which currently define relationships between indigenous people’s and the state. Our final episode of the series features discussions on the duty to Consult, Metis land claims, and legal definitions of territory and sovereignty.

Featuring:

• Avigail Eisenberg (University of Victoria) “Consultation, Consent, and Resistance”
• Janique Dubois (University of Ottawa) “To What End? Negotiating Metis Land Rights in Manitoba”
• Mark Walters (Queen’s University) “Reconciling Legal Ideas about Territory and Sovereignty in Canada”

This episode features a rich discussion of the movements toward reconciliation which will be necessary in order to fruitfully navigate these ongoing tensions around land and land rights.

Featuring:

• Esme Murdock (San Diego State University) “Speaking Land, Speaking Ourselves”
• Dimitri Panagos (Memorial University of Newfoundland) “Reconciliation, Duties and Distributive Justice”
• Avery Kolers (University of Louisville) “Territorial Loss and Reconciliation” , presented by Burke Hendrix

This episode’s discussion focuses on largely Western ideas regarding the ontology of land and the relationships between people, the state, and the land, offering a critical perspective on the dominant and colonial approaches to land which have historically guided our understandings of land and land rights.

Featuring:

• Alejandra Mancilla (University of Oslo) “A Continent of and for Whiteness? “White” Colonialism and the 1959 Antarctic Treaty”
• Kerstin Reibold (UiT: Arctic University of Norway) “The Cultural and Historical Perspective of Welfare Egalitarianism”
• Margaret Moore (Queen’s University) “Indigenous Land Rights and State Territorial Rights”