• cultural and educational displays in the Riddell atrium, including a Red River cart, sash weaving, dress-up/ photo booth, scholarship information, and more
  
  
• a public lecture by Jason Madden, Metis claims and rights expert (12:30 p.m. in Eckhardt Gramatte Hall - 3rd floor Centennial Hall)
  
  
• an all-day drop-in reception in UWinnipeg’s Aboriginal Student Services Centre

SHORT BIO - JASON MADDEN

Jason Madden is a Métis born and raised in Northwestern Ontario. Mr. Madden has been at the forefront of the new prominence of Métis rights and claims in Aboriginal jurisprudence.

In December 2011, Mr. Madden appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada in the Manitoba Métis Federation land claim case on behalf of the intervener Métis Nation of Alberta. He is also set to argue R. v. Hireskorn - the first Métis harvesting rights case to reach a Court of Appeal since Powley – in February . He is also currently representing the MMF in the ongoing Clean Environment Commission hearings on the Bipole III Transmission Project.

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