We Are Born Into This Land - Talk by Aimée Craft
Thu. Feb. 6 12:30 PM
- Thu. Feb. 6 01:30 PM
Location: Convocation Hall, University of Winnipeg
CANADA RESEARCH CHAIR SPEAKER SERIES
We Are Born Into This Land: Birthing Babies and Raising Children as Expressions of Territorial Sovereignty and Women’s Jurisdiction, a presentation by Professor Aimée Craft, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Common Law, University of Ottawa
Aimée Craft is an Indigenous (Anishinaabe-Métis) lawyer from Treaty 1 territory in Manitoba. Her expertise is in Anishinaabe and Canadian Aboriginal law and she is a leading researcher on indigenous laws, treaties, and water. Craft co-leads a major research grant on Decolonizing Water Governance and works with many Indigenous nations and communities on Indigenous relationships with and responsibilities to nibi (water). Her award-winning 2013 book, Breathing Life Into the Stone Fort Treaty, focuses on understanding and interpreting treaties from an Anishinaabe inaakonigewin (legal) perspective.
This talk is hosted by Dr. Jaime Cidro, Canada Research Chair in Health and Culture and Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology.
The CRC speaker series features scholars whose work is related to the research and activities of Canada Research Chairs at The University of Winnipeg.