Indigenous Land Rights and Reconciliation Podcast

CFRC Podcast Network

Questions of land rights are at the root of most current conflicts between indigenous peoples and the wider state. Competing conceptions of the land and authority over the land intersect with conflicts around resource extraction, the terms of consultation and consent, and the political status of indigenous peoples. Without resolving the conflicts around land in a fair and collaborative manner, real reconciliation will be difficult to achieve. This podcast presents a series of six live panel presentations delivered at the Indigenous Land Rights and Reconciliation workshop at Queen’s University in September of 2019. The series theorizes the justifications for land rights from indigenous perspectives and investigates how these understandings challenge and enrich theories in the Western tradition. The discussion also confronts the implications of these understandings for the political and legal practice. The Indigenous Land Rights and Reconciliation project sought to meet three key objectives: to provide an open platform for indigenous people to voice their views on land, self-governance, and relationships; to explore ways of indigenizing political theory and method; and to promote respectful and reciprocal collaboration between indigenous and non-indigenous scholars. We encourage you to visit our website at www.queensu.ca/csdd/landrights to follow the project and its future efforts. Thank-you to our Sponsors and Supporters Government of Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Forskningsradet: The Research Council of Norway Department of Political Studies, Queen’s University Centre for the Study of Democracy and Diversity, Queen’s University Globalizing Minority Rights, UiT: The Arctic University of Norway CFRC Kingston The Louis Riel Reel is performed and provided by Traditional Métis Fiddler, Patti Kusturok https://www.pattikusturok.com/

Episodes

Interacting with the State, Part II

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”

Feb 19, 2020

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Land Restitution as Reconciliation

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

Feb 12, 2020

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Non-Indigenous Understandings of Land

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”

Feb 5, 2020

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Interacting with the State, Part I

The “Interacting with the State” panels emphasize different legal regimes which currently define relationships between indigenous people’s and the state. Part 1 features presentations on Mining Development and Modern Treaty-making. Featuring: Julia Gilpin and Karine Vanthuyne (University of Ottawa) “Reconciling the Indigenous Right to Self-determination with Mining Development”Veldon Coburn (Carleton University) “Lessons from the Algonquin Modern Treaty”Timothy Goodwin (Victorian Bar) – “Reconciliation and Land Rights in Australia: A Legal Perspective”

Jan 29, 2020

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Changing the Paradigm

This episode features a set of three paper presentations. The panel examines different understandings of our relationships with the land and particularly highlights those traditional relationships which are challenging the western and colonial interpretations of relationships to the land. Featuring: Jeff Corntassel (University of Victoria) “How will the Land Recognize You? Regenerating Indigenous Relationships Amidst Reconciliation Discourses” Burke Hendrix (University of Oregon) “Land as a Matrix for Responsibilities of Reciprocity”Cindy Holder (University of Victoria) “Indigenous Peoples’ Human Right to Land”

Jan 22, 2020

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The Ontologies of Land

This episode features a roundtable of three indigenous speakers, presenting their own understandings of the concept of land and the inherent contradictions and controversies as they consider wider ontological approaches to the land. Featuring: Dale Turner (University of Toronto)Paula Sherman (Trent University)Robert Lovelace (Queen’s University)

Jan 15, 2020

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Podcast Introduction

Sekon, Aniin, Tanisi, and welcome to the Indigenous Land Rights and Reconciliation podcast, presenting six panel presentations hosted at Queen's University in September of 2019. This introduction offers a traditional greeting from Kanonhsyonne (Janice Hill), Director of Indigenous Initiatives at Queen’s University, acknowledging the land and territory upon which the following discussions were held and providing a general introduction to the podcast.  

Dec 10, 2019

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