[Indigsol] Indigenous Speaker Series: Oct 3 "Doctrine of Discovery"

[Eva Mackey]

*Think, Talk, Tell:*

Indigenous Speaker Series 2008-9

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Sponsored by the School of Canadian Studies and the Dean of the Faculty of
Arts and Social Sciences, Carleton University
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pm    Azrieli Building 302 Robert J. Miller: "The Doctrine of Discovery and
Indigenous People"


Robert J. Miller: Professor, Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon, USA
(Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma)

Robert J. Miller has taught and practiced Indian law since 1993, and has
been a part-time tribal judge since 1995. He has published extensively on
Indian law issues, including his book, *Native America, Discovered and
Conquered,* focusing on the Doctrine of Discovery.



*Abstract*

North America was colonized under an international legal principle known
today as the Doctrine of Discovery.  Europe used the Doctrine – which relied
upon religious and ethnocentric ideas of European and Christian superiority
-- to legitimate its sovereign and property claims over territories and
peoples.  The Doctrine was relied upon in the Royal Proclamation of 1763 and
the U.S. Supreme Court in 1823 in Johnson v. M'Intosh. This case is still
relied on by Canadian, New Zealand, and Australian courts. Although Canada
and the United States did not apply the Discovery Doctrine in exactly the
same manner or at the same time, the similarities in their use of the
doctrine are striking and revealing. Viewing Canadian and US politics in
light of the international law of Doctrine of Discovery expands knowledge of
North American Indigenous settler-relations in the past and present.

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*Thursday October 23,  12:30pm**        **Senate Room, 6th Floor Robertson
Hall***

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*Patricia Monture***

*"Women and Indigenous Legal Traditions"*

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*Patricia Monture:* *Professor, Department of Sociology, **Chair of Graduate
Studies, and Academic Director of the Aboriginal Justice and Criminology
Program, **University of Saskatchewan. (Mohawk, Six Nations Grand River)*

Dr. Patricia Monture was educated as a lawyer in Ontario. From 1989 to 1994,
she taught in Canadian law schools and, in 1994, joined the Department of
Native Studies at the University of Saskatchewan as Associate Professor and
Special Advisor to the Dean of the College of Arts and Science on Indigenous
Initiatives. She is the author of *Thunder in My Soul:  A Mohawk Woman
Speaks*, and *Journeying Forward, Dreaming First Nations Independence*. Her
central interest is the advancement of Aboriginal justice at the community
level. She has also worked extensively in the area of federal corrections,
the rights of Aboriginal women, constitutional issues and issues of theory
and philosophy. She has advised a number of organizations including the
Assembly of First Nations and the Native Women's Association of Canada. In
2008 she received an honourary Doctorate of Law from Athabasca University.

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*Abstract: TBA*



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*Friday November 7,  1:30pm         Kailash Mital Theatre** (beside Southam
Hall)*

*For map see www.carleton.ca/ims/alth15.html*

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*Dale Turner:*

*"The politics of Indigeneity in Canada, the U.S., New Zealand, and
Australia"*
Dale Turner: Associate Professor of Government and Native American
Studies, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire (Temagami First Nation)

Dale Turner teaches and does research in social and political philosophy,
Amerindian philosophy, and the philosophy of law. He has a Ph.D. in
philosophy from McGill University and his areas of research include
Indigenous politics and contemporary Indigenous intellectual culture. He is
the author of the recent book *This is Not a Peace Pipe: Towards a Critical
Indigenous Philosophy *.



*Abstract:*

The concepts of rights, sovereignty and nationhood in contemporary political
thought have proven to be deeply problematic and controversial when applied
to Indigenous peoples. In this paper, I explore how the discourses of
rights, sovereignty, and nationhood have affected Indigenous peoples. For
better or worse, an Indigenous rights discourse has become indisposable for
those who defend the integrity of Indigenous peoples' demands for distinct
political recognition. I will briefly examine the constitutional democracies
of Canada, the U.S., Australia, and New Zealand and show how the legal and
political relationships with their respective Indigenous peoples have
created political spaces from which they can exercise their right of
self-determination.**



For more information contact Eva Mackey eva_mackey at carleton.ca or Donna
Patrick donna_patrick at carleton.ca

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Next Term:  Speakers include Bonita Lawrence (York University, author
of *"Real"
Indians and Others:** **Mixed-Blood Urban Native People and Indigenous
Nationhood*) in conjunction with the Aditawazi Nisoditadiwin grad students'
conference (*http://aditawazi.googlepages.com*<http://aditawazi.googlepages.com/>
), Kim Anderson (Cree/Metis writer and educator), and others….


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Dr. Eva Mackey,
Associate Professor, School of Canadian Studies, Carleton University
Dunton Tower 1204, 1125 Colonel By Drive,
Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6
tel: (613)-520-2600 x 6697 Fax: (613)-520-3903
eva_Mackey at carleton.ca
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