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Tropes, Treaties and Trials: Indigenous Peoples and Access to Justice in Canada
L. Jane McMillan
L. Jane McMillan is the former Canada Research Chair for Indigenous Peoples and Sustainable Communities (2006-2016), and current Chair and Associate Professor of the department of Anthropology at St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia. Jane holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of British Columbia. She is a cultural and legal anthropologist with a specialization in Indigenous justice and applied research methodologies. Jane has worked with Mi’kmaw communities throughout Atlantic Canada for over 20 years, conducting ethnographic research, policy analyses, advocating for Indigenous and treaty rights and the revitalization of Indigenous legal systems. She is a former eel fisher and one of the original defendants in the Supreme Court of Canada Marshall decision (1999), which resulted in renewed recognition of treaty and Aboriginal rights and transformed Indigenous access to commercial fisheries. Jane served as President of the Canadian Law and Society Association, and is currently the coordinator of the Law and Indigeneity Collaborative Research Network of the American Law and Society Association, and a member of the Mi’kmaq / Nova Scotia / Canada Tripartite Forum Justice Committee. Her most recent publication Truth and Conviction: Donald Marshall Jr. and the Mi’kmaw Quest for Justice (UBC Press, 2018) is available in November.
A light lunch will be served. Please register for this event.