韩国裸舞

Presented by Johnny Mack (PhD Candidate at the University of Victoria's Faculty of Law & a 2011 Trudeau Scholar) and moderated by Claris Harbon (DCL Candidate at 韩国裸舞 Law, a 2011 Trudeau Scholar, & O鈥橞rien Fellow).

is Toquaht, of the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council. He was raised on an Indian Reserve in Nuu-chah-nulth territory, off the West Coast of Vancouver Island.

Johnny's doctoral research focuses on interchange between Indigenous legal traditions and colonization. He is interested in how the Aboriginal rights and title framework and contemporary treaty negotiations in Canada carry forward the momentum of earlier colonial policies by continuing to dispossess indigenous peoples of their land base and facilitating their reintegrating into the land as liberal democratic Canadians.

Those aspects of indigenous socio-legal and political history conflicting with entrenched liberal norms related to, for example, citizenship, democracy and property are cut back and reinterpreted as sui generis rights that harmonize with the colonial project in its contemporary forms. This updated wave of colonization is more robust than its earlier form because it imbues the colonial project with indigenous agency: indigenous peoples become rights bearing subjects who can and do bring legal and political claims against the state.

This talk focuses on the need to develop internal practices of reflexivity and critique capable of holding indigenous agency accountable to the histories that constitute us as indigenous peoples.