Volume 48, Issue 3

In January of 2021, the American Association of Law Schools (“AALS”) theme was Freedom, Equality and the Common Good. The Indian Nations and Indigenous Peoples Section of the AALS embraced the theme and announced a call for personal reflections incorporating the experiences of Native Americans in law schools. The theme of striving for academic freedom…

I am a citizen of the Manitoba Métis Federation. My mother’s and father’s families are originally from the area surrounding the Red River in Manitoba. Sometime after the Red River Resistance in 1870, my family went west into Saskatchewan, where they settled along the north Saskatchewan River in the territory of the Nehiyaw Nation. Although…

As an Indigenous person, I know introductions are important. Introductions place you. They provide others with an understanding of where you come from and what values or perspectives you might have because of this placement. Introductions provide your legitimacy, your credibility, and your “authenticity” as an Indigenous person. The introduction of myself has changed throughout…