By Leverhulme Visiting Professor Damien Lee
American Museum & Gardens, Bath | 8 October 2024 | 2–3pm
This free talk at the American Museum & Gardens in Bath is a special opportunity to understand how Indigenous people in Canada have used adoption to not only renew their families, but to renew their nations as well.
Leading Anishinaabe scholar Dr Damien Lee is a member of the Fort William First Nation, a citizen of the Anishinaabe Nation and holds a Canada Research Chair in Biskaabiiyang and Indigenous Political Resurgence at Toronto Metropolitan University. He has joined the Treatied Spaces Research Group for 10 months from 1 August 2024 as a Leverhulme Visiting Professor.
About the talk
For nearly 175 years, the Canadian government has attempted to regulate who can belong with First Nations communities. This talk focuses specifically on Anishinaabe (or Ojibwe) families of the northern Great Lakes, who continue to use their own laws to determine who belongs, sometimes in ways that can challenge or uphold state control.
Watch the film of Dr Damien Lee’s talk below.
