By Professor Joy Porter
Online | 3 December 2024 | 4–5pm
Any study of the intercultural relationships between the Indigenous peoples of North America and British settlers usually focuses on the differences that resulted in disputes and violence.
However, on closer examination, the interaction also involved the exchange of ideas and the forging of alliances, which required diplomacy and respect for differing traditions concerning the nature of treaties, rights to movement, use of resources, and the nature of borders.
In fact, early America was defined by Indigenous and non-Indigenous interaction and movement across shared and defended territories and settlements, connected via intercultural diplomacy.
This webinar will analyse one of the oldest diplomatic relationships in the world, the relationship between the British Crown and the Indigenous peoples of Canada and North America. This established a fundamental kinship relationship between the Haudenosaunee (also known as the Iroquois Confederacy) and the British Royal Family, one that continues to be ‘brightened’ or renewed in diplomatic terms today.
Joy Porter is University of Birmingham 125th Anniversary Chair, Professor of Indigenous and Environmental History and Principal Investigator of the Treatied Spaces Research Group, an interdisciplinary, internationally collaborative entity dedicated to addressing Indigenous environmental, political, and historical concerns.
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