By Professor Joy Porter and Professor Charles Prior
IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London | 12 December 2024 | 5.30–7pm
2024 marks the 260th anniversary of a pivotal juncture in the first ‘special relationship’ between America and Britain, a massive and expensive diplomatic pageant known as the Treaty of Niagara, when the Indian ‘Magna Carta’ confirmed Native rights and sovereignty over vast lands and resources. This seminar uses this and other treaties as lenses to reveal cultures of diplomatic interaction between the Crown and indigenous peoples that are rooted in the 17th century but of increasing global significance 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.
Charles Prior is Professor in History at the University of Birmingham. His research focuses on treaties between Native nations and non-Native governments in North America as sites of negotiation over sovereignty, law, constitutionalism, resources, and wider questions of the status and rights of small nations.
How to book
Book now through the Institute of Historical Research website.
