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Black and Indigenous Speaker Series January 2026, Dr. Debbie Martin

In this installation of the MSVU Black and Indigenous Speaker Series we heard Dr. Debbie Martin's talk "The Trouble with Indigenous Identity Policies and How They are Harming Indigenous Peoples" Wading into the complicated politics of Indigenous identity has opened a whole host of issues for academic institutions. In this presentation, Dr. Martin will explore some of the ways in which Indigenous Peoples, who are meant to be protected from the harm caused by those committing “Indigenous identity fraud”, are being targeted and erased by the very policies meant to protect them. Debbie Martin is NunatuKavut Inuk, raised in Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, with many family connections to both Trinity Bay and St. Lewis, Labrador. Dr. Martin is a Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples’ Health and Well-Being and Full Professor at Dalhousie University. She is currently the Nominated Principal Investigator of the Wabanaki-Labrador Indigenous Health Research Network. MSVU is located in Mi’kma’ki, the unceded and ancestral territory of the Mi’kmaq People.