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Indigenous Belonging & Rights in the Northeast (UVM, 2024)

April 25, 2024 - A conversation about contested claims of indigeneity and the stakes for Indigenous rights and sovereignty. Co-sponsored by UVM’s Canadian Studies Program, the Center for Research on Vermont, the Environmental Studies Program, as well as Middlebury College’s Department of Anthropology and Department of French and Francophone Studies. CHAPTERS: 0:00 Welcome Remarks by Beverly Little Thunder, Lakota, Vermont resident. 4:21 Introduction by Professor David Massell, Department of History, UVM. 11:58 Opening Remark by Professor Gordon Henry. Gordon Henry is Professor Emeritus of English as well as American Indian and Indigenous Studies at Michigan State University, as well as the convener of the international forum Unsettling Genealogies. He is an enrolled citizen of the White Earth Anishinaabe Nation of Minnesota. A poet and novelist, his 1995 book The Light People received the American Book Award. 20:58 Professor Pamela Palmater, Mi'kmaq lawyer, activist and politician. Pam Palmater’s work explores Indigenous sovereignty and rights, including the right to determine citizenship. A professor and the Chair in Indigenous Governance at Toronto Metropolitan University, she is also a citizen of the Eel River Bar First Nation (Ugpi’ganjig) in New Brunswick, a podcaster, and the author of three books including Beyond Blood: Rethinking Indigenous Identity (University of British Columbia Press 2009). 48:30 Professor Darryl Leroux, Associate Professor, University of Ottawa. Darryl Leroux is an Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa and the author of the 2019 book Distorted Descent: White Claims to Indigenous Identity (University of Manitoba Press). His research on the “Eastern Métis,” “Labrador Métis,” “Métis Nation of Ontario,” and the four state-recognized “Abenaki tribes” of Vermont has earned him a reputation as the leading scholar of self-indigenizing, or race-shifting, in the Northeast. 1:33:14 Statement of Support from Maulian Dana Bryant, Ambassador for the Penobscot Nation, read by Lois Dana with solidarity by Catherine Boivin, Atikamekw and Shawna, Mi’kmaq, Gesgapegiag First Nation. 1:37:57 Questions. 1:58:39 Thanks and comments from Rick O'Bomsawin, Chief, Abenaki First Nation of Odanak. 2:00:08 Honor Song, Odanak First Nation (Daniel Nolett, Jacques Watso, Martin Gill).