National Aboriginal Day Banff Centre Talks: Reconciliation and Entanglement with John Borrows
As part of our National Aboriginal Day celebrations, we are thrilled to present a talk on Reconciliation and Entanglement by John Borrows, followed by an interview of John Borrows by Nicole Robertson.
As Indigenous peoples work towards reconciliation they are both strengthened and challenged by their entanglements with others. Anishinaabe stories and teachings will be shared.
ABOUT JOHN BORROWS
John Borrows is a lawyer and author who currently holds the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Law and Nexen Chair in Indigenous Leadership and will be on campus as a Fleck Fellow.
Professor Borrows has served as a Visiting Professor and Acting Executive Director of the Indian Legal Program at Arizona State University College of Law in Phoenix, Arizona; Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of New South Wales, Australia; New Zealand Law Foundation Distinguished Visitor at Waikato University in New Zealand; Visiting Professor at J. Rueben Clark Law School at BYU; Vine Deloria Distinguished Visitor at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers School of Law; LG Pathy Professor in Canadian Studies at Princeton University; Visiting Professor of Practice at Simon Fraser University Beedie School of Business; Nexen Chair in Indigenous Leadership at the Banff Centre. He teaches in the area of Constitutional Law, Indigenous Law, and Environmental Law.
His publications include, Recovering Canada; The Resurgence of Indigenous Law (Donald Smiley Award for the best book in Canadian Political Science, 2002), Canada's Indigenous Constitution (Canadian Law and Society Best Book Award 2011), Drawing Out Law: A Spirit's Guide (2010), Freedom and Indigenous Constitutionalism (2015) all from the University of Toronto Press.
Professor Borrows is a recipient an Aboriginal Achievement Award in Law and Justice, a Fellow of the Trudeau Foundation, and a Fellow of the Academy of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada (RSC), Canada's highest academic honour, and a 2012 recipient of the Indigenous Peoples Counsel (I.P.C.) from the Indigenous Bar Association, for honour and integrity in service to Indigenous communities. John is Anishinaabe/Ojibway and a member of the Chippewa of the Nawash First Nation in Ontario, Canada.
ABOUT INTERVIEWER NICOLE ROBERTSON
Nicole Robertson has dedicated her life to creating awareness about Indigenous Peoples through the media. Her career has taken her all across Canada: directing, producing, and reporting on issues that affect Indigenous communities.
Her work experiences include working with the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN), the National Aboriginal Achievement Awards (Indspire), A-Channel, Global, CBC and CTV. In 2002, Nicole created and established “Muskwa Productions & Consulting”, which specializes in communication advisory services that include; media and public relations, media training, event & video production, and communications strategies. Ms. Robertson’s company was recognized through the Alberta Chamber of Commerce’s Business Awards in 2009 as the “Aboriginal Woman Entrepreneur Award of Distinction.” Theaward recognizes the outstanding achievement by an Aboriginal woman entrepreneur who exemplifies effective leadership, innovation, and a commitment to enhancing the well being of the larger Aboriginal community.