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storyteller, and Executive Director, Rock House Project Malcolm B. Bowekaty (Zuni) Governor, Pueblo of Zuni (19982002), and, Board Chair, Rock House Project
First Nations Governments in Canada: Present and Future
Maggie Wente (Anishinaabe, Serpent River First Nation) LLB, MSW, Olthuis Kleer Townshend
Following a brief break after the incredible cultural presentation by Ancestral Guard (Yurok and Karuk Nation) were a series of afternoon Concurrent Sessions.
Zealand’s Māori Centre of Research Excellence and Professor of Law, University of Otago
Globalization and its Special and Significant Impacts on Indigenous Communities
Application to Indigenous
Robert Alan Hershey, Clinical Professor of Law, and, Director of Clinical Education, Indigenous Peoples Law & Policy Program, University of Arizona Rogers College of Law
Educating Ourselves and Fighting ‘International Law’
The Honorable Robert J. Miller (Eastern Shawnee Tribe) Court of Appeals, Grande Ronde Tribe, and, Professor of Law, Arizona State University Jacinta Ruru (Raukawa, Ngāti Ranginui) PhD, Co-Director of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga New
Te Tiriti O Waitangi: An Act of Cession or an Assertion of Tino Rangitratanga?
Doctrine of Discovery and its Peoples Around the World
Brenda Gunn (Metis) LLM, Associate Professor Robson Hall Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba
The Indian Re-organization Act (IRA) Failures: The A:shiwi Example
The Impacts of the Waitangi Tribunal Te Paparahi O Te Raki Stage One Report on Māori Sovereignty
Te Kani Williams (Tūhoe, Whakatōhea, Tainui, Ngāi Tai and Te Aupouri descent) BA/LLB, Director, Wackrow, Williams and Davies Alana Thomas (Ngāti Rēhia, Ngāti Kuri descent) LLB, Wackrow Williams and Davies Coral Linstead-Panoho (Ngā Hako, Ngāpuhi descent) LLB, Wackrow Williams and Davies
Edward Wemytewa (Zuni) Renowned visual artist and
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Señor Torres Torres spoke about the creation story of his people, the Archuaco from the Sierra Nevada, Colombia. He explained how this story informs the laws of his people and guides them in how they live in their world and with the western world. Señor Luis Macas from Saraguro, Ecuador, spoke of how his people struggle against the intrusion of international trade deals and multinational companies, despite the fact that Ecuador’s Constitution recogSeñor Torres Torres (left)
Participant Reflection 2016 World Indigenous Law Conference Report
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