Indigenous Awareness Week: Reconciliation ceremony

Join us on the front Lawn of the Law Faculty for a ceremony led by elder Dominique Rankin. Learn about the role of Indigenous law in responses to the TRC, with reflections from Anishnabe legal scholar John Borrows and fellow University of Victoria professor Rebecca Johnson.

About the Speakers

Dominique Ranking (Kapiteotak) is an Algonquin hereditary chief and medicine man, former Grand Chief of the Algonquin Nation, co-author of the book “On nous appelait des sauvages” and one of the Honorary Presidents of UN accredited body Religions for Peace, among many other achievements. In 2013, he was Elder responsible for training the psychological and spiritual support team, for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Quebec.

John Borrows is Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Law at the University of Victoria Law School, Fellow of the Trudeau Foundation, a Fellow of the Academy of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada, and a 2012 recipient of the Indigenous Peoples Counsel (I.P.C.) from the Indigenous Bar Association, for honor and integrity in service to Indigenous communities. John is Anishinabe/Ojibway and a member of the Chippewa of the Nawash First Nation in Ontario, Canada.

Rebecca Johnson is Full Professor at University of Victoria Law School. A pioneer in Canadian law-and-film scholarship, her research interests are marked by interdisciplinary, and include judicial dissent, cinema as a site of inter-cultural legal encounter, the economic imaginary, Indigenous legal methodologies, and sexuality. She has also been working for several years on a number of initiatives with the Indigenous Legal Research Unit. She has also worked on the development of the TRC-inspired blog.

In Partnership with First People's House.

See the full roster of activities for the 6th Annual Indigenous Awareness Week.