Editorial Note

This is a new beginning for us. As the first issue of a new publication on Indigenous law at McGill, Rooted is a conscious attempt to create space for Indigenous legalities, knowledge, and perspectives. Our contributors - academics, activists, artists, and leaders - offer insight into Indigenous ways of being and knowing beyond the dominant …

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Nishke, mtig deh daa aan

By: Isaac Murdoch Isaac Murdoch, whose Ojibway name is Manzinapkinegego’anaabe / Bombgiizhik is from the fish clan and Serpent River First Nation. Isaac is well respected as an artist, storyteller and traditional knowledge holder. He has committed his life to the preservation of Anishinaabe cultural practices and has spent years learning directly from Elders. Published in "Rooted Constitutionalism" …

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Nenaboozhoo

By: Isaac Murdoch Isaac Murdoch, whose Ojibway name is Manzinapkinegego’anaabe / Bombgiizhik is from the fish clan and Serpent River First Nation. Isaac is well respected as an artist, storyteller and traditional knowledge holder. He has committed his life to the preservation of Anishinaabe cultural practices and has spent years learning directly from Elders. Published …

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Rooted in Mi’kma’ki: Living L’nu Constitutionalism

By: Jane McMillan Dr. Jane McMillan is a legal anthropologist and professor at St Francis University, who conducts and participates in innovative, primarily community-initiated research, focused on the intersections of Indigenous knowledge with community strategies for implementing treaty and Aboriginal rights.  PUBLISHED in "Rooted Constitutionalism" | (2021) 1:1 RootedDownload Full Issue Here. It is a …

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Mi’kmaw version of rooted constitutionalism

By James (Sákéj) Youngblood Henderson James (Sákéj) Youngblood Henderson is a Research Fellow at the Indigenous Law Centre of Canada and teaches Aboriginal law at the College of Law, University of Saskatchewan. He was born to the Bear Clan of the Chickasaw Nation and Cheyenne Tribe in Oklahoma in 1944 and is married to Marie Battiste, …

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Dancing the Nation

By Kerry Sloan Kerry Sloan is an Assistant Professor and former Junior Boulton Fellow at the McGill Faculty of Law.  A citizen and past board (council) member of the Metis Nation of Greater Victoria, she is also connected to Metis communities in the southern BC interior.  Published in "Rooted Constitutionalism" | (2021) 1:1 RootedDownload full issue (PDF) here. Introduction …

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Excerpts from Nêhiyaw Âskiy Wiyasiwêwina: Plains Cree EarthLaw and Constitutional/Ecological Reconciliation

By Darcy Lindberg Darcy Lindberg is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Alberta. He has published and has publications forthcoming regarding Indigenous law and legal theory, Plains Cree constitutionalism and food sovereignty, and Indigenous citizenship orders. Published in "Rooted Constitutionalism" | (2021) 1:1 RootedDownload full issue (PDF) here. In …

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A Preliminary Sketch of Anishinaabe (a Species of Rooted) Constitutionalism

By: Aaron Mills Aaron Mills (JD Toronto, LLM Yale, PhD UVic) joined McGill Law as an Assistant Professor in 2018 and is the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Constitutionalism and Philosophy. As a community-engaged scholar, Aaron works with indigenous individuals, communities, and organizations to revitalize indigenous law and constitutionalism, to renew treaty, and to re-centre …

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Non-human equality and nêhiyaw food sovereignty

By: Darcy Lindberg Darcy Lindberg is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Alberta. He has published and has publications forthcoming regarding Indigenous law and legal theory, Plains Cree constitutionalism and food sovereignty, and Indigenous citizenship orders It is impossible to view contemporary challenges to nêhiyaw (Plains Cree) food sovereignty …

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