Bird(ie)s of a Feather: Looking for Indigenous Laws and the Reconciliation Project
Join us for a talk by , an Indigenous legal scholar who teaches both at Ottawa U. and at Athbasca U., and the author of the debut novel , about the life of a native woman who moves from northern Alberta to Gibsons, B.C.
Professor Lindberg is Cree and M茅tis from northern Alberta. A graduate of the University of Saskatchewan College of Law, she is the first Aboriginal woman in Canada to complete her graduate law degree at Harvard University. She is thought to be the first Aboriginal woman to receive a doctorate in law from a Canadian University as well, having received the Governor General's Award in 2007 upon convocation for her dissertation Critical Indigenous Legal Theory.
An award winning scholar, Professor Lindberg writes and publishes in areas related to Indigenous law, Indigenous governance, Indigenous women and Indigenous education. Dr. Lindberg is an Associate Professor in the Centre for World Indigenous Knowledge and Research.
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