Jurisdiction Back: Restoring Indigenous Governance Through an Ethic of Care

Dr. Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark is an Associate Professor at the School of Indigenous Governance at the University of Victoria. She is Ojibwe from Turtle Mountain and has a PhD in American Studies from the University of Minnesota. Her research interests include Aboriginal and Treaty rights and Indigenous politics in the United States and Canada, criminalization of Indigenous sovereignty, conditions of consent, and gendered violence. She is the co-editor of Indigenous Resurgence in an Age of Reconciliation with Aimée Craft and Hokulani K. Aikau, as well as Centering Anishinaabeg Studies: Understanding the World Through Stories with Jill Doerfler and Niigaanwewidam Sinclair.  She is also the co-author of the third edition of American Indian Politics and the American Political System with Dr. David E. Wilkins. Dr. Stark’s research background includes collaborative work with Indigenous communities in the United States and Canada.

Dr. Susan Hill is an Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Indigenous Studies, at the University of Toronto, where she is also appointed to the Department of History. Her research interests include Haudenosaunee history, Indigenous research methodologies and ethics, and Indigenous territoriality, with themes that benefit Indigenous communities while expanding academic understandings of Indigenous thought and philosophy. She is particularly interested in Haudenosaunee knowledge and thought, seeking to make sense of contemporary lives through an examination of how people got to where they are now, both literally and figuratively. She is the author of The Clay We Are Made Of: Haudenosaunee land tenure on the Grand River, published by the University of Manitoba Press (2017).