Eels and Livelihood: Indigenous Rights, Resistance and Resource Management on Gunditjmara Country (Australia) and Mi’kmaq Country (Canada)
Seminar/Forum
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This seminar is the first in the Indigenous Settler Relations Collaboration's (ISRC) Critical Public Conversations series.
Light lunch provided.
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Damein Bell, CEO of the Gunditj Mirring Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation and Dr. Jane McMillan, a legal anthropologist from Saint Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia Canada, will share their experiences of reinvigorating the cultural, social and political significance of eels and challenges Indigenous resource management in Gunditjmara and Mi’kma’ki.
This seminar is the first in the Indigenous Settler Relations Collaboration's (ISRC) Critical Public Conversations series.
Light lunch provided.
Image credit: Peter, Lake Surprise (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Presenters
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Associate Professor Jane McMilan, Saint Francis Xavier UniversityAssociate Professor Jane McMilan
Saint Francis Xavier University
As a former Canada Research Chair (20062016) Dr. McMillan distinguishes herself in two distinct ways: (i) through her deep ethnographic and participatory engagement in Indigenous communities, which is informing public policy and transforming understanding of sustainability through cultural knowledge, and (ii) her national and international collaborative research networks that develop research partnerships, widely disseminate research outcomes, train highly qualified personnel, and build capacity in Indigenous communities and at the university. Dr. McMillan is a legal anthropologist who conducts and participates in innovative, primarily communityinitiated research, focused on the intersections of Indigenous knowledge with community strategies for implementing treaty and Aboriginal rights. Her analytical focus delineates the processes by which Indigenous peoples translate historical and legal identities into contemporary practices. It also identifies how these processes are then legitimated, or not, within emerging economic, political and cultural institutions, as Indigenous peoples negotiate the terms of intergovernmental responsibilities, accountability and sustainability in their efforts to rupture patterns of colonial dependency.
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Mr Damein Bell, CEOMr Damein Bell
CEO
Gunditj Mirring Traditional Owners Aboriginal CorporationDamein Bell is a Gundtijmara man and CEO of Gunditj Mirring Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation where, under instruction from the community, he implements Gunditj Mirring's strategic plan, and advocates for Gunditjmara in native title and cultural heritage. Damein has been a board member of the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission, and is currently a board member of Native Title Services Victoria. He has studied at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.