Episode 11: Today’s Indigenous futures — International Relations edition

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Our guest today

Dr. Sheryl Lightfoot, UBC Professor, is Anishinaabe, a citizen of the Lake Superior Band of Ojibwe, enrolled at the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community in Baraga, Michigan. In 2018, Sheryl was appointed to the role of Senior Advisor to the President on Indigenous Affairs, a position within the First Nations House of Learning. She is an associate professor in First Nations and Indigenous Studies and the Department of Political Science.

Sheryl is Canada Research Chair in Global Indigenous Rights and Politics. She holds a Master’s Degree from the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, with specialties in Foreign Policy and International Affairs as well as Economic and Community Development. She also has fifteen years’ volunteer and contract experience with a number of American Indian tribes and community-based organizations in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, including nine years as Chair of the Board of the American Indian Policy Center, a research and advocacy group.

Her book, Global Indigenous Politics: A Subtle Revolution, was published in May 2016 by Routledge Press in their “Worlding Beyond the West” critical international relations book series.

Referenced Material

• Dr. Lightfoot’s book Global Indigenous Politics: A Subtle Revolution
• United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
• Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action
• Outcome Document of the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples
• C107 — Indigenous and Tribal Populations Convention, 1957 (№107)
• C169 — Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (№169)

Music featured in this episode:

• Intro “R U Well” and “Lay it on me” by Best Fern, “Plans fall through” by Alexia AvinaMusic
• Think by Lee Rosevere on FreeMusicArchive.org
• Various Freesound elements: Dr_skitz’s Yay; Shady Dave’s Mystical glades piano loop.mp3; Shady Dave’s feelings of twilight loop; Ispeakwaves’ Wonderful — Calm Beautiful — (thanks for making your sounds free for non-commercial projects like ours!)