The public and the media are invited to attend a free guest lecture by Indigenous lawyer Aimée Craft from Manitoba’s Public Interest Law Centre.
Craft will present on the recent Daniels v. Canada decision which confirms that Metis and non-status Indians are contained in the elusive legal category of “Indians”.
What does this mean practically, in law, and for Indigenous identity?
LECTURE: “Indian”: From legal terminology and constitutional responsibility to identity formation
WHEN: Wednesday, March 27, 2013
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
WHERE: Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall (inside Centennial Hall)
The University of Winnipeg
515 Portage Avenue
Craft is fluently bilingual and is available for one-on-one interviews in French or English following the lecture.
BACKGROUND: SHORT BIO
Aimée (pronounced: EM-AY) Craft – Bachelor of Arts (University of Manitoba), Bachelor of Laws (University of Ottawa), Master of Laws (University of Victoria).
Craft is Chair of the Aboriginal Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association and was appointed to the Speaker’s Bureau of the Treaty Relations Commission of Manitoba. In 2011 she was the recipient of the Indigenous Peoples and Governance Graduate Research Scholarship. She has also been an instructor and guest lecturer with The University of Winnipeg’s Urban and Inner-City Studies program.
Later this month, Craft is releasing her first book at McNally Robinson: Breathing Life Into the Stone Fort Treaty focusing on understanding and interpreting treaties from an Anishinabe inaakonigewin (legal) perspective.
MEDIA CONTACT
Diane Poulin, Communications Officer, The University of Winnipeg
P: 204.988.7135, E: d.poulin@uwinnipeg.ca
