The workshops offer Indigenous organizations the opportunity to engage with the research from the Relational Governance Project in an interactive and engaging way.
Workshop 1: Relational Governance Foundations
This workshop covers the difference between relational and exclusive sovereignty, the connection between sovereignty and governance with a mix of presentations and interactive activities.
Workshop 2: Relational Governance Method
The Relational Governance Method workshop is meant to help communities to answer the question “How do we locate responsibility within a relational web based on Indigenous law?” for themselves.
Workshop 3: Rethinking Territorial Acknowledgements – Creating Meaningful Statements
Territorial acknowledgements originally gained traction as a public acknowledgment of the treaties and Indigenous peoples on the land where an event was taking place. For many people, these acknowledgements have become rote or perfunctory, leading some to label them as hollow or a box-ticking exercise. The workshop will lead participants through a series of exercises to develop their own personalized land acknowledgement based on their own experiences and understanding of colonization. This requires active participation and integrates facilitative methods with the theories and insights of Indigenous governance.
Workshop 4: Sweetgrass Simulation
This simulation is inspired by a real life story that occurred at Ermineskin Junior/Senior High School. The exercise asks participants to work through a dispute over the proper treatment of sweetgrass within a School by applying principles of Indigenous Law to work through the issue.
Contact
Email: mwildcat@ualberta.ca
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