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Why does anyone need to “Honor the Treaties”? What does environmental protection have to do with it? Tradi-tional land use assessments are being used in Alberta to consult First Nations on the potential impacts that pro-posed industrial projects will have on their Treaty rights. The duty to consult lies with the Crown, while the Alberta government delegates this duty to third parties, or com-panies, and this in turn has created a consultation, or knowledge extraction, industry. This lecture will discuss the complexities of traditional land use assessments in the Treaty No. 8 region that overlaps with the Albertan oil sands deposits. Based on nine years of applied eth-nobotany and traditional land use research, Janelle Baker will use concepts from landscape ethnoecology, political ecology, and environmental anthropology to demonstrate that the current form of First Nations consul-tation is a small gesture that ultimately contributes to the ongoing colonization of Aboriginal people in Canada.
February 2
3:00 pm
B650
Everyone is welcome!
Contact:
Jenny Oseen | oseejs@uleth.ca | (403) 329-2551