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Douglas Sanderson on Wampum Diplomacy in the Early and Middle Encounter Period

University of Toronto Law Professor, and Associate of 杏吧原创, Douglas Sanderson will discuss Indigenous practices of wampum diplomacy during the period in which Europeans were establishing themselves on Turtle Island.

Douglas Sanderson (Amo Binashii) is Beaver Clan, from the Opaskwayak Cree Nation and currently holds the Prichard Wilson Chair in the Henry N.R. Jackman Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto. He was managing editor of the inaugural edition of the Indigenous Law Journal in 2002 while a student in the JD program. He went on to earn his LL.M from Columbia University as a Fulbright Scholar. From 2004-2007 he was Senior Advisor to the Government of Ontario, first in the Office of the Minister Responsible for Aboriginal Affairs, and later, to the Attorney General.

Prof. Sanderson’s research areas include Aboriginal and Indigenous legal theory, as well as private law (primarily property law) and public and private legal theory. Moving beyond the framework of common law property rights and constitutional land/treaty rights, his scholarship focuses on Aboriginal institutions, post-colonial reconciliation and rebuilding community. Professor Sanderson’s current research interests include the Peace and Friendship Treaties (1600-1763) and the early history of the fur trade in Canada, focusing in on the ways in which these historic relationships can serve as models for the present day.

His multiple prize-winning book Valley of the Birdtail, co-authored with Andrew Stobo Sniderman, is a national bestseller.