Upholding Indigenous Economic Relationships

What is the relationship between economic progress in the land now called Canada and the exploitation of Indigenous peoples? And what gifts embedded within Indigenous world views speak to miyo- pimâtisiwin ᒥᔪ ᐱᒫᑎᓯᐃᐧᐣ (the good life) and specifically to good economic relations? Upholding Indigenous Economic Relationships draws on the knowledge systems of the nehiyawak ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐊᐧᐠ (Plains Cree people) to explain settler colonialism through the lens of economic exploitation.

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NFUniversity 2023/2024

Decolonizing the Climate, Biodiversity and Food Crises: Critical Indigenous Approaches

What do Indigenous perspectives tell us about interlocking Earth crises like climate change, biodiversity loss, and food injustice, and ways to respond to these?  How can work on climate, food and sustainability center Indigenous knowledges in ways that foreground Indigenous peoples' decolonial struggles for land defense and land rematriation, biocultural diversity restoration, and the restitution of land-based sovereignty--including food sovereignty?  

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NFUniversity 2023/2024

Black Farmer History

In the popular imagination, agriculture is often seen as a site of oppression and exploitation of Black people. However, Karina Vernon’s talk reveals agriculture as an important but under-celebrated site of resistance and freedom for Black people in Canada.

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NFUniversity 2023/2024

Colonial Roots of Modern Free Trade Agreements

Virtual Event

This talk explores the colonial origins of modern international trade. Since the 1990s, the World Trade Organization, bilateral investment treaties, and free trade agreements have governed the international trade and investment regime based on free market ideology, but geopolitics, power relations, and corporate interests have shaped trade rules for over 500 years before they reached their current form.

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