Royal Society of Canada honours IGOV researcher

New Member of the College of New Scholars

Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark, Indigenous Governance

Stark’s innovative approaches to Indigenous law and governance have advanced the restoration of Indigenous political authority and jurisdiction. Centering Anishinaabe political thought, her work transforms our understandings of treaty and promotes a radical ethic of relationality for how we live together as treaty partners, as communities within which conflict and harms arise, and as humans in relation with the environment.

Indigenous law and governance are uniquely suited to take up the most vexing issues facing our world. They guide us away from rights-based models that are too often individualist, extractive and capitalist driven and toward deeply relational modes that center our responsibilities to one another and the lands and waters. —Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark, associate professor