Anishinaabe Intellectual Properties: Treaty Rights, Museums, Restoration and Resistance
Professor Nicholas Deleary
Jackman Law Building, Room P105
78 Queen's Park
Tuesday, February 27
12:30-2pm.
In the last few years there has been a lot of talk about cultural appropriation. We can define cultural appropriation as "a social phenomenon that takes place in multicultural countries, when members of a dominant culture adopt of elements of a minority group culture" but that still might leave you worried about what is and isn't cultural appropriation. How do we differentiate this social phenomenon from processes of cultural appreciation, exchange, adaptation, assimilation and acculturation?
This event is the first activity of a three-event workshop. We will start to outline important consequences of cultural appropriation, such as those related to cultural desecration or distortion and unauthorized commercial use of cultural elements of minority groups.
This lecture and Q & A will be delivered by Professor Nicholas Deleary. B.A. (Trent University), Native studies/anthropology, M.A. Carleton University, Native Studies, PhD. Studies University of Toronto
Professor Nicholas Deleary is an Anishinabe Potawatomie / Ojibway / Otomie, he is a long time member of the Three Fires Midewiwin Lodge, he is a recognized Midewiwin teacher, a Lodge Pipe Chief and also Chief Lodge Man. Nicholas is of the Loon clan.
As a recognized Professor of Indigenous Studies, Nicholas has been teaching at the post secondary level for over 38 years. Nicholas is active and a recognized leader for his community work, locally, nationally and internationally. Nicholas has worked extensively on Residential School historical research and victim’s mediation, in cultural repatriation, Assembly of First Nations - education; Union of Ontario Indians - re-organization, National Task Force on Museums & Aboriginal People in Canada; Museum repatriation; Sacred Site repatriation and former Trustee of the Royal Ontario Museum.
Current and recent projects include: Panamanian Indigenous National Congress; Phoenix Solutions Co., Plasma Gasification Co-generation Waste from energy systems; Union of Ontario Indians, International Museum Exhibition, National Indian Education Council; Ziibiwing Cultural Education Society, the Bidassigewak Native Way School (culture and language immersion) and Four Worlds Learning Development. Nicholas has recently semi-retired from full time post-secondary teaching and returns his energies to his grandchildren and the revival of Indigenous Arts and Metallurgy with teaching Anishinaabe Youth at risk Ojibwe, & Great lakes design and metal traditions with the Toronto District School Board. Nicholas has taken on his most current project, building from the ground up, a newly reformed treaty alliance of Southern Ontario.
This workshop series is presented by LLM Candidates Sandrine Ampleman-Tremblay and Esteban Vallejo Toledo and the Indigenous Initiatives Office at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law.
This is a public and free event. All are welcome.
See the series poster (PDF)
