RAVEN Essays

John Borrows is a professor and the Loveland Chair in Indigenous Law in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto. Dawn Hoogeveen is a research associate in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University.Max Ritts is an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University.Susan Smitten is an award-winning filmmaker and writer; she is retired from her role as the executive director of RAVEN (Respecting Aboriginal Values and Environmental Needs).

“The RAVEN Essays are directed at anyone with an interest in Indigenous interdisciplinary research with a community-oriented perspective. The book is absolutely (without doubt) a collection that is much greater than the sum of its parts. As with the introductory chapters, the closing chapter illuminates the critical importance of the contributions, and the origins (the RAVEN essays) behind the project.”

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The RAVEN EssaysSusan Smitten1. Situating the Raven StoriesDawn Hoogeveen, Max Ritts, and Heather Dorries2. Making Meaning: Indigenous Legal Education and Student ActionJohn BorrowsPart One: Principles 3. (In)Voluntarily Enfranchised: Bill C-3 and the Need for Strengthening Kinship Laws in Treaty 4Danette Jubinville4. Sharing of the Dish: The Dish with One Spoon and Environmental Planning in TorontoDa Chen 5. "My Story"Wade Houle Part Two: Relations6. Lake One Trail: Exploring the Egheze Kue Aze (Egg Lake) Landscape in Wood Buffalo National Park of CanadaLaura Peterson 7. The Berry PickerAtlanta Grant  8. Swimming Upstream against (Neo)colonialism: On Salmon Aquaculture Supremacy and the Decline of Sockeye in the Stó:lōErica Hiroko Isomura Part Three: Struggles9. Thieves of the North-West Coast: Understanding Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Relations in Clayoquot Sound, 1791–1792André Bessette 10. The Fight for Water: Examining Environmental Racism and the Effects on First Nations Culture and Society in British ColumbiaKevin Ly 11. Indigenous Legal Systems and the Struggle for RecognitionTosin Fatoyinbo12. Contemporary Colonialism: The Dakota Access PipelineHelena Arbuckle Conclusion: A RAVEN RoundtableJohn Borrows, Glen Coulthard, Mike Fabris, Dawn Hoogeveen, Max Ritts, and Susan SmittenAfterword: Raven Goes to School – (Re)learning Transformation from Graduate StudentsSarah Hunt – Tłaliłila’ogwaContributorsIndex