Over the last forty years, northern Indigenous people have negotiated comprehensive land claim and self-government agreements with the Crown. These constitutionally protected agreements have transformed northern land and resources management and control. They have created powerful new Indigenous organizations with the capital and human resources to build their societies. And the modern treaties have re-defined the constitutional relationship between Indigenous nations and peoples, and the Crown. What implications does this have for how northern Indigenous people understand their citizenship, and their relationship to the rest of Canada? What does it mean for how all parties to the modern treaties –Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians—understand their citizenship?

This conference, to be held at the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University in Ottawa, is sponsored by Gwich’in Tribal Council, Nunavut Sivuniksavut and the University's Faculty of Public Affairs. It will bring together Gwich’in and other northern experts, southern scholars, as well as students from northern and southern Canada to consider the implications of the last forty years of fundamental change, and to think about the future.

This event is part of FPA Research Month.