Russell Diabo will deliver a public lecture entitled “Federal Comprehensive Claims Policy vs. Aboriginal Title” as part of Carleton University’s Aboriginal awareness initiatives.

Diabo is a member of the Mohawk Nation from Kahnawake, and a Policy Advisor to the Algonquin Nation Secretariat and Algonquin Wolf Lake First Nation; he is also the Editor and Publisher of an online newsletter on First Nations political and legal issues the First Nations Strategic Bulletin. Diabo has been an activist on First Nations issues since the age of 16 and is part of the Defenders of the Land network and works closely with Idle No More under a joint agreement between these two groups to work together on Indigenous Sovereignty.