{"id":14261,"date":"2014-06-24T12:35:57","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T16:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/law\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=14261"},"modified":"2025-06-23T11:43:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:43:26","slug":"malette-sebastien","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/malette-sebastien\/","title":{"rendered":"Malette, Sebastien"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dr. Malette<\/strong> is a scholar of M\u00e9tis and French-Canadian heritage with ties and friendships within Aboriginal communities, including in Qu\u00e9bec, Ontario, Manitoba and the Maritime. He is an expert in Aboriginal Law with a focus on access to justice, Indigenous legal traditions, relational politics and worldviews. Dr. Malette was a collaborator with the Canada Research Chair on M\u00e9tis identity based in St-Boniface (Manitoba), and is currently a member of the Carleton University Institute on the Ethics of Research with Indigenous Peoples. Dr. Malette is interested in problematizing the relationships between Law and Indigeneity as both enabling and disrupting relations of domination affecting countries and communities with colonial histories. The work of Dr. Malette also centers around notion of governmentality and the analytic of power as developed by French thinker Michel Foucault. Part of his work also centers on ostracized M\u00e9tis or \u201cmixed-Heritage\u201d Indigenous communities, their histories and resilience\u2014with a special focus on newly crafted exclusionary narratives, policing of Indigenous identities and the problem of lateral violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Malette has&nbsp;co-written a book published in 2016 on the forgotten history of the M\u00e9tis peoples across the United States, with a particular focus on M\u00e9tis communities in the state of Oregon, entitled <em>Songs Upon the River. The Forgotten History of the Northwest Pacific Me\u0301tis<\/em> (Baraka, 2016, 442 pages). This book makes the groundbreaking argument that Me\u0301tis ethnogenesis has to be understood using a rhizomatous model whereby nodes of identity would emerge linked by networks covering thousands of miles and tied together by a shared culture (that is without a unique centre). It suggests the existence of a Me\u0301tis culture connected continentally through different regional expressions, made visible primarily through the historical presence of Indigenous and French me\u0301tissage in the context of the fur trade and ongoing colonial conflicts. Songs Upon the Rivers also addresses the danger of current neo-nationalist Me\u0301tis ideology conflating a single ethno-nationalist discourse on the historical origin of the \u201cMe\u0301tis nation,\u201d with the condition of the possibility of Me\u0301tis ethnogenesis elsewhere in Canada. <em>Songs Upon the Rivers <\/em>was the top-ranked book on Canada\u2019s History Top Ten Bestsellers list for over two months. 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