{"id":15840,"date":"2015-03-17T16:16:56","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T20:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/law\/?p=15840"},"modified":"2025-06-23T11:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:43:12","slug":"research-talk-metis-peoplehood-and-ontology-with-prof-malette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/2015\/research-talk-metis-peoplehood-and-ontology-with-prof-malette\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Talk: &#8220;M\u00e9tis Peoplehood and Ontology&#8221; with Prof. Malette"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>As part of the Department of English Language and Literature&#8217;s Research Talks,<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/law\/people\/malette-sebastien\/\" target=\"_blank\">Prof. Sebastien Malette<\/a><\/strong> will be giving a presentation, entitled,&nbsp;&#8220;<strong>M\u00e9tis Peoplehood and Ontology<\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> Friday, March 20, 2015<br>\n<strong>Time:<\/strong>&nbsp;3:00pm &#8211; 4:30pm (reception to follow)<br>\n<strong>Location:<\/strong> DT 1811<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em><strong>Everyone welcome!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>M\u00e9tis politics provides a fantastic window to better understand Indigenous political movements. In the case of the M\u00e9tis, it reveals at least two political ontologies. On the one hand, we find a political ontology influenced by binary classic nationhood criteria, requesting the \u201cbirth\u201d of a \u201cNew People\u201d grounded in what is conceived as an exclusionary delineated space: the \u201cMetis Historic Homeland.\u201d On the other hand, we see a more flexible and relational approach to M\u00e9tis identity based on this notion of being \u201cwalkers\u201d of both worlds. This Research Talk will discuss an alternative model to think of M\u00e9tis \u201cpeoplehood\u201d that operates on the basis of a more relational, pragmatic, and multi-centred approach to M\u00e9tis identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the Presenter:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sebastien Malette is of mixed-heritage M\u00e9tis\/Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois (Michigamea\/Kaskaskia Historic Community). Sebastien is interested in problematizing the relationships between Law and Indigeneity as both enabling and disrupting relations of domination affecting countries and communities with a colonial history. His research centers on Indigenous Law, M\u00e9tis\/Mixed-Heritage Studies, governmentality, environmentalism, and decolonization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the Department of English Language and Literature&#8217;s Research Talks, Prof. Sebastien Malette will be giving a presentation, entitled,&nbsp;&#8220;M\u00e9tis Peoplehood and Ontology&#8220;. Date: Friday, March 20, 2015 Time:&nbsp;3:00pm &#8211; 4:30pm (reception to follow) Location: DT 1811 Everyone welcome! M\u00e9tis politics provides a fantastic window to better understand Indigenous political movements. 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