Patricia Monture: "Women and Indigenous Legal Traditions"

Thursday October 23, 12:30pm
Senate Room, 6th Floor Robertson Hall
Carleton University Patricia Monture: "Women and Indigenous Legal Traditions" *Patricia Monture:* *Professor, Department of Sociology, Chair of Graduate Studies, and Academic Director of the Aboriginal Justice and Criminology Program, University of Saskatchewan. (Mohawk, Six Nations Grand River) Dr. Patricia Monture was educated as a lawyer in Ontario. From 1989 to 1994, she taught in Canadian law schools and, in 1994, joined the Department of Native Studies at the University of Saskatchewan as Associate Professor and Special Advisor to the Dean of the College of Arts and Science on Indigenous Initiatives. She is the author of *Thunder in My Soul:  A Mohawk Woman Speaks*, and *Journeying Forward, Dreaming First Nations Independence*. Her central interest is the advancement of Aboriginal justice at the community level. She has also worked extensively in the area of federal corrections, the rights of Aboriginal women, constitutional issues and issues of theory and philosophy. She has advised a number of organizations including the Assembly of First Nations and the Native Women's Association of Canada. In 2008 she received an honourary Doctorate of Law from Athabasca University. *Abstract: TBA*