Event Description
In collaboration with the Indigenous Law Student’s Association, the CFLS will be hosting Dr. Tracey Lindberg who will speak on her new book, The Cree Word for Love.
In this discussion, Tracey Lindberg will examine the ideas of reciprocal and relational love, settler responsibility and the beauty of Indigenous sovereignty. Centring familial relationships as responsible engagement, she engages Indigenous legal and literary traditions and loving reciprocity in making the case for loving activism.
Lunch will be provided!
Speaker
Tracey Lindberg is the author of two bestselling works: Birdie (2015) and The Cree Word for Love: Sâkihitowin. Her work has been recognized, much lauded and nominated for a number of awards. A proud citizen of the As’in’î’wa’chî Ni’yaw (Kelly Lake Cree Nation), she is a little mother, an aunty, a partner, a daughter, a niece, a sister and a cousin and works hard at building meaningful relationships while maintaining her status as asocial.
Dr. Lindberg is a professor at a Canadian law faculty and teaches Indigenous laws and legal orders and trans systemic law. She does community work and publishes academic in the areas of Nehiyaw and Indigenous law, Indigenous legal education, Indigenous legal theory and Indigenous law and love.
She sings the blues and is always looking for a band with whom to create music and sound.
Tracey currently lives on W̱SÁNEĆ territory and is committed to fostering, creating and building respectful and reciprocal relationships with the W̱SÁNEĆ people.
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