SESSION 4: KEYNOTE with Dr. Marie Leda Charlie
DAY ONE: FRIDAY, JANUARY 27
11:3o-12:30 UTC -7 | 20:30-21:30 UTC +2
INTRODUCED BY AUBYn O’GRADY
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Creation, Rematriation, and Placental Politics in the Yukon
While land claim agreements in the Yukon extend Yukon First Nations as a host of rights and jurisdiction previously not recognized by the Indian Act, questions remain about the place of creation (land, water, animals and non-human worlds) and Indigenous women’s embodied governance practices. This presentation highlights Northern Tutchone art and afterbirth practices as a means to rematriate modern treaty and land politics in the Yukon, while raising questions about the dominance of paper-based, Euro-Canadian bureaucratic governance systems.
Lianne Marie Leda Charlie is Wolf Clan and Tagé Cho Hudän (Northern Tutchone speaking people of the Yukon). She was born in Whitehorse to her mother, Luanna Larusson, and late father, Peter Andrew Charlie. Her maternal grandparents are Donna Olsen (Danish ancestry) and Hjálmar Benedict Larusson (Icelandic ancestry), and her paternal grandparents are Leda Jimmy of Tánintsę Chú Dachäk and Big Salmon Charlie of Gyò Cho Chú. She has created community murals in Whitehorse, Łu Ghą, Somba K’e and Mayo; and co-created four pieces for To Talk With Others (Valerie Salez, 2018), including a life-size hot pink papîer maché bull moose made out of the Umbrella Final Agreement. Lianne has a PhD in Political Science from the University of Hawai`i at Mānoa. She is a faculty member with Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning.