Hosted by NCCID
The webinar presentation will examine two key aspects of community wellbeing - housing and community safety. In the first part of the presentation, the presenter Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark considers housing as a human right and treaty right. In doing so, she examines Indigenous legal orders in relation to housing as well as discusses Indigenous jurisdiction regarding housing, encampments and policy making. Dr. Stark calls for expanding Indigenous jurisdiction beyond a duty to consult to accommodate ontologies of care and obligations. In calling for a move towards ontologies of care, Dr. Stark turns her focus to Indigenous law and responses to concerns about community safety, with a focus on using Band Council Resolutions to carry out the banishment of members and non-members who are threatening community well-being. She asks what it means to take up ontologies of care and obligations in these complicated contexts.