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What if reconciliation with one another is impossible without first reconciling ourselves to the earth?<\/h2>\n

with Dr. John Borrows<\/p>\n

Webinar Date:<\/strong>\u00a0February 25, 2026 \/ 12-1pm PT<\/div>\n
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This opening conversation of the TRC#57 Speaker Series Season 6 launches our year-long exploration of Resurgence and Reconciliation: Indigenous\u2013Settler Relations and Earth Teachings. To begin this journey, we are honoured to welcome Dr. John Borrows, co-editor of the anthology and one of Canada\u2019s leading thinkers on Indigenous law and relational governance. Drawing from his chapter, \u201cEarth-Bound: Indigenous Resurgence and Environmental Reconciliation,\u201d Borrows offers a grounded and relational account of Indigenous law that emphasizes care for the earth, the importance of limits, and shared responsibility across generations. He invites audiences to reflect on Indigenous resurgence as an earth-bound practice\u2014one rooted in Indigenous laws, languages, and responsibilities to the living world.<\/p>\n

This session asks questions many Canadians are now facing with urgency:<\/p>\n

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  • What do treaties require of us in a time of ecological crisis?<\/li>\n
  • What can Indigenous legal traditions teach about living within the earth\u2019s inherent limits?<\/li>\n
  • How do responsibility, reciprocity, and love become legal obligations\u2014not just moral ideals?<\/li>\n
  • And what changes when land, water, plants, and animals are understood as living relations rather than resources?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Through story, legal insight, and teachings drawn from Anishinaabe law, Borrows reminds us that reconciliation is not abstract or symbolic. It is practiced daily through how we live, govern, and care for the world that sustains us.<\/p>\n

    This conversation sets the tone for the year ahead, inviting participants to slow down, listen carefully, and consider what it means to live well together\u2014in reciprocity with one another and the land\u2014now and for generations to come.<\/p>\n