TRC57 Speaker Series

an Indigenous learning series

L. Jane McMillan

Topic:Truth and Conviction: Donald Marshall Jr. and the Mi’kmaw Quest for Justice

with L. Jane McMillan
Webinar Date: May 11, 2022 / 3-4pm PT
Jane McMillan will share with us a passionate account of how one man’s fight against racism and injustice transformed the criminal justice system and galvanized the Mi’kmaw Nation’s struggle for self-determination, forever changing the landscape of Indigenous rights in Canada and around the world.
Truth and Conviction
L. Jane McMillan
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About L. Jane McMillan

L. Jane McMillan is the former Canada Research Chair for Indigenous Peoples and Sustainable Communities and chair of the Department of Anthropology at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. A former eel fisher and one of the original defendants in the Supreme Court of Canada’s Marshall decision (1999), she has worked with Mi’kmaw communities for over twenty years, conducting ethnographic research, developing policy, and advocating for Indigenous and treaty rights and for community-based justice.