Abstract
This panel, which took place at the Atlantic Canada Studies Conference in Orono, Maine, on 10 May 2024, began with introductions of the three panelists by Mark McLaughlin, who chaired the panel: Nicole O’Byrne (a law professor at the University of New Brunswick, an expert witness in an Indigenous legal case in Alberta, and the person who conceived of the panel), John Reid (a professor emeritus of history at Saint Mary’s University, a past co-editor of Acadiensis, and an expert witness in several Indigenous legal cases in the Maritimes), and Chief Patricia Bernard (who not only has helped lead an award-winning economic development initiative for the Madawaska First Nation but who also helped initiate the successful Madawaska land claim that was the focus on the panel).
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