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Date: June 27 from 1:00-2:00 p.m. MST

Making Change, Building Alliances: How Shoal Lake 40 First Nation’s Freedom Road Campaign Succeeded

Description: This presentation examines how Shoal Lake 40 First Nation – an Anishinaabe community on the Manitoba-Ontario border – succeeded in its longstanding campaign for road access and safe drinking water. Based on interviews, sharing circles, and archival research, it identifies the important roles of Indigenous leadership, creative strategies and tactics, and relationship-building in generating meaningful change. In particular, it emphasizes how Shoal Lake 40 members persuasively framed their struggle in terms of human rights and reconciliation and deliberately cultivated alliances with outside groups and individuals who could use their resources and networks to advance the First Nation’s goals. While drawing broader lessons on how to facilitate change, the research is meant to honour the efforts of all the people who made Freedom Road happen.

Bio: Jeff Denis is a settler Canadian of mixed European ancestry. He is an Associate Professor of Sociology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Dish with One Spoon territory. Jeff’s research focuses on the social psychology of racism and colonialism and the strategies, policies, alliances, and practices that can foster more just and sustainable societies. Jeff’s PhD research encompassed 18 months of fieldwork, 160 interviews, and a photovoice project with Anishinaabe, Métis, and white residents of Northwestern Ontario (Treaty #3 territory). The insights gained from this research then inspired his book Canada at a Crossroads: Boundaries, Bridges, and Laissez-Faire Racism in Indigenous-Settler Relations. Another research project involved interviewing settler Canadians who have participated in Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Idle No More events to better understand what led them to engage in solidarity activities. Jeff has also collaborated with community-based research projects such as the Poverty Action Research Project to monitor changes in Indigenous community well-being and with a non-profit group called Reconciliation Kenora that involved sharing circles and interviews to better understand barriers to reconciliation. Currently, Jeff is a co-investigator in a project called “For the Long Haul” that examines the conditions that foster long-term Indigenous-settler alliances. In this, he is working with Shoal Lake 40 First Nation to document the success of its Freedom Road campaign.

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