The Indigenous Speakers Series is pleased and honoured to present Jean Teillet, lawyer, author, teacher and artist, as the first of our 2021-22 speakers.
Jean Teillet is Senior Counsel with Pape Salter Teillet LLP who has long been engaged in negotiations and litigation with provincial and federal governments concerning Métis and First Nation land rights, harvesting rights and self-government. Among her significant Indigenous rights cases, she served as lead counsel for the landmark case R. v. Powley in which the Supreme Court of Canada affirmed constitutional protection of Métis harvesting rights.
Jean is the great grandniece of Louis Riel and recently published The North-West is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel’s People, the Métis Nation, which was listed as one of the Globe & Mail’s top 100 books of 2019.
In her Indigenous Speakers Series appearance, Jean will share stories from the process of writing The North-West is Our Mother; and will discuss who the Métis people are, where they are, and what is happening in the community today and into the future.
The Indigenous Speakers Series is organized by a group of Indigenous and settler faculty, staff, and students from the Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre (WISC), the Dean of Arts Office, the departments of History and Communication Arts, the Office of Indigenous Relations, and the Office of Research.
Please mark your calendar and join the event via the Teams livestream link that will be provided on the event page within two weeks of the event date
(December 2). No sign-in or registration required!
This event will offer American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation. Instructions for accessing ASL interpretation alongside the event livestream, will be posted on this page as soon as possible.