GGIS Colloquium | Renewed Geographies of Belonging: Maamawijiwan and Indigenous Sovereignty in the Great Lakes
Nov 7, 2025 3:00 pm
2049 Natural History Building and via Zoom
- Sponsor
- Department of Geography & GIS
- Speaker
- Dr. Natasha Myhal | Assistant Professor, American Indian Studies Program
- Cost
- This talk is free and open to the public with a Zoom option.
- Registration
- Zoom RSVP
- Contact
- Geography & GIS
- geography@illinois.edu
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- Originating Calendar
- Geography & Geographic Information Science
This talk explores how the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians mobilize Anishinaabe relational methodologies to challenge colonial logics of resource governance. Through community-engaged research including the Nmé restoration program and Elder’s meal program, I examine how Maamawijiwan—an Anishinaabe understanding of watersheds—offers an alternative framework for jurisdiction that centers Indigenous sovereignty and everyday practices of belonging. Tracing histories from treaty-making through contemporary restoration work, this research demonstrates how relationality and cultural agency reshape resource governance in the Great Lakes region.