In this episode we yarn with Dr Sheryl Lightfoot - an Anishinaabe woman, citizen of the Lake Superior Band of Ojibwe, enrolled at the Keweenaw Bay Community. 

Dr Lightfoot talks about potential for the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to inform a First Nations foreign policy. She also gives an insightful global perspective on the aftermath of Australia’s failed referendum on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.

Dr Lightfoot is Chair and North American member on the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP).

Further reading: 

Caring feminist states? Paternalistic feminist foreign policies and the silencing of Indigenous justice claims in Sweden and Canada

Publications by Rauna Kuokkanen

Credits:

Host: ⁠Julie Ballangarry⁠

Guest: ⁠Dr Sheryl Lightfoot

Executive Producer and Editor: ⁠Pariya Taherzadeh⁠⁠

Co-producers: ⁠Julie Ballangarry⁠, ⁠Alice Ridge⁠, Carla Kweifio-Okai and Annelise Lecordier

Special thanks to Joanna Pradela

Artwork: ⁠Humanize Media⁠

Created by the International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA) and the Australian Feminist Foreign Policy Coalition.