This panel explores relational themes from Raymond Aldred and Matthew Anderson’s book: Our Home and Treaty Land (2024). Aldred, a Cree theologian, and Anderson, a settler scholar, identify Treaty as solution to Canada’s crises, with their social, spiritual, and ecological dimensions. Both recognize Treaty as essentially a family-making ceremony, binding settlers together on a journey with Indigenous Peoples, Land, and Creator.
The co-authors will speak to their aspirations for non-Indigenous people to honestly face the injustices of the past, that live on in the present, and navigate a harmonious way forward that promotes the wellbeing of all and multigenerational flourishing. Panelists will speak to the relevance of Treaty—and associated concepts of covenant, friendship, and kinship—as they reflect on how this book speaks to challenges facing communities in their contexts and the fractured times in which we currently live. While this session focuses most explicitly on Canadian contexts, its content will be relevant to other colonized countries.