The Work Remains: Law, Education, and Indigenous Sovereignty Ten Years After the TRC
Ten years have passed since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission issued its Calls to Action, yet the struggle for justice in education and law continues. This event invites critical reflection on what progress has been made and how educators, legal professionals, and Indigenous communities can continue advancing the TRC’s vision of equity and justice.
Join Jean Teillet, author, retired lawyer, and Métis rights advocate, as she examines the evolving legal and educational landscape of reconciliation in Canada. With a lifetime of advocacy before Canada’s highest courts, Teillet will speak to the power of education as a site of resistance, responsibility, and renewal for reconciliation.
Date: November 19, 2025
Time: 4:30 pm light snacks and refreshments | 5:00 - 6:30 pm presentation followed by discussion
Location: White Buffalo Lodge (EDT 314), Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary
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Jean Teillet
Jean Teillet is an author, lawyer (now retired), treaty negotiator, and a women’s rights and Indigenous rights advocate. She is a frequent public speaker primarily on Aboriginal rights, justice, identity and equality issues. She has appeared at the Supreme Court of Canada twelve times in Indigenous rights cases. Ms. Teillet’s popular history, The North-West is Our Mother was one of the Globe & Mail’s top 100 books of 2019 and won the Carol Shield’s and Manitoba Day awards. She is also the author of Métis Law in Canada and has written for academic journals, the Globe & Mail and Macleans. Jean was the first recipient of the Law Society of Upper Canada’s Lincoln Alexander Award and was awarded the title “Indigenous Peoples Counsel” by the Indigenous Bar Association. The Métis Nation gave her its highest honour, the Order of the Métis Nation. The Association of Ontario Midwives made Jean an honorary lifetime member and she has three honorary doctorates. Ms. Teillet is a member of the Manitoba Métis Federation and is the great grandniece of Louis Riel.