Michalyn Steele on Indigenous Resilience

In this episode, Michalyn Steele, Professor of Law at the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University, discusses her new article “Indigenous Resilience,” forthcoming in the Arizona Law Review. Prof. Steele begins the discussion with a discussion of resilience theory and an explanation of how resilience differs from robustness or endurance. She then take the listener through a history of indigenous resilience in the face of often destructive Federal Indian policy from the treaty era to the self-determination era. She closes by discussing principals of resilience central to the nations of Haudenosaunee Confederacy and what everyone can learn from those principles in addressing urgent problems such as climate change, crises in governance, and determining how to best care for the vulnerable.This episode was hosted by Maybell Romero, Assistant Professor of Law at Northern Illinois University College of Law. Romero is on Twitter at @maybellromero. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.