Sylvia Mcadam

A call to move reconciliation from words to action

Closeup of Every Child Matters flags planted along Turtle Island WalkSylvia McAdam says the need for meaningful resources and funding to ensure that commitments to reconciliation are translated into tangible work rather than remaining words. (PHOTO BY MICHAEL WILKINS/University of Windsor)

By John-Paul Bonadonna

Reconciliation requires more than words. It calls for sustained action — in classrooms, institutions, communities and conversations around the dinner table.

That will be a central message when Indigenous scholar Sylvia McAdam of the University of Windsor’s Faculty of Law delivers the keynote address during the University’s Orange Shirt Day observances Sept. 30.

Windsor Law to host national moot highlighting Indigenous laws and perspectives

A group of law faculty and staff stand beneath the Sky Woman art installationFaculty and staff from the University of Windsor Faculty of Law gather beneath the Sky Woman installation in the Ianni Law Building where they will host the Kawaskimhon Moot on March 13 and 14. (PETER MARVAL/University of Windsor)

By Sara Meikle

The sound of prayer will rise before the first argument is made.

When the Kawaskimhon Aboriginal Moot takes place at Windsor Law from March 13 to 14, the proceedings will begin with ceremony — a welcoming to the territory, a call to the ancestors and a powerful affirmation that Indigenous Peoples are still here and Indigenous laws continue to live.