Pamela Palmater

Pamela Palmater, Pam Palmater (* 1970 in Eel River, New Brunswick ) is a Mi'kmaq lawyer, professor and politician from the north of the Canadian province of New Brunswick. Palmater has long been engaged as a political commentator on Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, InFocus, CTV and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Life and work

Your family is from Eel River and is one of the Eel River Bar First Nation to. Palmater is a descendant of the last traditional chief of their First Nation, Louis Jerome, her great-grandfather. His daughter was the healer Margaret Jerome, who married William Palmater. At that time, children from marriages in which the woman and the man was Indian non-Indians, automatically no more Indians, so lost their " status ". These offspring are accordingly referred to as Non Status Indians. Her son, a veteran of World War II, was Pamela Palma Marketers father. Pamela grew up with three brothers and eight sisters, and is therefore also non status Indian. She herself has two grown sons, who also no claims on government assistance as a result of legislation that penalizes the female line. After all, 1985 saw a change in the law to ensure that their parents were given back to Indian status, which eluded her continue. This in turn has the consequence that, if they are to pursue the traditional fishing or hunting, punished. In addition to them, there is no state health or education obligation as it exists over status Indians.

1994 Pamela Palmater gained their first degree ( undergraduate degree) at Saint Thomas University in the field of Native Studies and History, in 1997 her Bachelor of Laws in 1999 followed by the master, 2009 Palmater in Aboriginal Law received his doctorate at Dalhousie University. She took part in the negotiations that led to the agreement of Kelowna 2005 as well as 2010., In the discussions about changes to the Indian Act, the Indian Act She is currently Associate Professor at the Centre for Indigenous Governance at Ryerson University in Toronto.

In 2012 she was placed as one of the eight candidates for the Presidency of the Assembly of First Nations and thus sought the rank of Chief of National. If elected she wanted from the AFN again make a lobby organization that defends itself against the continued colonization in defiance of treaties, not a substitute government for all First Nations. Each candidate needs to 15 chiefs, his, respectively. support their choice. In July 2012, it was subject to Shawn Atleo favored as the second strongest of eight candidates, which they accused of having made ​​the AFN an " Assembly of assimilation". Atleo received in the third ballot 341 or 67 % of the vote; a quorum of at least 60 % is a condition of your choice.

Within the AFN Palmater directs the Centre for Indigenous Governance. At the same time she is a professor at Ryerson University in the Department of Politics and Public Administration. She has also worked as a consultant for the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. She was also Director of Lands and Trusts Services in Amherst, then Director of Government Relations at the Nova Scotia Halifax. Finally, she focused on human rights violations in the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission. For a short time she taught at St. Mary 's University.

She is a member of the Law Society of New Brunswick, the Canadian Bar Association, the Ontario Bar Association and the Indigenous Bar Association.

Awards

  • 2012 YWCA Woman of Distinction Award in Social Justice.

Publications

  • In the Path of Our Ancestors: The Aboriginal Right to Cross the Canada - United States Border, Master of Laws, 1999, unpublished.
  • Stretched Beyond Human Limits: Death by Poverty in First Nations ( for publication in 2012).
  • Beyond Blood: Rethinking Aboriginal Identity and Belonging, PhD, 2009, Saskatoon: Purich Publishing, 2011.
  • Our Children, Our Future, Our Vision: First Nation jurisdiction over First Nation Chiefs of Ontario Education for the
  • In My Brother's Footsteps: R. v. Powley Is the Path to Recognized Aboriginal Identity for Non- Status Indians? . J. magnet, D. Dorey, eds, Aboriginal Rights Litigation ( Markham: LexisNexis, 2003) 149
  • Stretched Beyond Human Limits: Death by Poverty in First Nations (2012 ) 65/66 Canadian Review of Social Policy.
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