Her research focuses on Indigenous political and cultural representation across several sites. While her earlier work focused on confronting misrepresentations of Indigenous people, her more recent work examines Métis women's political representation and activism.
A transcript of this interview is available.
Resources
Jennifer's book recommendations:
- Chris Andersen, "Métis": Race, Recognition, and the Struggle for Indigenous Peoplehood
- Constance Backhouse, Colour-Coded: A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950
- John Borrows, Recovering Canada: The Resurgence of Indigenous Law
- James Daschuk, Clearing the Planes
- Susan Hill, The Clay we are Made of: Haudenosaunee Land Tenure on the Grand River
- Sarah-Jane Mathieu, North of the Color Line: Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955
- Renisa Mawani, Colonial Proximites: Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871-1921
- Robyn Maynard, Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
- Sherene Razack (Ed.), Race, Space, and the Law: Unmapping a White Settler Society
- Audra Simpson, Mohawk Interruptus
- Tanya Talaga, Seven Fallen Feathers
- Jean Teillet, The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Métis Nation
- Chelsea Vowel, Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada