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The talk is the culminating event in the Capps Center’s yearlong exploration of contemporary Indigenous ethics, Ethics in Place: A Symposium on Indigenous Peoples and the Future of Principled Democracy.
“We began with a question,” said Johnson. “How do we take steps toward a principled democracy wherein bedrock ideas of fairness and honor anchor our common humanity? One starting point, we suggested, is to address Native American land claims and place-based sensibilities in a sustained and forward-looking manner.”
The Ethics in Place symposium was designed to focus on what Johnson calls “knowledge production outside of university settings,” and has featured a slew of speakers who are not academics, including Walter Echo-Hawk, president of the Pawnee Nation; Caleen Sisk, chief of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe; Justice Gregory Bigler of the Muscogee Creek Nation Tribal Court; and Pua Case, a Native Hawaiian ceremonial leader.