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Over a six-week period in 2018, Lianne -- along with friends, family, and 30 Whitehorse-based community members -- made a life-size hot pink papier mâché bull moose out of the Umbrella Final Agreement, a framework that guides modern-treaty making in Yukon.
While the objective from the outset was simply to create the art piece, Lianne did not predict that making the moose would become a project in governance. What can artmaking reveal about creating and sustaining alternative governance models that are rooted in Indigenous values and desires?
Lianne is a faculty member in the Indigenous Governance degree program and PhD Candidate at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Her work explores arts-based pedagogy, building Indigenous-centered spaces, facilitating settler responsibility, and creating ancestral governance models. This presentation will place a chapter Lianne is developing for her dissertation into conversation with the community.