Eva Jewell

@ebaans_ Dr. Eva Jewell (Ma’iingan dodem, she/her) is Anishinaabekwe from Deshkan Ziibiing (Chippewas of the Thames First Nation) in southwestern Ontario with Haudenosaunee lineage. Dr. Jewell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Toronto Metropolitan University and is the Director of Research at the Yellowhead Institute. She previously completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Indigenous Methodologies at Brock University’s Social Justice Research Institute where she worked with Niagara region’s urban Indigenous community on perspectives of gender, work and care.

A Decade of Disappointment: Reconciliation & the System of a Crown

Last week the Federal Government released the 2024-2025 budget, with new funding allocations for Indigenous communities. While these allocations are significant and there are even new policy approaches to be found in the budget, chronic shortfalls and the historically paternalistic Crown-Indigenous financial relationship remain.

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Calls To Action Accountability: A 2020 Status Update On Reconciliation Executive Summary

December 15, 2020 marks the five year anniversary of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. In this in-depth analysis, enhanced by the expert insight of Indigenous leaders from across the country, Eva Jewell and Ian Mosby find that in 2020, Canada has completed no additional Calls to Action.

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