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Sherry Pictou

Associate Professor of Law and Management; Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Governance (Tier 2)

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Email: sherry.pictou@dal.ca
Phone: (902) 494-4092
Mailing Address: 
Room 323, Weldon Law Building, 6061 University Avenue
PO Box 15000 Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2
 
Research Topics:
  • Miā€™kmaw & Indigenous Land and Water-Based Governance
  • Indigenous Food Systems
  • Indigenous Womenā€™s Political Life
  • Rights and Activism
  • Treaty Relations and Rights
  • Miā€™kmaw & Indigenous Land-Based Learning Practices
  • Decolonization & Resurgence
  • Multi-scalar Indigenous Peoplesā€™ Movements
  • Indigenous & Small-Scale Fisheries Movements

Education

  • BA (Saint Mary's)
  • BEd (Mount Allison)
  • MA (Dalhousie)
  • PhD (Dalhousie)

Bio

Dr. Sherry Pictou is a Miā€™kmaw woman from Lā€™sÉØtkuk (water cuts through high rocks) known as Bear River First Nation, Nova Scotia.Ā  She worked as an Assistant Professor in the Womenā€™s Studies Department at Mount Saint Vincent University with a focus on Indigenous Feminism (2017-2020). She is also a former Chief for her community and the former Co-Chair of the World Forum of Fisher Peoples. She is a member of the IPBES Task Force on Indigenous and Local Knowledge. Her research interests include decolonizing treaty relations, Social Justice for Indigenous Women, Indigenous womenā€™s role in food and lifeways, and Indigenous knowledge and food systems.

Current Research

Dr. Pictou currently holds a SSHRC Partnership Grant in Partnership with KAIROS Building Indigenous-Academic-Not-for-Profit Relations for Mobilizing Research Knowledge on the Gendered Impacts of Resource Extraction in Indigenous Communities in Canada.

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Selected publications & works

Book Chapters

Brady, J., Parker, B., Pictou, S., and Robin, T. (Forthcoming 2021).  Pestiewink/Wihokewin: Invitation to Indigenous and Intersectional Feminist Food Studies. Critical Perspectives in Food Studies (Third Edition). Oxford University Press.

Pictou, S. (Forthcoming 2020). ā€œĀæQuĆ© es la descolonizaciĆ³n? Concepciones Relacionales y Ancestrales Miā€™kmaw y Perspectivas AntropolĆ³gicas sobre las Relaciones de Tratados.ā€ In Rosalva AiĢda HernaĢndez Castillo, Suzie Hutchings & Brian Noble (Eds.), DiĆ”logos Transcontinentales. Alianzas Activistas con los Pueblos IndĆ­genas de CaƱada, Mexico y Australia. Oaxaca, Mexico: International Working Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA)/ Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESA)/ Pochote Press.

Pictou, S. (2019). ā€œWhat is Decolonization? Miā€™kmaw Ancestral Relational Understandings and Anthropological Perspectives on Treaty Relations.ā€ In Rosalva AiĢda HernaĢndez Castillo, Suzie Hutchings & Brian Noble (Eds.), Transcontinental Dialogues. Activist Research and Alliances from and with Indigenous Peoples of Canada, Mexico and Australia. Tucson:  University of Arizona Press (pp. 37-64).

Pictou, S. (2019). ā€œBeginnings and Renewal, Oppression and Fragmentation.ā€ [Opening Chapter] In KellyAnne Malinen (Ed), Dis/Consent: Perspectives on Sexual Violence and Consensuality, Halifax & Winnipeg, Fernwood Publishing (pp.18-30).

Pictou, S. (2019). ā€œSurvival and Resurgence.ā€ [Closing Chapter] In KellyAnne (Ed), Dis/Consent: Perspectives on Sexual Violence and Consensuality, Halifax & Winnipeg, Fernwood Publishing (pp. 155-167).

Stiegman, M. and S. Pictou (2016). (Updated).  ā€œResource Privatization, Treaty Rights Recognition and Community Resistance in Maritime Canada.ā€ In K. Burnett & G. Read (Eds.), Aboriginal History: A Reader (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press, (pp. 226ā€“242).

Articles

Pictou S. (2020). Decolonizing Decolonization: An Indigenous Feminist Perspective on the Recognition and Rights Framework. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 April 2020; 119 (2): 371ā€“391. doi:

Von der Porton, S., Cisneros, A., Ota, Y., and Pictou, S. (2019). The Role of Indigenous Resurgence in Marine Conservation, Coastal Management, 47:6, 527-547, 

Pictou, S. (2018). ā€œThe Origins and Politics, Campaigns and Demands by the International Fisher Peoplesā€™ Movement:  An Indigenous Perspective.ā€  Special Issue: ā€œConverging Social Justice Issues and Movementsā€, Guest editors: Tsegaye Moreda, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Alberto Alonso-Fradejas, Zoe W. Brent, Third World Quarterly 2018, 39(7): pp. 1411-1420. 

Pictou, S. (2015). ā€œSmall t-treaty Relationships without Borders.ā€ Anthropologica. [Journal of the Canadian Anthropological Society / La SociĆ©tĆ© Canadienne dā€™Anthropologie].  November 2015, 57(2): pp. 457-467.

Documentary Films

Stiegman, M. & Pictou, S. (2016). (Co-Director). 

Stiegman, M. & Pictou, S. (2007). In Defense of our Treaties (Co-Producer) for In the Same Boat (Film Documentary), Dir. Martha Stiegman. <>

Service & Activity

  • 2019 Research Advisory Committee for the Miā€™kmawey Debert Cultural Centre (MDCC), Debert, Nova Scotia. 
  • 2019 Enrollment Committee for Wula Na Kinu (This Is Who We Are)
  • 2019-2022. Indigenous Local Knowledge Task Force for the Intergovernmental Science-Policy
  • Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), UNESCO.
  • 2017-present Member, Native American Indigenous Studies
  • 2017-present Member, Canadian Association of Food Studies
  • 2016-present. SSHRC Indigenous Advisory Circle, Implementation TRC Call to action 65.
  • 2014-2016 Aboriginal Research Advisory Committee for SSHRC's Aboriginal Research Integrated Strategy.
  • 2014-2015-Avisory Committee for Bear River First Nation/Confederacy of Mainland Miā€™kmaq: ā€œMatrimonial Real Property Lawā€ for communities.
  • 2006-2014 Co-Chair, Word Forum of Fisher Peoples