At this installment of Hot Dogs & Hot Takes on History, Ryan Crosschild invites us to explore the Blackfoot understandings of territory, boundaries, and belonging as questions about the province’s future intensify. Rather than beginning with Alberta or with the narratives about separation dominating public debate, this talk speaks from and for Blackfoot territory.
Dive into deeper conversations about Treaty 7, settler relationships to Blackfoot territory, and contemporary questions about overlapping Indigenous claims to place, to help understand what is at stake when talking about borders and separation.
What changes when Indigenous histories, relationships, and ways of knowing and being are centred in a conversation about our past, present, and future?
Come for the hot dogs, stay for a conversation that asks whether we’re even asking the right questions about where Alberta begins, where it ends, and who gets to decide.