Thanks for that question. I have had students from the Tlicho First Nation and Decho First Nation in the city, amazing people to work with in my experience.
The starting place for us in working with indigenous law is that law from our society is central to who we are as peoples, as citizens. That is the starting place for talking about law in the world, and law between peoples and within peoples.
We understand it as being a way that we think about ourselves and our relationships, our families and our communities, and its tied to land. It's tied to language. It's tied to how we treat non-human life forms and the world beyond.
From that starting place, that fundamental starting place, which by the way is the starting place for Canadian law as well just expressed differently, then we look at the full scope of what indigenous law is, all that is required for societies to manage themselves to their fullest. We look at lands, families, economics. We look at the whole range of business that a society has to have in order to properly manage itself as a people.
There are questions of government and questions of human rights, how we deal with harms and injuries, all of those kinds of things. What we're doing with this program is having students start from their own intellectual traditions, from their own starting places, their integrity as indigenous peoples within their society. So absolutely, pride in who one is, it's how the program is built.