− | '''Author and Senior Counsel at Pape, Salter Teillet LLP, specializing in Indigenous right law'''Ms. Teillet is an author, treaty negotiator, women’s rights advocate and an Indigenous rights litigator. She has appeared at the Supreme Court of Canada twelve times in Indigenous rights cases. Ms. Teillet’s popular history, ''The North-West is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel’s People, the Métis Nation'' was one of the ''Globe & Mail’s'' top 100 books of 2019 and won the Carol Shield’s and Manitoba Day awards. She is the author of ''Métis Law in Canada'' and has written for academic journals, the ''Globe & Mail'' and ''Macleans''. A frequent public speaker throughout Canada and internationally, Jean has been awarded the highest honour of her people, the Order of the Métis Nation. The Indigenous Bar Association has awarded Jean it’s highest honour, Indigenous Peoples Counsel. She has three honorary doctorates (University of Guelph, Windsor University and Law Society of Ontario). In recognition of decades of work with midwives, Jean has been made an honorary lifetime member of the Association of Ontario Midwives. She is a member of the Manitoba Metis Federation and is the great grandniece of Louis Riel. | + | '''Author and Senior Counsel at Pape, Salter Teillet LLP, specializing in Indigenous right law''' |
| + | Ms. Teillet is an author, treaty negotiator, women’s rights advocate and an Indigenous rights litigator. She has appeared at the Supreme Court of Canada twelve times in Indigenous rights cases. Ms. Teillet’s popular history, ''The North-West is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel’s People, the Métis Nation'' was one of the ''Globe & Mail’s'' top 100 books of 2019 and won the Carol Shield’s and Manitoba Day awards. She is the author of ''Métis Law in Canada'' and has written for academic journals, the ''Globe & Mail'' and ''Macleans''. A frequent public speaker throughout Canada and internationally, Jean has been awarded the highest honour of her people, the Order of the Métis Nation. The Indigenous Bar Association has awarded Jean it’s highest honour, Indigenous Peoples Counsel. She has three honorary doctorates (University of Guelph, Windsor University and Law Society of Ontario). In recognition of decades of work with midwives, Jean has been made an honorary lifetime member of the Association of Ontario Midwives. She is a member of the Manitoba Metis Federation and is the great grandniece of Louis Riel. |