Gabrielle Slowey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics at York University.  She has been working in/for Indigenous communities since 1997 when she was first hired by the Mikisew Cree First Nation as a self-government officer. Since that time she has travelled to (or worked in/with) the Miqmaq and Malisset communities of New Brunswick, the Mikisew Cree First Nation of Alberta, the James Bay Cree of northern Quebec, the Ngai Tahu and Tainui of New Zealand, the Vuntut Gwitchin of Old Crow Yukon, the Inuvialuit of Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories and the Nishnawbe Aski Nation, Ontario. Her research concentrates on the politics of resource extraction, environmental/ecological integrity, democracy, the duty to consult, land claims, treaties and self-government. Her approach is very much community-based and community-driven. She is the author of many chapters and articles including “The Shifting State:  Rolling Over Indigenous Rights in Ontario.” Indigenous Peoples,  Natural Resources and  Governance. Routledge (2022).