About

Principal Investigator, Dr. Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox, was responsible for the overall intellectual and administrative direction of the project, including research and knowledge translation and mobilization initiatives to support a cross-cutting understanding of modern treaty implementation. Find out more about the Project Lead and Project Management Team here.

Irlbacher-Fox, Stephanie and John B. Zoe, Editors. February 2025. Kwedoo: Best Practices in Implementing Modern Treaties. Ottawa: Modern Treaties Implementation Research Project. DOWNLOAD HERE.

Results

The Project Lead has undertaken and directed research and knowledge translation and mobilization initiatives to support a cross-cutting understanding of modern treaty implementation. These include:

• Updates to Land Claims Agreement Coalition (LCAC) Leadership (annually).

  • Regular project updates are provided to the LCAC to share with their members as they require.

• Moderator, UNDRIP and Modern Treaties Panel, Biennial Land Claim Agreements Coalition Conference (2025).

• Book Launch Moderator: Kwedoo: Best Practices in Implementing Modern Treaties (Co-edited with John B. Zoe), at Biennial Land Claim Agreements Coalition Conference (February 2025).

• Co-Author, March 2025. “Broadening the Base: Land Claim Agreements Coalition Advocacy for a National Modern Treaty Implementation Policy”,  Ottawa: Modern Treaty Implementation Research Project.

• Panel Presentation, December 2023, NWT Governance and Modern Treaty Implementation, Canada School of Public Service

• Research Bytes: Interview series on modern treat implementation
• Edited Volume: Best Practices Implementing Modern Treaties in Canada National Research Project (Co-editor with John B. Zoe, 2025). This edited volume contains chapters highlighting best practices from the perspectives of the following Indigenous governments:
  • Gwich'in Tribal Council
  • Land Claims Agreement Coalition
  • Nisga'a Lisims Government
  • Tł ̨ıcho Government
  • Délįnę Got’įnę Government
• Gonèk’e: Our Land – Webinar Series on Modern Treaty Implementation (2020-present)

• Presentation to NWT Legislative Assembly Committee on Reconciliation and Indigenous Affairs titled “ UNDRIP and Modern Treaty Implementation” (Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox and John B. Zoe, 2021)

• Treaty Talk for the Gordon Foundation (2021)

• UNDRIP Information Videos (Co-produced with Hotii ts’eeda/Tlicho Government, 2021)

• Presentation at Modern Treaties and Reconciliation Conference titled "Modern Treaty implementation approaches" (2023)

• Land Claims Agreements Coalition National Conference: Making Treaties Work (2020)

• Modern Treaties Special Issue of Northern Public Affairs (Volume 6, Special Issue 2, December 2019)
• Feature article on the Modern Treaties Implementation Research Project in Northern Public Affairs Special Issue (2019)
• Indigenous Negotiators Workshop (2019)
• Presentation at Modern Treaties and Reconciliation Conference titled "Communicating and Understanding Treaties: Responsibilities of Generations to Come" (2017)
• Land Claims Agreements Coalition National Conference: Modern Treaties and Reconciliation (2017)

• When Rights Conflict: a Federal Approach to Supporting the Resolution of Overlapping Indigenous Land Claims (Honours Research Essay by Katie Caprini of Carleton University, supervised by Dr. Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox)