Research interests
- Indigenous law
- Treaty law and philosophy
- Water governance
- Indigenous governance
- Decolonization
- Environmental law
Aim茅e Craft is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, currently on leave to serve as Chair of the Manitoba Clean Environment Commission. She is a lawyer from Treaty One territory in Manitoba and is of mixed Indigenous (Anishinaabe-M茅tis) and settler ancestry.
She holds a University Research Chair titled Nibi miinawaa aki inaakonigewin: Indigenous governance in relationship with land and water. She is an internationally recognized academic leader in the areas of Indigenous law, treaties, and water governance. She prioritizes Indigenous-led and interdisciplinary research, including the use of visual arts and film.
Craft co-leads several major research grants, including the initiative, and works closely with Indigenous nations and communities to support Indigenous relationships with and responsibilities to nibi (water).
Her critically acclaimed children鈥檚 book, Treaty Words, introduces treaty philosophy and relationships in an accessible and engaging way. She also plays an active role in international collaborations focused on transformative memory in colonial contexts and the reclamation of Indigenous birthing practices as expressions of territorial sovereignty.