Robin R. R. Gray

Dr. Robin R. R. Gray is Ts’msyen from Lax Kw’alaams, B.C., and Mikisew Cree from Fort Chipewyan, A.B. She is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and a Special Advisor on Rematriation to the Vice President & Principal at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Dr. Gray is an anthropologist and Indigenous Studies scholar whose new research proposes rematriation as the antithesis to repatriation. Her first book manuscript, tentatively titled Rematriation: Paradigms for Indigenous Futurity (in progress) foregrounds Indigenous laws, ethics, and protocols and uses an Indigenous feminist lens to analyse the poetics and politics of Indigenous return and the implications for Indigenous nationhood. Focusing on the active qualities of rematriation – or what rematriation is, what it wants, what it takes, and what it does – Dr. Gray’s new research shows that the future of Indigenous nationhood depends on rematriation paradigms, and that rematriation is necessary for realising decolonial futures.