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Biography

Darcy Lindberg is mixed-rooted nêhiyaw (Plains Cree) from Wetaskiwin, with his family relations coming from maskwâcîs in Alberta and the Battleford-area in Saskatchewan. He teaches primarily within the JD/JID Program. He previously taught at the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Law. He has taught or teaches courses on nêhiyaw constitutionalism and constitutional traditions, ecological governance and Indigenous laws, nêhiyaw treaties and treaty making, the foundations of Indigenous legal orders, and Canadian constitutional law. His research focuses very much on these same topics: it centers nêhiyaw law, ecological governance through Indigenous legal orders, gender and Indigenous ceremonies, comparative approaches in nêhiyaw and Canadian constitutionalism, and Indigenous treaty making generally.

Education

• BA (Humanities), University of Alberta;
• JD, Ó£»¨Ó°ÊÓ;
• LLM, Ó£»¨Ó°ÊÓ;
• PhD, Ó£»¨Ó°ÊÓ.

Selected publications

• “Nêhiyaw Pimatisiwin and Regenerative Constitutionalism in Lindsay Borrows & Jessica Eisen (guest editors) Review of Constitutional Studies (forthcoming in 2025)
• “UNDRIP and the Renewed Application of Indigenous Laws in the Common Law” (2022) 55:1 UBC LJ (Feb 2022)
• “Passports to an Imaginary Diaspora: Obligations and Limits of Adoption into Indigenous Societies” (2018) in 14:4 AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples 326.
• “Miyo nêhiyâwiwin (Beautiful Creeness): Ceremonial Aesthetics and nêhiyaw Legal Pedagogy” (2016) 16/17:1 Indigenous LJ 51

Other work

• “Ecological Governance through sacred storying” in Gina Starblanket, David Long (eds) Visions of the Heart: Issues Involving Indigenous Peoples in Canada (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2025) (6th Edition)
• “Nêhiyaw Hunting Pedagogies and Revitalizing Indigenous Laws” in Hōkūlani K. Aikau, Aimée Craft, and Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark, eds., Indigenous Resurgence in an Age of Reconciliation (University of Toronto Press: Toronto, 2023).
• “Mediated Relations: The Indian Act and the Politics of Ignorance” in Ryan Beaton, Robert Hamilton & Josh Nichols, eds., Wise-practices: Exploring Indigenous Economic Justice and Self -Determination (University of Toronto Press: Toronto, 2021)
• “(Re)bundling nêhiyaw âskiy: nêhiyaw constitutionalism through land stories” in Sujith Xavier, Beverley Jacobs, Valarie Waboose, Jeffery Hewitt, and Amar Bhatia, eds., Decolonizing Law: Indigenous, Third World and Settler Perspectives (Routledge: Abingdon, UK, 2021)
• “Transforming Buffalo: “Plains Cree Constitutionalism and Food Sovereignty” in Nathalie Chalifour, Heather McLeod-Kilmurray & Angela Lee, eds. Food Law and Policy in Canada (Carswell Publishing: Toronto, 2019).

Courses

• Law 100I: Transsystemic Constitutional Law
• Law 343: Ecological Governance and Indigenous Legal Orders (Contemporary Issues in Law) 
• Law 350I: Indigenous Field Study Level 1

Graduate supervision

Dr. Lindberg is interested in supervising graduate students working on Indigenous legal orders, Cree law and governance, Indigenous-Crown relations, constitutional law, as well as Indigenous laws and ecological governance.