Shiri Pasternak is a Toronto-based researcher, writer, and organizer. 

She is the Research Director at Yellowhead Institute and an Assistant Professor in Criminology at Ryerson University. Her book, Grounded Authority, is an in-depth critique of the federal land claims policy in Canada from the perspective of Algonquin law, and was published in 2017. Shiri writes about resource extraction, Crown-First Nations fiscal relations, and legal problems of colonialism, and can be found here on Twitter.

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