Sheilla Jones
INVESTIGATOR. KNOWLEDGE-SEEKER. AUTHOR.
Sheilla Jones is an award-winning Canadian journalist and best-selling author who holds an advanced degree in theoretical physics. The focus of her current doctoral research at the University of Manitoba is Settler-Indigenous relations and peacebuilding.
What's New: Settler-Indigenous Relations
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Op-ed: Precedent-setting Treaty 1 case wraps up. Winnipeg Free Press. March 4, 2026.
A precedent-setting trial that wrapped up in Winnipeg’s Court of King’s Bench at the end of February has called for a court to determine, for the first time in 150 years, whether the value of Treaty 1 annuities is subject to an increase after being frozen at $5 per person since 1875...read more.
Conference presentation: The original two solitudes and the rise of anti-Indigenous hate, by Sheilla Jones. Global Forum on Bigotry and Hate, Canadian Museum for Human Rights, September 12-13, 2025, Winnipeg.
Bob Joseph, 21 Things You Need to Know About Indigenous Self-Governance, Indigenous Relations Press. Winnipeg Free Press, Books. September 13, 2025. pp. 196. Reviewed by Sheilla Jones.
UN Submission
A Numbers Game: The value of Indigenous annuities in CANZUS states, by Sheilla Jones. Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, 60th Session Human Rights Council Report, March 2025. Modernized Annuity Working Group.