  Canada is beginning to plan its next chapter of space exploration that
includes sending humans back to the Moon and onwards to Mars. This includes
understanding humanities place in space and who will benefit from our
exploration. As part of this plan the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) placed a call
for consultations. In response, we presented comments urging the CSA to be
inclusive of Indigenous peoples in the planning as well as to be inclusive of
Indigenous rights and worldview in the future of space exploration. In
particular, we explore the questions of how Outer Space Laws intersect with
treaties between Indigenous Nations and the Crown in what is today Canada, how
the current narratives of space exploration parallel the historic narratives of
colonization that negatively impact Indigenous peoples, and how the future of
commercial exploitation of outer space acts to further colonization.
