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Climate Change and Emergency Management for Indigenous Communities
The impact of climate change has been felt across Canada as unprecedented heat domes, atmospheric rivers, and forest fires ravage the landscape. It’s...
Environment
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Heritage Conservation Act (HCA) Transformation Project
"cultural heritage resource" means an object, a site or the location of a traditional societal practice that is of historical, cultural or...
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What is the Seventh Generation Principle?
The Seventh Generation Principle is based on an ancient Haudenosaunee (Iroquois)* philosophy that the decisions we make today should result in a...
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Indigenous Fire Management and Traditional Knowledge
For the last few summers news reports were dominated by coverage of raging, massive, out-of-control wildfires. The fires devastated some communities,...
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Forest Fires and Indigenous Communities
The severity and impact of forest fires dominate the headlines every summer. In 2016, the Fort McMurray, Alberta, wildfire invoked the largest mass...
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6 Guidelines for Projects Involving Traditional Indigenous Knowledge
Traditional Indigenous knowledge (TK) and traditional resources have been managed by Indigenous communities since time immemorial. The arrival of...
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Rise of Indigenous Traditional Knowledge in Environmental Assessments
There are more and more articles in the news about the value of Indigenous traditional knowledge being taken into account in climate change studies,...
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What Does Indigenous Connectivity Mean?
The worldview of many Indigenous Peoples includes the principle of connectivity - that everything in the universe is connected. The spirit world is...
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Indigenous Relations at the Victoria International Airport
Airports - we all travel through them but how often do we actually ponder the Indigenous relations aspect of the operation? These transportation hubs...
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What Is the Relationship Between Indigenous Peoples and Animals
From time to time people ask me about the relationship between Indigenous peoples and animals. For some, the knowledge of the natural world - the...