Indigenous Climate Change Futures: Envisioning Well-Being with the Earth

Principal Investigator: Deborah McGregor/Co-Investigators: Lisa Myers and Alan Corbiere Funding: SSHRC Insight Grant. Term: 2021-2025. The project aims to define what it means to "live well" from a self-determined Indigenous perspective. Building on previous SSHRC-funded research, the project team will focus specifically on the Anishinaabek concept of mino-mnaamodzawin (well-being with all life) as aframework for

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No More Arrests? What The Latest Ruling Means For Fairy Creek Protestors

The importance of Indigenous knowledge systems Working with First Nations is vital, and in B.C, is the law. The province is legally obligated to consult First Nations on land and resource decisions that may impact them, Deborah McGregor, an associate professor at York University and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Environmental Justice, tells Refinery29. This is critically important as

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Deborah McGregor

Professor Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Environmental Justice Credentials PhD Forestry, University of TorontoMES Environmental Studies, York UniversityBSc Psychology, University of Toronto Research Keywords Indigenous Environmental Justice; Indigenous Governance; Sustainability; Water Governance; Indigenous Intellectual Traditions. Contact Information 4700 Keele StreetToronto, ON M3J 1P3 416 736 2100 dmcgregor@osgoode.yorku.ca https://iejproject.info.yorku.ca/ Research Interests As Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Environmental Justice, cross-appointed

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Mino-Mnaamodzawin: Achieving Indigenous environmental justice

What does environmental justice mean to Indigenous Peoples? How can it be achieved? These are two foundational questions being addressed by the Indigenous Environmental Justice (IEJ) project, a research initiative since 2015 by Osgoode and EUC Professor Deborah McGregor funded by the Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program as well as by the Social Sciences &

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Indigenous Environmental Justice

Principal Investigator: Deborah McGregor. Co-Investigators: Dayna Scott and Martha Stiegman. Funding: Canada Research Chair. Term: 2020-2025. The Indigenous Environmental Justice (IEJ) research and outreach project aims to develop a distinctive EJ framework that is informed by Indigenous knowledge systems, laws, concepts of justice and the lived experiences of Indigenous peoples. It serves as a resource for

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FOUR INDIGENOUS SCHOLARS GAUGE PROGRESS IN RESPECTING CULTURE, SCHOLARSHIP

Indigenous research and scholarship is about infusing higher education institutions with eons of wisdom that was dismissed and discarded through colonization. Freelance writer Paul Fraumeni discusses the profusion of Indigenous wisdom at York University with four prominent thought leaders. February 10, 2020. On the seventh floor of York University’s Kaneff Tower people are taking their

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