Indigenous Economics Assembly

Principal Investigator: Peter Victor. Funding: SSHRC Connection Grant. Term: 2021-2022. The project supports the first collaborative Indigenous Economics Conference held in partnership by the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics (CANSEE) and Indigenous Climate Action (ICA). The Assembly that took place virtually from June 10-12, 2021 brought together scholars, students, business leaders, organizers, policy-makers and community

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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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Miijim: Food as relations

Miijim: Food as Relations was EUC’s inaugural seminar series in Fall and Winter 2020-2021 that involved conversations among distinguished Indigenous, Black and People of Colour food scholars, growers, artists, and advocates from all over Canada. The series of events attended by 150-250 participants, some with more than 500 views were presented by the Finding Flowers project co-led

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Tying Indigenous and non-Indigenous worldviews to enhance environmental decision making

What is humanity’s relationship to water and efforts on improvement for humans, animals, and the waters themselves? How does Anishinaabek law construct the role of women in decision making about water? How does Anishinaabek law understand the relationship between water and memory? What responsibilities do humans have under Naaknigewin (law/Anishinaabek legal traditions)? Can the broader

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Revitalizing traditional foods and sharing lifelong food skills

Why do we eat what we eat? What are the links between food, people, language and land? Furthermore, what are the links between mothering/homemaking, art, technology and food? This is the focus of study by EUC PhD student and SSHRC Doctoral Fellow Chandra Maracle on the psychology of eating and how to use food as

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Indigenous education is central to Canada’s COVID-19 recovery

Article by By Suzanne Katsi’tsiarihshion Brant MES’05  & Bryden Award Recipient Over the last number of years, I have been honoured to provide leadership for First Nations Technical Institute (FNTI) on Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory in eastern Ontario. Now celebrating our 35th year as a post-secondary institute, we have provided unique learning experiences for thousands of Indigenous

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Polishing the Covenant Chain and renewing treaty relationships

In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) called for the renewal of treaty relationships  and the development of curriculum on treaties. Both the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples and the Ontario-based Ipperwash Inquiry identified treaty education as key in creating  just and equitable relations.   Five years after, Professor Martha Stiegman decided to further take up this challenge, in collaboration with

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Mining push continues despite water crisis in Neskantaga First Nation and Ontario’s Ring of Fire

By Dayna Nadine Scott, Deborah Cowen, and David Peerla The infrastructure crises that have plagued Neskantaga First Nation for decades have reached a terrifying breaking point. On Oct. 21, the northern Anishinaabe community’s ailing water systems once again failed completely, and this time in the context of the global coronavirus pandemic. With no running water flowing

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Evacuated amid COVID-19, Canadian First Nation waits for clean water

TORONTO, Nov 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When an oily sheen was discovered on the surface of the local water reservoir in October, Canada’s Neskantaga First Nation was forced to close off the pipes and move. Isolated in remote northern Ontario, accessible only by plane or on winter roads, nearly all 300 residents evacuated to

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Inaugural Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change Seminar Series explores lack and Indigenous Foods in Relation

The inaugural Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change Seminar Series will continue on Oct. 20 Assistant Professor Lisa Myers‘ Finding Flowers project presents the inaugural Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (EUC) Seminar Series Seminar Series, “Miijim: Food as Relations.” Miijim is a fall and winter conversation series presenting renowned Indigenous, Black and People of Colour food

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