Join us in Vancouver for the inaugural First Nations Investment Forum (FNIF)—the first national conference led and organized by First Nations to accelerate Indigenous investment, ownership, and economic sovereignty. As […]
Mitigating the Impacts of Climate Change is a series separate workshops featuring speakers who share their insights on Indigenous environmental leadership, community action, and land-based learning.
Join us as Anishnabe Knowledge Keeper Shannon Chief/Waba Mako discusses various contributions to the decolonization and restoration of her people’s sovereignty, including the defense and protection of land, waters, and language and the community-driven Anishnabe Moose Studies project.
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Shannon Chief/Waba Mako is Wolf Clan from the Anishnabe-Algonquin Nation. She contributes at various levels to the decolonization and the restoration of her people’s sovereignty. The defense and protection of land, waters and language is a priority for the Anishnabeg. Waba is a Knowledge Keeper who prioritizes knowledge & language sharing to Anishnabe communities. Waba is the former AMC coordinator for the Anishnabe Moose Studies which has always been community-driven project from 2022 to 2025. Today, Waba is the Interium Managing Director for Tinakiwin, a newly non profit organization established to continue on the advocacy work within the Algonquin Territory.
Mitigating the Impacts of Climate Change is a series separate workshops featuring speakers who share their insights on Indigenous environmental leadership, community action, and land-based learning.
In the face of global climate change, Mohawk educator and pedagogical consultant Kanerahtiio Hemlock asks, “How do small communities respond and adapt?” Acknowledging that there is no one right answer, Kanerahtiio explains that for traditional Native people, the path is clear: “We have to return to our own ways.” In this workshop, Kanerahtiio speaks to what he has learned while developing a class on Indigenous self-sustainability, and how exploring the ways his people taught their children in the past—and what that teaching might look like today—has guided this educational work.
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Kanerahtiio Hemlock, a Mohawk from Kahnawake, has taught native history for the past thirteen years at the First Nations Regional Adult Education Center. During that time, he had developed a course on Indigenous self-sustainability that won the 2018 Ken Spencer national award for innovation in teaching. Since 2023 he has also worked part time at Dawson College as the Indigenous Pedagogical Consultant.
