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October 29, 2024
Raising the health and clean energy bar on First Nations
Wáhiakatste Diome-Deer (left) with a Peguis First Nation community member where geothermal heat pump installations and retrofits are ongoing. Photo submitted Canada’s National Observer: Nora Murdock used to burn wood to heat her house on the Fisher River Cree Nation reserve in Manitoba, rather than relying on electric heat. She liked the heat that a...
September 4, 2024
Climate change, eroding shorelines and the race against time to save Indigenous history
Archaeologists, Indigenous communities forced into difficult choices about which historical sites to save CBC News: On the shores of Leamy Lake Park along the Ottawa River, with Parliament Hill on the horizon, there’s a flurry of activity. Spades are gently digging and scraping through the earth. Sand is being poured through sifters. Mud is being washed away — all...
May 28, 2024
Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation Improved Forest Management Project Launched
NationTalk: SASKATOON, SK – Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation (PBCN) of Saskatchewan is excited to announce the execution of a series of land-use carbon projects launching in 2024 named sakahk papakititamo (Forest Breathes). Located in the River Delta region of Central and Northern Saskatchewan, these carbon projects include Improved Forest Management (IFM) techniques that have been peer-reviewed and have been listed...
April 27, 2024
Making friends with fire
More First Nations in B.C. are rediscovering the cultural use of controlled burning to protect communities from wildfires A year of planning took place to prepare for the cultural burn on March 18 that treated 151 hectares of land in and around the First Nations community of Xwisten, located just north of Lillooet in B.C.’s...
April 18, 2024
For a just transition, Indigenous Peoples need more than money
#2417 of 2418 articles from the Special Report: Race Against Climate Change A man sits on a solar panel next to Indigenous teepees. Photo by Getty Images/Grist Listen to article This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Canada’s National Observer: When it comes to a green future, money isn’t everything. In...
April 2, 2024
3rd National Climate Gathering: Catalyzing First Nations Climate and Conservation Leadership for Transformative Change Call for Sessions
NationTalk: In less than 10 months, the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) will be hosting its 3rd National Climate Gathering, Catalyzing First Nations Climate and Conservation Leadership for Transformative Change. The event will take place at the Calgary TELUS Convention Centre, October 7-10, 2024, in Calgary, Alberta. The Venue is located on the Moh’kinsstis, the...
March 19, 2024
Indigenous nations and world views key to combating climate change: report
A worker clears forest in Skwlāx te Secwepemcúl̓ecw following the devastating Bush Creek fire. Photo by Jen Osborne/Canada’s National Observer Canada’s National Observer: Climate change is a consequence of colonialism and the separation of the natural world, and now, Indigenous Peoples and their world views hold unique strengths in responding to the climate crisis, a...
February 7, 2024
Yukoners head home after ‘transformational’ Indigenous exchange in New Zealand
Māori groups ‘were able to teach us so much,’ said one Yukoner after 3-week visit CBC Indigenous: A group of Indigenous Yukoners say they’ve found their voice, through time spent with a remote Māori community in Aotearoa New Zealand. About 25 Yukon youths and leaders are starting the return journey from a three-week exchange. The group...
January 26, 2024
Two First Nations Take A Significant Step Forward in Managing Their Own Emergencies
January 25, 2024 NationTalk: Missanabie Cree First Nation ISN Maskwa (“MCISNM”) and Kashechewan First Nation (“KFN”) are pleased to announce they have agreed to work in collaboration and utilize each other’s services exclusively during emergencies facing Northern Ontario First Nations. This is a groundbreaking first step in an Indigenous-led approach to First Nations supporting First...
January 8, 2024
Calgary researchers using high-tech drones to map Alberta First Nation
Maps will help Frog Lake First Nation monitor environment and manage wildfire risk, says team NationTalk: CBC News – Researchers and students at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology are using sophisticated drones to digitally map Frog Lake First Nation. The nation, about 260 kilometres northeast of Edmonton, has relied on paper and low-resolution digital...
December 4, 2023
First Nations Knowledge Keepers across BC call for urgent climate action to restore balance and reciprocal relationships with Mother Earth ahead of COP28
NationTalk: (Lheidli T’enneh Territory, Prince George BC) As leaders, delegates, and Indigenous peoples from around the world gather for the Conference of the Parties (COP 28) in Dubai, First Nations Knowledge Keepers from across BC are sending a strong message: The climate crisis is a symptom of a broader problem rooted in the disconnection of...
November 30, 2023
Indigenous leadership must play a key role in Canada’s climate goals
A new report by Deloitte Canada outlines Indigenous Leaders’ calls to action to corporate Canada, governments and non-government organizations committed to climate action and reconciliation NationTalk: Toronto – There is no net-zero without nature. And there is no nature without reconciliation with Indigenous peoples. This, from a new report by Deloitte Canada that comes on...
November 3, 2023
Cree Nation Government reacts to Hydro-Québec’s Action Plan 2035 – Towards a Decarbonized and Prosperous Québec
NationTalk: NEMASKA, EEYOU ISTCHEE – In line with the collective worldwide energy transition initiatives necessary to achieve decarbonization targets in the face of increasing climate change effects, Hydro-Québec is presenting its Action Plan 2035 – Towards a Decarbonized and Prosperous Québec. A main highlight of Hydro-Québec’s Action Plan is to facilitate the financial and economic...
October 31, 2023
A coastal First Nation’s Guardians are ‘testing the water’ to prepare for climate change
We Wai Kai Guardians are partnering with Quadra Island volunteer groups to do a critical survey of wetlands to protect water as droughts increase with climate change, says Guardians manager Shane Pollard. Photo Rochelle Baker / Canada’s National Observer Listen to article Canada’s National Observer: A coastal First Nation’s Guardian team is gearing up to test...
August 30, 2023
A snapping success: Akwesasne celebrates its first incubated turtle hatchlings
11 baby turtles were released back into the territory during community event CBC News: Concerned about the decline in the snapping turtle population, staff at the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne have been taking “spe-shell” care of turtles and their eggs. “There’s certain places that have turtles that people see most years, and people notice when turtles...
August 22, 2023
In the midst of a destructive wildfire season, Sinixt experts point to the benefits of cultural burns
Knowledge-keepers say it’s time to end the colonial legacy of fire suppression: ‘Our wisdom and how we took care of the land has been disregarded’ A wildfire sweeps through a mountainside in the Kootenay River watershed in August 2023. Photo by Mike Graeme. APTN news: IndigNews – With destructive wildfires impacting communities across Turtle Island,...
August 15, 2023
Qikiqtani Inuit Association Applauds the Inuit Circumpolar Council Greenland for winning the UN Development Programme’s 2023 Equator Prize
NationTalk: Iqaluit, Nunavut – The Qikiqtani Inuit Association (QIA) proudly extends its heartfelt congratulations to the Inuit Circumpolar Council-Greenland for receiving the UNDP’s 2023 Equator Prize for its work to advance an expansive, Inuit-led protected area in Pikialasorsuaq or the “North water Polynya.” This recognition underscores the pivotal role of Inuit-led initiatives in championing conservation,...
July 29, 2023
How Indigenous leaders are teaching youth on reserves to help their communities cope with disasters
The Preparing Our Home program helps young people learn to manage emergencies with communities’ needs in mind Click on the following link to listen to “What on Earth” https://www.cbc.ca/radio/whatonearth/indigenous-emergency-wildfires-youth-1.6917881 In the face of Canada’s worst wildfire season on record, a national program that teaches Indigenous youth to become emergency preparedness leaders is more important than...
July 27, 2023
Kahnawà:ke’s bay restoration hailed as an example of Indigenous-led conservation
Kanien’kéha community says environmental racism transformed this island. Now, the community is taking it back CBC News: When Cody Diabo recently learned that the bay restoration project on Kateri Tekakwitha Island was near complete, he took his family for a walk there to see its transformation from a dry, rocky shore into a marsh teeming with...
July 18, 2023
First Nations’ climate lens focuses in on strategy to tackle climate emergency
“It’s a state of emergency. It is. Against our lands, our people, the animals.” — Chief Terry Richardson of Papineau First Nation Lorraine Netro, Vuntut Gwitchin Elder and knowledge keeper Windspeaker.com: In 2019, Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation in North Yukon inside the Arctic Circle became the first community in Canada to declare a climate emergency....
July 12, 2023
Assembly of First Nations (AFN) Adopts Transformative National Climate Strategy
NationTalk: (Halifax, Unceded Mi’kma’ki Territory, NS) – Today, at the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) Annual General Assembly (AGA) taking place in Halifax, Nova Scotia, First Nations-in-Assembly passed Resolution 31/2023, endorsing the AFN National Climate Strategy and calling for urgent and transformative climate action to address the current climate crisis. Resolution 31/2023, Urgent and Transformative Climate...
June 8, 2023
Ancient Indigenous ‘clam gardens’ could be modern-day climate solution
Click on the following link to listen to the above audio: https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/what-on-earth-clam-gardens-indigenous-climate-1.6869870?cmp=newsletter_Morning%20Headlines%20from%20CBC%20News_1613_1117388 For close to four millennia, “clam gardens” on beaches on the west coast of B.C. have provided First Nations with a supply of not just clams but other types of seafood. In the aftermath of the brutal 2021 heat dome on the West Coast, there’s...
May 28, 2023
Fighting fire with fire
How a B.C. Indigenous community is reintroducing traditional fire knowledge and practices to manage land vulnerable to wildfires The Globe and Mail: The setting was idyllic: a clearing of tawny grass, ringed by ponderosa pines under a robin’s egg sky. Trucks pulled up, coffee and doughnuts appeared on a tailgate and a dog lolled in...
April 13, 2023
Why is High Park on fire? How Indigenous-led prescribed burns protect the land
Burn to take place Thursday to encourage growth in black oak savannah ecosystem CBC News: High Park is on fire— but it’s all part of the plan. The City of Toronto will be engaging in prescribed burns, an intentional preservation method, to protect the rare black oak savannah ecosystem within the park. The city, which has...
February 3, 2023
AFN calls for urgent and transformative climate action led by Indigenous Peoples following COP27: UN Climate Change Conference 2022
NationTalk: Assembly of First Nations SUMMARY: In line with First Nations-in-Assembly resolution: Declaring a First Nations Climate Emergency (AGA 2019), the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) sent a delegation to the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP 27) for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) which took place in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, November 6 to 20,...