Exploring Theme: "Indigenous Leadership Initiative: Guardians"

22 Indigenous governments sign on to 10-year funding agreement  CBC News: Twenty-two Indigenous governments in the Northwest Territories have signed on to a funding agreement worth $375 million over the next 10 years meant to be used for conservation, stewardship and more. A ceremony took place in Behchokǫ̀ Thursday morning to mark the signing, with...

Owen Bear, 23, became a lands guardian for Poplar River First Nation on Aug. 12 CBC Indigenous: Owen Bear is learning to love the land, designated as Canada’s first mixed cultural and natural World Heritage Site, which surrounds his home community of Poplar River First Nation. The area is known as Pimachiowin Aki, which in...

Guardians on the land in the Seal River watershed, a proposed Indigenous Protected and Conserved Area in northern Manitoba. Canada’s National Observer: It’s hard for Gillian Staveley not to get choked up over her northern British Columbia Indigenous guardian program. In the summer, there are cultural camps for youth, and all the while, monitor work...

NationTalk: Parks Canada – Today, Mi’kmawey Kapmnt Ta’n Nikana’tu’tij Epekwitnewaq Mi’kmaw-Saqmaq — the Mi’kmaw Nation Government of Prince Edward Island, as represented by the Prince Edward Island Chiefs, Chief Darlene Bernard of Lennox Island First Nation and Chief Junior Gould of Abegweit First Nation, and the Honourable Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Environment and Climate Change...

Shaunna Morgan Siegers, interim executive director of the First Nations National Guardians Network. Photo by Matteo Cimellaro / Canada’s National Observer Listen to article Canada’s National Observer – On the eve of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Ottawa announced a $12.8-million expansion to the Indigenous Guardians program, which funds moccasins on the ground to support Indigenous-led...

NationTalk: VICTORIA – New measures to sustain the Great Bear Rainforest as one of the world’s most treasured and diverse coastal temperate forest ecosystems have been introduced. Coastal First Nations, the Nanwakolas Council and the Ministry of Forests, have worked in partnership to identify new steps to be taken as part of strengthening implementation of...

New programs will ensure stewardship of lands, waters, and ice based on Indigenous values and cultures NationTalk: Parks Canada – The Government of Canada is committed to a process of reconciliation and renewed relationships with Indigenous peoples based on recognition, respect, co-operation, and partnership. The recognition of the important role Indigenous peoples play in the...