![\"\"](\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/indigadapt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1635\/2021\/05\/Canoe-300x155.png\")
\r\nLearning Outcomes<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/header>\r\n
\r\n\r\nBy the end of this module, you should be able to:\r\n
- \r\n \t
- Identify the Indigenous territories that you live in<\/li>\r\n \t
- Recognize the complexity of Indigenous cultures in Canada and the historical context that impacts our work today<\/li>\r\n \t
- Analyze the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action that relate to your work and personal life<\/li>\r\n \t
- Value learning from the past in order to inform decisions made in the present and futureReflect on how learning from the past informs current decisions for future based outcomes<\/li>\r\n \t
- Determine how Indigenous knowledge regards the concept of interconnectivity and how this practice can inform Land and Climate-based actions<\/li>\r\n \t
- Listen to the voices of different Indigenous climate leaders reflect upon the impacts of climate change in their territories<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
Introduction<\/h2>\r\nIndigenous communities around the world derive intergenerational knowledge systems, cultural wellness and governance practices from direct and enduring relationships to their home Lands and Waters. Additionally, Indigenous communities around the world experience the direct impacts of changing climate conditions, often not only needing to endure unprecedented changes to their traditional territories, landscapes and water-ways, but also the cultural practices and knowledge systems embedded in land-based relationships. Whether it be within the realm of climate adaptation or land management, Indigenous leadership and influence can enhance collective efforts towards the restoration of better-relations and practices with planet earth.\r\n\r\nAs you begin this course, it is helpful to first and foremost take time to consider your own relationship to Land and Waters. Do you know the traditional names of the territories you live on? What are the histories of these places? How does local Indigenous knowledge inform local initiatives in relation to Land management? You may also feel connected to where you live and\/or the place(s) where you grew up. This connection may even have stretched over many generations of your ancestors.\r\n\r\nIt is not uncommon for non-Indigenous Canadians to not know historical contexts and facts pertaining to local Indigenous Nations as content including Indigenous knowledge, histories and relations are only now included in educational curricula. Understanding that Canada\u2019s colonial history is important in how we re-envision the future. David Isaac and Chief Gordon Planes remind us that each Indigenous community has experienced colonization differently and not all communities are the same:\r\n\r\n<\/a>David Isaac<\/strong>\r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/mediaspace.royalroads.ca\/id\/0_jap6w7f3?width=400&height=28&playerId=23449792\r\n
![\"creative](\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/sandboxlambert\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1635\/2022\/01\/by-nc-nd-e1644205995790.png\")
\u00a0This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0<\/a>.<\/h6>\r\nDavid Isaac - Communities are in different places with colonization - Transcript<\/a><\/h6>\r\n<\/a>Chief Gordon Planes<\/strong>\r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/mediaspace.royalroads.ca\/id\/0_2jpfzfdc?width=400&height=28&playerId=23449792\r\n
\u00a0This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0<\/a>.<\/h6>\r\nChief Gordon Planes -Working in partnerships - Transcript<\/a><\/h6>\r\n
Indigenous-Led Climate and Ecological Modelling<\/h2>\r\n
![\"climate](\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/indigadapt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1635\/2022\/01\/Ibg1dCjg-e1648607308718.jpeg\")
<\/a>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThis course invites learners into deeper thinking, reflection and content pertaining to Indigenous perspectives in climate adaptation and mitigation. Ultimately, this course provides a space for learners to consider how and where Indigenous leadership can not only restore better-practice across social and political landscapes, but also heal relationships with our shared planet for future generations to come.\r\n\r\nIndigenous community governance, shared histories, cultural practices, languages and knowledge systems come from relationships to Land and Waters. These relationships are embedded within systems of accountability, responsibility and worldviews based on values that deem all life as innately interconnected. These relationships and responsibilities have stretched over millennia, therefore locating Indigenous knowledge keepers as vital leaders within Climate and Ecological Modelling systems.\r\n\r\nOften you might hear that Indigenous peoples have been here, in what we now call Canada, \u201csince time immemorial.\u201d This means that Indigenous peoples have been stewards of the land for as long as they've lived there. It\u2019s a legacy we all can learn from. Within the context of extreme climate changes and unprecedented conditions, it's important to recognize our common connections and responsibilities to the land and waters. Additionally, it is increasingly important for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous actors within the realms of climate action and management, to come together and co-create long-standing solutions that serve future generations.\r\n\r\nTake the time to listen to Chief Gordon Planes and David Isaac reflect upon the ways in which Indigenous Worldviews and Western Sciences can learn from one another:\r\n\r\n<\/a>Chief Gordon Planes<\/strong>\r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/mediaspace.royalroads.ca\/id\/0_pilqjqay?width=400&height=28&playerId=23449792\r\n\u00a0This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0<\/a>.<\/h6>\r\nChief Gordon Planes - Indigenous worldviews and western science - Transcript<\/a><\/h6>\r\n<\/a>David Isaac<\/strong>\r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/mediaspace.royalroads.ca\/id\/0_1q1ipiad?width=400&height=28&playerId=23449792\r\n
\u00a0This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0<\/a>.<\/h6>\r\nDavid Isaac-Indigenous Worldview as guiding light in tackling climate crises - Transcript<\/a><\/h6>\r\n
Traditional Territories and Indigenous Lands<\/h2>\r\n
![\"indigenous](\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/indigadapt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1635\/2022\/01\/Z46gENW4-scaled-e1648607315614.jpeg\")
<\/a>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThere are more than 630 Indigenous communities in Canada, and 203 in British Columbia alone. Each Nation maintains their own unique relationship to their homelands and waters that reflects the values of what can be described as stewardship. To this day, Indigenous communities maintain that they are a single piece within a larger interconnected web of shared life. The animals, the plants, the trees, the water-ways, the wind, the mountains, humans: all share relatives. In this way, the land is not something that can be owned, but rather, something to be cared for like a relative. From this teaching stemmed social, economic and political expressions that aligned with ethics of accountability, responsibility and shared care for the plant and all living entities.\r\n\r\nWhile Indigenous communities historically lived across territories and water-ways, today, Indigenous peoples live throughout various communities in Canada in reservations, settlements, treaty lands, traditional territories or co-management areas. There is also a large population of Indigenous people residing in cities across Canada.\r\n\r\nListen to Chief Gordon Planes reflect on the important first step of Territorial Acknowledgement:\r\n\r\n<\/a>Chief Gordon Planes<\/strong>\r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/mediaspace.royalroads.ca\/id\/0_unhzmjw2?width=400&height=28&playerId=23449792\r\n\u00a0This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0<\/a>.<\/h6>\r\nChief Gordon Planes - How can professionals help Indigenous re-adaptation- Transcript<\/a><\/h6>\r\n
\u201cLand has always been a defining element of Aboriginal culture. Land contains the languages, the stories, and the histories of a people. It provides water, air, shelter, and food. Land participates in the ceremonies and the songs. And land is home. Not in an abstract way. The Blackfoot in Alberta live in the shadow of Ninastiko or Chief Mountain. The mountain is a special place for the Blackfoot, and friends on the reserve at Standoff have told me more than once that, as long as they can see the mountain, they know they are home.\u201d (Thomas King, The Inconvenient Indian, p. 218.)<\/div>\r\nListen to the interview with Coralee Miller as she reflects upon the ways climate change impacts her traditional territories.\r\n\r\n<\/a>Coralee Miller<\/strong>\r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/mediaspace.royalroads.ca\/id\/0_gf89bqq1?width=400&height=28&playerId=23449792\r\n\u00a0This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0<\/a>.<\/h6>\r\nCoralee Miller \u2013 Impact on Traditional Territories - Transcript<\/a><\/h6>\r\n
Traditional territories<\/h2>\r\nTraditional territories are areas that an Indigenous community traditionally inhabited. While they may include reserves as part of the larger territory, they are often geographically larger and may include large urban centres such as Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto etc.\r\n
\r\n
![\"personal](\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/indigadapt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1635\/2022\/01\/ll1PcSVg-e1648607284331.jpeg\")
<\/a>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nTake the time to familiarize yourself with the names of the traditional territories you are currently located on; including the names of the Nations and languages of these places. Consider how you and your family are in relation to these lands and Indigenous Nations. Start to develop your own statement and or reflection that you can use next time you are invited to open a space in your professional or personal lives.\r\n\r\nDeveloping your own practice is an opportunity to challenge colonial norms that inform how we think about histories and relations to place. Additionally, they are meant to provide opportunities for individuals to contemplate their own personal responsibilities to the Lands that they live on. Beyond basic rhetoric and or reading a scripted version of a land acknowledgement, it is often welcomed to instead share your own thinking and cultivation of your own practice.\r\n\r\nRead the