ICA celebrates Indigenous Peoples’ Day

Supporting Indigenous Sovereignty is one of ICA’s key pathways for building capacity for climate justice. This month we are excited to share that we were able to co-fundraise and contribute just over $10,000 CAD to the ‘Building Movements in Defense of Life’ fundraiser.

Today and this week we mourn with 215 families. We are taking this time to grieve and to feel all the emotions that have come up with the news of the unmarked mass grave discovered at the Kamloops Indian Residential School.

For the first time, Indigenous Climate Action is partnering with the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics to host a 3-day conference for Indigenous Economics: Reclaiming the Sacred. Taking place virtually from June 10-12, 2021, this conference will focus on 4 different themes of achieving a Just Transition to Indigenous-led, land-based, and ecologically-centred environmental action and economies. Indigenous folks are encouraged to contact Maggie at research@indigenousclimateaction.com to register.

Despite repeated requests for agreements that ensure inherent Indigenous rights and the protection of the lands and waters, housing developers of Oka, Quebec are pushing ahead with a desire for unfettered real estate development.

Ellen Gabriel shared the following speech on May 22nd, 2021 at a grassroots action of the Kanehsata:Ke Land Defence in defence of the Rotinonhseshá:ka Homelands and the Kanien’kehá:ka of Kanehsatà:ke.

SEIS NACIONES DEL TERRITORIO DEL GRAND RIVER – El 20 de abril, frente a la casa comunal de los onondaga, el Consejo de Jefes de la Confederación Haudenosaunee de Ohsweken/Seis Naciones del Territorio del Grand River anunció una moratoria sobre nuevos proyectos urbanísticos a lo largo de la zona de Haldimand.

Infórmate sobre la situación en Nueva Escocia, donde los pescadores mi’kmaq siguen luchando por ejercer sus derechos recogidos en los tratados para pescar y ganarse la vida de forma digna. Escrito por la periodista mi’kmaq Amber Bernard.

An introduction to our new Youth Engagement Lead, Shay lynn Sampson

With the curriculum development complete, the toolkit team felt it would be a good idea to have our Community Engagement Lead, Jayce Chiblow, practise some of the exercises that were tougher to adapt to an online/distance environment. Our goal was to test functionality and to find ways to improve these online modifications. Keeping in mind the results of our Youth Needs Assessment, ICA felt the best way to do this was to invite 10 youth from our network to join the session to offer input and feedback into these exercises while also gauging interest in the program.

Check out our Winter 2021 newsletter to read about what we’ve been doing over the last few months!