Events + Opportunities
Renewables in Remote Communities Conference 2024
The Renewables in Remote Communities (RiRC) Conference convenes a wide range of Indigenous leaders, government, industry, utilities and more for dialogue on renewable energy development in remote Indigenous communities across Canada.
Indigenous Foods Symposium: “Living Breath of wǝɫǝbʔaltxw”
“Living Breath of wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ” Indigenous Foods Symposium to be held on May 3-4, 2024, at the University of Washington.
2024 National Tribal Leaders Climate Summit
The 2024 National Tribal Leaders Climate Summit will convene leaders from Tribes and First Nations to advance tribal climate change policy and action.
Alaska Just Transition Summit
The Alaska Just Transition Collective’s Just Transition Summit is a gathering to share knowledge, skills, inspiration, and connect about the equity and justice work we are doing in our communities. Register today an join us as we build pathways to liberation.
A Call to Action Webinar
On March 10, join Hereditary Chief Na’Moks, Eve Saint, Cedar George-Parker, and Sarah Shamy to talk about the impact of their work against RBC and the power that they have built in the Indigenous Divestment movement.
Northwest Intertribal Food Sovereignty Summit
The Northwest Intertribal Food Sovereignty Summit will bring together Tribal community leaders, youth, elders, Tribal food enterprises, Native food entrepreneurs, Native food producers, traditional food champions, funders, government agencies, and others to discuss, share and learn about Tribal food economies, small business development, climate resilience, and youth engagement in food systems and tradition.
Gitxsan and Gitanyow Resistance to Colonial Mega Projects
On Tuesday, March 5th at 5.30PM PT, please join this hour-long webinar to hear about current colonial projects facing Gixtsan people.
Panel: How UNDRIP is Changing the Duty to Consult and the Evolving Meaning of Consultation
Panel: How UNDRIP is Changing the Duty to Consult and the Evolving Meaning of Consultation
Date: February 21, 2024
Time: 10:30 AM MST (local time)
Location: Matrix Hotel, Edmonton, AB
This panel discussion, as part of the Western Indigenous Consultation & Engagement conference hosted by The Canadian Institute, will include:
Examining a “then and now” review of treaties in Northern Canada on the 30th Anniversary of the Modern Northern Land Claims Agreements
Examining the federal government’s efforts to develop resources in First Nation communities
Decolonizing the process of engagement and consultation
Communicating information throughout the entire community
Speakers:
Eriel Deranger, Executive Director, Indigenous Climate Action
Jay Telegdi, Manager Government Relations, Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation
Brian Fung, Manager, Government Relations, Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation
Dale Swampy, President, National Coalition of Chiefs
Anti-Oppression and Intersectionality 101 Workshop
The goal of this workshop is to equip participants with foundational concepts and tools that help you develop and uphold anti-oppressive and intersectional environmentalist practices in your organizing.
Settler Colonial Continuities: The Energy Transition in Indian Country
Settler Colonial Continuities: The Energy Transition in Indian Country
Date: Thursday, February 15, 2024
Time: 4:00 - 6:00 PM (local time)
Location: Helliwell Centre, Osgoode Hall Law School
Join the first event in a new speaker series, “Up in Flames: Anticolonial Impulses for a Radically-Just Transition”, sponsored by York’s Global Labour Research Centre and the Infrastructure Beyond Extractivism project.
Professor Andrew Curley from the University of Arizona’s School of Geography, Development & Environment will talk on “Settler Colonial Continuities: The Energy Transition in Indian Country”. Professor Deborah Cowen of University of Toronto’s Department of Geography & Planning as commentator.
The talk will be followed by a reception. All are welcome.
Rally to Protect the Kichi Sibi
Date: February 14, 2024
Time: 1 PM (local time)
Location: Parliament Hill, Ottawa
Scrap the NSDF (Near-Surface Disposal Site) Project Approval
Algonquin nations resisting the construction of a nuclear disposal site, just 1 KM from the Kichi Sìbì (Ottawa River). This will not only impact local communities along the river, but citizens living in Ottawa that rely on this river for drinking water.
Show up and demand this project be scrapped!
Learning from the Indigenous Land Rights Movement
Date: Tuesday, February 13, 2024
Time: 8 AM PST / 9 AM MST / 10 AM CST / 11AM EST / 12 PM AST / 12:30 PM NST
Location: Zoom, Register Here
Hosted by International Funders for Indigenous Peoples. Delve into real-world case studies showcasing Indigenous leadership, resistance, and their engagement in the land rights movement. These valuable insights and best practices will shed light on successful strategies employed by Indigenous communities in their quest to reclaim land and reaffirm their sacred relationship with it.
Structure 101 Workshop
The goal of this workshop is to equip participants with decision-making reflections and frameworks that help them guide their groups towards establishing a group structure that lines up with the group's purpose and Theory of Change.
Securing Indigenous Peoples' Right to Self-Determination
Join us for a discussion about FPIC and FPIC community protocols.
How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis
At this event, movement leaders and change-makers will weave together stories, worldviews, and experiences of restoration and justice that demonstrate the world we know is possible and needed.
Strategy 101 Workshop
The goal of this workshop is to equip participants with frameworks and decision-making tools that help guide groups collaboratively towards creating solid strategies.
Just Transition Guide Fireside Chat with David Suzuki & Melina Laboucan-Massimo
Join us for a fireside chat between two of Turtle Island’s most prominent environmental activists on climate change and Indigenous leadership!
Value Change for Survival: Facing Climate Change from a Haudenosaunee Point of View
Tuscarora historian, artist, and educator, Rick Hill currently serves as the Indigenous Innovation Specialist for Mohawk College in the development of a new school on Climate Action. “By rebuilding our personal relationship to the Mother Earth, we will embrace the values necessary to ensure future generations will be born into a sustainable world. This presentation will examine the underlying values of land holding, gratitude for what nature provides and the conducts necessary to halt the continued disregard for the sacred earth.”
Winter Legends: Haudenosaunee Star Teachings
Want to learn how connected we are to the Cosmos? Join Indigenous Youth Roots Winter Legends event featuring Samantha Doxtator to learn about Haudenosaunee star teachings.
Indigenous Just Transition Southwest Regional Gathering
Attention Local Indigenous grassroots, Traditional Knowledge-Holders and spiritual leaders:
The Indigenous Environmental Network is hosting an Indigenous Just Transition Southwest Regional Gathering, exchanging knowledge, practices, and solutions between local grassroots, Traditional Knowledge Holders, and spiritual leaders.
This three-day convening will feature a variety of presentations, breakout sessions, site-visits, and discussions on regenerative economies, food sovereignty, renewable energy, Inherent Relationship Jurisprudence/Rights of Nature, community resistance against extractivism and more!
For more information, email missy@ienearth.org
Just Transition Guide Virtual Community Launch
Join Sacred Earth Solar and Indigenous Climate Action to celebrate the launch of our Just Transition Guide!
Climate Camp
Join Climate Justice Edmonton from October 13-15 for Climate Camp in Edmonton, AB.
Land Alliance March
On September 27 at 12 PM, join five First Nations to march in alliance with the land against unwanted mining!
Data Sovereignty & First Nations Principles of OCAP
Data Sovereignty & First Nations Principles of OCAP by First Nations Information Governance Center.
WECAN: Women Ending the Era of Fossil Fuels
Women Ending the Era of Fossil Fuels and Leading a Just Transition hosted by WECAN
A Peoples' Climate Week: Teach-In & People's Assembly
Join us for a teach-in and assembly during New York Climate Week at The New School, Tuesday, September 19, 2023.
Global Climate Strike
Join land defenders, and allies on September 15, 2023 for a Global Climate Strike in Vancouver, BC.
Indigenous Approaches to Collective Care
Indigenous Approaches to Collective Care
Date: August 16, 2023
Time: 7 - 9 PM (EDT)
Location: Zoom
This workshop is centered around Indigenous approaches to care and harm reduction. Collective care has existed within Indigenous nations since time immemorial, understanding Indigenous approaches to care provides community members with the tools to better walk alongside their communities.
ASL interpretation and automatic closed captioning will be provided.
ABOUT SAIGE MCMAHON
Saige McMahon (she/her) is an Anishnaabekwe settler mix from Treaty 3 Territories, Rainy River First Nations. She identifies as being a part of the queer community. She is the Director of the Indigenous led Crisis Response Pilot, and has been working in various capacities with 2-Spirited People of the 1st Nations for roughly 5 years.
ABOUT SURJ TORONTO'S ALTERNATIVES TO 911 COMMUNITY SKILL-BUILDING SERIES
The Alternatives to 911 Community Skill-Building Series
is a Toronto-based workshop series run by SURJ Toronto with facilitators from local grassroots abolitionist organizations. The series aims to equip community members with the knowledge and skills needed to engage in crisis intervention, without relying on the police. It seeks to build community capacity while rejecting police intervention and other forms of violent, punitive or carceral crisis response.
Final Licensing Hearing for the Ottawa River Near Surface Nuclear Waste Disposal Facility
Join land defenders in Ottawa on August 10, 2023 from 9 AM - 12 PM to say no to a Near Surface Nuclear Waste Disposal Facility.
POSTPONED: Healing Walk 2023
Keepers of the Water and Indigenous Climate Action will be postponing the 2023 Tar Sands Healing Walk until further notice.
While the focus of this event was to support local communities impacted by the tar sands, these same communities are now in a state of crisis and displacement due to the intense and early season forest fires. Our focus in the coming months will now be to support communities through this climate disaster.
History of the Healing Walk
The Tar Sands Healing Walk began in 2010, bringing together Indigenous peoples, with the support of allies, to call for healing for the Athabasca region. The 14 kilometer ceremonial walk circles the Syncrude Open-Pit Tailings Mine in Treaty 8 Territory and brings together voices and prayers from across the region.
The last walk in 2014 gathered over 700 participants signaling a strong and clear message: we need to unite all peoples across Turtle Island, Indigenous and Non-Indigenous, to protect the land, water, air, and all living beings from the destruction of the Tar Sands and its pipelines.
In 2023, Keeper of the Water and Indigenous Climate Action are honored to come together to revive the Healing Walk and reaffirm support for our Indigenous relatives most impacted by extractive industries in so-called Alberta and help strengthen capacity for ongoing collective healing and movement building in these territories.
Workshop: Liberatory Methods for Investigating and Generating Non-Capitalist / Anti-Colonial Social Power
This workshop will be provided by El Cambalache from its Department of Decolonial Economics.