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.
RBC AGM Outside Mobilization
Artwork by Rose Skead of Mishkeegogamang First Nation @rsskead
Date: Thursday, April 11, 2024
Time: 10 AM - 12 PM EDT, Local time
Location: Toronto Congress Centre, 644 Dixon Rd, Toronto, ON
On April 11th, stand in solidarity with frontline land defenders speaking truth to power at RBC’s Annual General Meeting! Hear speakers and land defenders from @yintahaccess, @pymtoronto , @keepersofthewater4life, @climatejusticeuoft, and many other communities resisting RBC’s destruction of their lands, waters, and peoples. Tell RBC: no more profiting off of genocide, land theft and climate chaos!
Need a ride? Buses available from downtown!
Gather at 8:45 AM at pick-up location
Meet us there, or register for a spot on one of our buses from St. George Subway Station
RBC AGM Water Walk
Date: Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Time: 1 PM EDT (Local time)
Location: Harbour Square Park (25 Queens Quay W, Toronto, ON)
Attention Tkaronto Allies! Indigenous Climate Action and Free Grassy are hosting a water walk Wednesday, April 10 at 1PM (local time) at Harbour Square Park (25 Queens Quay W, Toronto). We’re calling on allies to join in solidarity with Black and Indigenous community members affected by Royal Bank of Canada funded fossil fuel projects, who will be attending RBC’s AGM. There will be singers, drummers, a round dance, and speeches!
Speakers:
Judy Da Silva (Grassy Narrows Elder), Vanessa Gray (Divestment , Indigenous Climate Action), Chief Na’Moks (Hereditary Chief of Wet’suwet’en), Roishetta Ozane (Executive Director of The Vessel Project and The Gulf Fossil Finance Coordinator for Texas Campaign for The Environment who will speak to RBC’s financing of LNG in the Gulf of Mexico), Beze Gray ( Two-Spirit from Aamjiwnaang First Nation), Kolin Sutherland-Wilson (Gitxsan Nation), Jesse Stoeppler (Skeena Watershed Coalition), Cedar George-Parker (Tsleil-Waututh Nation), Tara Houska (Giniw Collective), Shaylee Holland (Youth delegate, Wet’suwet’en Nation), Anna-Marie Holland (Wet’suwet’en Nation), Dr. Crystal Cavalier-Keck (Citizen of the Occaneechi, Band of the Saponi Nation. CEO/CoFounder of 7 Directions of Service), Jason Crazy Bear Keck (7 Directions of Service)
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.
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!
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.
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
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