This newsletter connects you with Indigenous water and land rights through stories, research, articles, community voices, and art. Content from communities all across the world provide a grass roots perspective on issues of development including, but not exclusively, hydro development. For paper copies please contact: kelly@hydroalliance.ca or 204-474-9316 * Please note that an error was...Continue Reading
Original Article on the Winnipeg Free Press: A blockade of three Manitoba Hydro sites by Fox Lake Cree Nation ended on the weekend following talks between the Crown corporation and the First Nation. The Crown corporation announced an agreement had been reached following meetings with Hydro CEO Kelvin Shepherd, who arrived Friday morning at the...Continue Reading
Elders and Traditional Peoples Gathering: Anishinaabemowin dago Aki (Language and the Land) The connection that Languages have to the land constitutes an integral part of Indigenous people. You are invited to listen and learn from Elders who shall share their stories and teachings. Keynote speakers: The Honourable Justice Murray Sinclair and Dr. Michael Hart....Continue Reading
Honouring The Voices: Indigenous storytelling at University of Manitoba, Fort Garry Campus, March 7 to March 11, 2016 Oral history plays a vital role in understanding the past and sharing it with those who come after. The use of this form of storytelling is a way to pass information from generation to generation. Honouring the...Continue Reading
Conference: Rising up – A Graduate Student Conference on International Compact, Knowledge and Research in Indigenous Graduate Studies The University of Manitoba Native Studies Graduate Student Association from March 4 to March 5, 2016 will be hosting a two-day conference within which graduate students across all disciplines shall present their knowledge and research on the...Continue Reading
Due to unforeseen circumstances, including the conditions of winter roads in our province, the Indigenous Food Sovereignty is being rescheduled for June 21 to June 23, 2016. We would like to apologize for any inconvenience, however it is important that we acknowledge the transportation needs of our people. For any questions, kindly please call 204-947-2397Continue Reading
Too often we hear stories of food insecurity, of people going hungry, in Indigenous communities. Those stories are important, but so are the stories of how we are spending time on the land, growing, gathering, hunting, fishing, and trapping. In many cases, these traditional food practices; the knowledge, the ability and skills around the...Continue Reading
Jackson Osborne, a Cree elder and resident of Pimicikamak Cree Nation (Cross Lake), has been collecting traditional knowledge on and about the history of his nation’s traditional land for about thirty years. He has dedicated his life to documenting changes occurring in the natural environment, along Pimicikamak’s shorelines and its surrounding environments, through photos and...Continue Reading
Interchurch Council of Hydropower: Power North: Positive Action Plan More and more non-Indigenous Canadians feel a need for reconciliation with Indigenous people. They believe there is a need to make things right, to live together in a better way. But what exactly might reconciliation look like? Hydropower in Manitoba provides a good example. Manitobans are...Continue Reading
The gallery exhibition offers a multi disciplinary perspective of the effects of hydropower in northern Manitoba. Through personal stories, portrait, and paintings we are offered a small window into the deep and personal impacts hydro development has had on culture, families, infrastructure, the economy, and the environment. The exhibit will be on display until January...Continue Reading
