Throughout the year, Keepers of the Water gathers to celebrate and honour our life-sustaining waters and to work on watershed stewardship plans to protect the Arctic Ocean Drainage Basin. Since our formation in 2006, Keepers of the Water has co-hosted an annual gathering in different Indigenous Communities in Alberta, B.C., Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and N.W.T.

The solutions to the climate crisis we are all facing are embedded in our Creations stories, collective histories, original languages, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge, or Indigenous Science.

Throughout our years of work, we’ve helped lead other public events, like the Tar Sands Healing Walks, lifted up Indigenous Voices at RBC AGMs, advocated for the legal protection of Indigenous Traditional Knowledge and FPIC in International negotiation spaces like INC4, COP Biodiversity, and COP Emissions, actively seeking Personhood for Rivers, and supported community-led initiatives and direct actions to protect and enforce Indigenous rights.