Water is Life Virtual Conference
Thursday, November 18 - Saturday, November 20
Over the 3 days we will offer amazing learning opportunities as we host speakers both locally and internationally who will speak on topics that all relate to water such as; food security, culture, language as well as current impacts to water.
We will be raffling off 3 greenhouses that are valued at $1500 each. The winner can choose a greenhouse for their community school, existing community garden, Indigenous University or Indigenous Community College.
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AGENDA
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CONFERENCE PRESENTERS
Jesse Cardinal
Executive Director for Keepers of the Water and Conference Moderator
Jesse Cardinal is from the Kikino Métis Settlement, where she grew up. She has seen a lot of changes to the lands and waters in her lifetime as well as a drastic decline in wildlife. She loves to listen to Elders talk about the how the land was, even before she was born. Jesse has been a youth worker, social worker and has grown into roles of coordinator and director for environmental groups. The community she is from was at one time primarily a Cree speaking community, but due to colonization that is no longer the case. Jesse is attending the Blue Quills University part-time to learn the Cree language with a goal to help keep the language alive in her community.
She welcomes partnerships with other individuals, organizations, communities, and Nations. “We need to keep going and working to protect our waters, lands and animals, every voice matters and we need to have hope for the youth. The more who know what it’s like to fish, to hunt, to pick berries, to speak their own language, to pray in love, the better off our world will be.”
Curtis Vinish
Conference Co-Moderator
Curtis Pilon-Vinish is Tagalog & Métis from Treaty Six Territory. He is graduate from the SUNTEP (Saskatchewan Urban Native Teachers Education Program) and currently in his first year of the Indigenous Land-Based Master's Program at the U of S. Curtis teaches a grade nine land-based and cultural program out of Oskâyak High School in Saskatoon. Recently, Curtis also began his acting career by appearing in an upcoming Disney and 20th Century Studios production film to be released in 2022. He has presented at various conferences such as the International Think Indigenous Education Conference, the Wîcêhtowin Aboriginal Engagement Conference, and the Auckland University of Technology: Noho Marae (New Zealand).
Sol Mamakwa
Water Crisis in Northern Ontario Indigenous Communities
Sol Mamakwa is the Member of Provincial Parliament for the Kiiwetinoong riding and is the Official Opposition Critic for Indigenous and Treaty Relations. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 2018 and is the first MPP to be elected for this riding. The Kiiwetinoong riding was created prior to the Ontario election in 2017, and the population is 68 percent Indigenous, making it the only riding in Ontario with a majority Indigenous population.
Sol is a member of Kingfisher Lake First Nation and is a resident of Sioux Lookout. His first language is Oji-Cree and he is a strong advocate for Indigenous language protection, equity in healthcare and education, and treaty rights.
Alex Wilson
Food Security Presentation: Opaskwayak Cree Nation Community Garden - Remapping traditional watersheds through community gardens, housing, and other land-bases initiatives
Alex Wilson, Opaskwayak Cree Nation, is a professor at the University of Saskatchewan. Her research and community work focuses on land based education, land protection and anti oppressive education. She has been involved with the OCN community gardens and other local efforts to support sustainable living.
Maude Barlow
The Global Fight for the Right to Water: Where Are We Now?
Maude Barlow is a Canadian activist and author. She chairs the board of Washington-based Food and Water Watch and Ottawa-based Blue Planet Project. Maude co-founded the Council of Canadians and chaired its board for over three decades. She serves on the Board of Advisors of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature and is a Councillor with the Hamburg- based World Future Council. Maude is the Chancellor of Brescia University College in London Ontario. Maude is the recipient of fourteen honorary doctorates as well as many awards, including the 2005 Right Livelihood Award (known as the “Alterna-tive Nobel”), the 2005 Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Fellowship Award, the Citation of Lifetime Achievement at the 2008 Canadian Envi-ronment Awards, the 2009 Earth Day Canada Outstanding Environmental Achievement Award, the 2009 Planet in Focus Eco Hero Award, and the 2011 EarthCare Award, the highest international honour of the Sierra Club (US).
In 2008/2009, she served as Senior Advisor on Water to the 63rd President of the United Nations General Assembly and was a leader in the campaign to have water recognized as a human right by the UN. She is the creator of the Blue Communities project in which municipalities pledge to protect water as a human right and a public trust and ban plastic bottled water. There are now more than 25 million people living in official Blue Community towns and cities, including Paris, Berlin, Brussels, Thessaloniki, Los Angeles, Vancouver and Montreal.
Maude is also the author of dozens of reports, as well as 20 books, including her latest, Boiling Point: Government Neglect, Corporate Abuse and Canada’s Water Crisis; and Whose Water is it Anyway? Taking Water Protection Into Public Hands. Her upcoming book, Still Hopeful, Lessons From a Life-time of Activism, will be published in March 2022.
Waasekom Niin
Saskatchewan Water Walk; Carrying on the Legacy of Josephine Mandamin
Waasekom is Turtle Clan Anishinaabe from Saugeen First Nation and the Kettle & Stoney Point First Nations on the southeastern shores of Lake Huron.
He is an avid paddler having led 4 ceremonial canoe journeys throughout the Great Lakes to raise awareness about Water, Climate Change, and Indigenous sovereign responsibilities. His journey began in response to the Water Walks where he has been a protector and Eagle Staff carrier on 7 Walks.
Waasekom is known for starting Picking Up the Bundles Canoe Journey, Niwiijiiwok Doodemak (Gathering of Clans), the Great Lakes Petition, Gganoonigonaa Zaagigan (The Lake is Speaking to Us), and most recently the Elegy of Ancestors.
Latasha Calf Robe
Niitsitapi Water Protectors
Matoomiikamootsakii (First Steals Woman), [english name Latasha Calf Robe] is a proud Kanaiakii from the Kainaiwa First Nation of Southern Alberta. Latasha is proud to carry the knowledge of her grandmother and is a proud mother of three beautiful Blackfoot children.
Latasha is the founder of the Niitsitapi Water Protectors and has been working to protect the headwaters of the Oldman Watershed from molestation at the hands of open-pit mining. Currently, Latasha also works at Mount Royal University as the Program Manager for Anitopisi and Map the System Canada.
Sleydo’ (Molly Wickham)
Update from the Gidimt’en Check-Point on Wet’suwet’en Territory
Sleydo’ (Molly Wickham) is the spokesperson for the Gidimt’en check-point on Wet’suwet’en territory. She holds the name in Cas Yikh (grizzly house) and has been living on and occupying the territory since 2014 with her husband and children. Gidimt’en check-point has been an Indigenous reoccupation site since 2018 which has been raided twice by militarized RCMP, once on January 7th 2019 and again on February 5th, 2020, as a result of grassroots resistance to the Coastal Gaslink pipeline project which would bring fracked gas from northeastern B.C to an LNG terminal near Kitimat. Sleydo’ has a masters degree in Indigenous Governance from the University of Victoria and is heavily involved in the Wet’suwet’en clan governance system.
Winona LaDuke
Water and Land Protection, Line 3 Pipeline and Food Security in Indigenous Communities
Winona LaDuke is a Harvard-educated economist, environmental activist, author, hemp farmer, grandmother, and a two-time former Green Party Vice President candidate with Ralph Nader. LaDuke specializes in rural development, economic, food, and energy sovereignty and environmental justice. Living and working on the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota, she leads several organizations including Honor the Earth (co-founded with The Indigo Girls 28 years ago), Anishinaabe Agriculture Institute, Akiing, and Winona’s Hemp.
These organizations develop and model cultural-based sustainable development strategies utilizing renewable energy and sustainable food systems. She is also an international thought leader and lecturer in climate justice, renewable energy, and environmental justice, plus an advocate for protecting Indigenous plants and heritage foods from patenting and genetic engineering. She has written seven books including, Recovering the Sacred, All Our Relations, Last Standing Woman, The Winona LaDuke Chronicles, and her newest work, To Be A Water Protector: The Rise of the Wiindigo Slayers.
Kevin Timoney
Hidden Scourge, the Effects of the Fossil Fuel Industry on Ecosystems and Our Democracy
Kevin Timoney is a well-rounded ecologist with 40 years of field, research, and writing experience that he uses to solve complex environmental and ecological problems. He has expertise in subarctic and boreal ecology, landscape ecology, vegetation, botany, climate, hydrology, wildlife, disturbance ecology, environmental contaminants, soils, statistics, and the assessment of change over space and time.
He has conducted research for federal and provincial governments, industry, non-governmental organizations, and First Nations. Clients have included BC Hydro, Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries, Parks Canada, University of Alberta, Alberta Government, the International Crane Foundation, Government of the Northwest Territories, Nunee Health Board Society (Fort Chipewyan), Keepers of the Athabasca, Keepers of the Water, Dene Tha First Nation, Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, Fort McKay First Nation, the Athabasca Tribal Council, Little Red River Cree First Nation, Global Forest Watch Canada, Sierra Club, Environmental Defence Canada, the Pembina Institute, World Wildlife Fund, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, Alberta Wilderness Association, Rocky Mountain Ecosystem Coalition, the Forest Stewardship Council, Friends of the Chinchaga, and the Castle-Crown Wilderness Coalition. He is an avid woodsman, naturalist, musician, gardener, and backcountry traveler.
His book, The Peace-Athabasca Delta: Portrait of a Dynamic Ecosystem (2013, University of Alberta Press), received numerous awards including the Lane Anderson Award for best science book published in Canada. His book, Impaired Wetlands in a Damaged Landscape: The Legacy of Bitumen Exploitation in Canada (2015, Springer) documented wholesale permanent landscape degradation resulting from bitumen exploitation in Alberta. His most recent book, Hidden Scourge: Exposing the Truth about Fossil Fuel Industry Spills (McGill-Queens University Press) was published in October 2021.
Paul Belanger
Tarsands Panel: The Alberta Government Wants to Start Dumping Toxic Tailings Ponds in the Athabasca River, Here is Why it Shouldn’t Happen
Paul Belanger is an environmentalist, entrepreneur and a designer. He has been a business owner since 1984 (24 years old) and also founded an environmental organization in 1987. He is currently focusing on a new research company which is patenting innovations of Belanger in the cleantech sector. Belanger’s education in the environmental sciences started at 14 years of age when he signed up to participate with the Youth Science Foundation. This education, which was project and research based included mentorship under scientists. Belanger continued this education for four years. In 1977 he was presented with a national “Environmental Design” award by the University of Calgary. Later Belanger continued mentoring under environmental architects for several more years.
In the early 1980’s, with very little work in the ecological design field, Belanger gained experience in the active Alberta oil industry. With enough knowledge and a few short business courses he started a company called Welflo Industries Ltd. This was an oilfield supply and safety company, which quickly grew over its ten year duration. Sales grew a constant 30% per year and expand to 25 employees by the tenth year. Belanger sold this company in 1994 to return to his preferred field of interest. In 1997, after 3 years of education and research, Belanger began an ecological design company called Living Design Systems (LDS). This company is still active. LDS absorbed many challenges over the years including introduction of innovations, education for clients, original research, on the job training, and inception of new building systems to permit authorities. These efforts have taken their toll on Belanger, but the original research investment has now lead to a new growth phase for LDS. LDS and Belanger were recognized with two Provincial design awards in 2012. in 1989/1990, the environmental group Belanger helped to start, organized and opened the first town recycling centre in Western Canada (Valleyview Alberta). It was modelled after and inspired by the Edmonton north-side recycling operation which had started a couple of years earlier by a Mennonite Group. This was a co-operative effort with supportive participation from the town of Valleyview and federal funding of $200,000 for equipment and building. This recycling system promoted by the Green Foundation spread quickly into the Grande Prairie Area and other regions in the Province.
Jean L’hommecourt
Tarsands Panel: The Alberta Government Wants to Start Dumping Toxic Tailings Ponds in the Athabasca River, Here is Why it Shouldn’t Happen
Jean L’Hommecourt is an Indigenous Denesulinè, Registered Member of Treaty 8 with the Fort McKay First Nation, AB. Blessed with 4 daughters and 1 Son, and a proud grandmother to 7 grandchildren. Raised traditionally on the Land by her parents, Norbert LHommecourt and Annie LHommecourt (nee Boucher), on the Eastbank of Athabasca River on the homeland territory called Poplar Point. At the age of 6, she and her younger twin sisters were the last remaining children of 9 siblings to be taken from her family and placed in the Holy Angels’ Residential School at Fort Chipewyan. There she remained for the
following 6 years. After being released from Residential, the home she knew as a child was abandoned and her family took up residency at a place called Moccasin Flats, Fort McMurray, AB Jean attended Jr. and Sr. High School in Fort Chipewyan Bishop Piche School and St. John Jr High and Composite High School in Fort McMurray. Graduated from the Office Administration Certificate Program at Aurora College in Yellowknife, NT. Completed a Certificate Program with Treaty 8 Housing Inspector Training Program at NAIT College in Edmonton, AB.
She has spent years residing in the Northwest Territories in an isolated community of Lutselkè and in the city of Yellowknife. One of her memorable stays was living on the barrenlands for six months with her infant in the winter season, and then traveling back by dogteam. Living in the pristine north has inspired and motivated her to advocate for the land and water and the cultural Dene Way of Life.
Since returning to Fort McKay First Nation, she has worked tirelessly, advocating for the Denesulinè traditional territory and the environment by representing her community through many different forums, committees, and working groups. She served as an expert witness panel for the Shell JackPine Mine Expansion Hearing, Teck Frontier Mine Hearing, Prosper Petroleum Hearing. Participated in the Aboriginal Advisory CEMA Working Group to the end; Was a Panel guest speaker of the 2018 17th North American Caribou Workshop in Ottawa. Attended the Solutions to Solidarity Week of Workshop Rallys and Marches in San Francisco, California. Participated in Keepers of the Water Gatherings since its first inception and is now serving as a chairperson. Represents FMFN as a community member for the National Alliance Healthy Hearts, Healthy Minds Health Study. Represents FMFN as a member on the Aboriginal Task Force with ALPAC Land Advisory Group. Is a member on the Suncor McClelland Lake Wetlands Committee for the proposed Fort Hills Expansion, and represents the FMFN on the many CAGs(Community Advisory Groups) with the surrounding Industry Companies. Outspoken on the many atrocities that the First Nations face through media relations and international news articles.
In her 25 years of employment history with the Fort McKay First Nation, she has held positions as Receptionist-Secretary; Indian Registration Administrator, Employment and Training Coordinator and Housing Manager. Additionally, with the Industry Relations Corporation as the Environmental Coordinator, Trapper/Trapline Coordinator, Traditional Land Use Researcher, and currently holds the title; Traditional Land Use Specialist, which is now called the Sustainability Department.
John O’Connor
Tarsands Panel: The Alberta Government Wants to Start Dumping Toxic Tailings Ponds in the Athabasca River, Here is Why it Shouldn’t Happen
Family Physician and Hospitalist in the Fort McMurray area since 1993, serving the Indigenous communities outlying since 1994. Member of the Keepers since 2006. Board member: Safe Drinking Water Foundation of Canada.
Strong and committed advocate for residents downstream of the tars ands in Northern Alberta.
Was awarded 2021 Peter Bryce Prize that honours individuals who serve the greater good by courageously speaking up about wrongdoing and abuses of public trust. His reports, starting in 2006, of an unexpected number of cancers and other health problems among the residents of the remote northern Alberta community of Fort Chipewyan were rebuffed by authorities and led to an ongoing fifteen year struggle for the health rights of this largely Indigenous community and others downstream from the Alberta oil sands.
Married to Charlene RN, with seven children and seven grandchildren.
George Poitras
Tarsands Panel: The Alberta Government Wants to Start Dumping Toxic Tailings Ponds in the Athabasca River, Here is Why it Shouldn’t Happen
George Poitras is an internationally recognized name in the global debate on Canada’s tarsands. An Indigenous Canadian from downstream of the tarsands, Poitras is a former Chief and from the Mikisew Cree First Nation in northeastern Alberta.
His voice has been very instrumental in bringing the tarsands debate to a global height primarily because of his vested interest as a local Indigenous person who has seen unprecedented environmental, social and human impacts. Coupled with this, Poitras has been very critical of the Alberta and Canadian governments who in his words, “have been asleep at the wheel” since day one of the development of Canada’s tarsands, some 40 plus years ago.
Concerned about his peoples land, air, water, animal and bird health concerns, Poitras has relentless confronted the responsible authorities for their total lack of concern or action to protect its citizens interests. Central to Poitras’ fight has been watching the numbers of cancers grow, unusual and aggressive cancers that governments were quick to deny but which was proven in a government cancer study in 2009. This study confirmed his community’s worse fears, that there are growing numbers of unusual and aggressive cancers in his community downstream from all Canada’s tarsands activities.
Poitras travels extensively including outside of Canada to bring messages of on the ground, local observations of Canada’s tarsands industry. He has delivered messages to annual shareholders meetings of Shell, BP, Statoil. He has met with the White House Environmental Quality Committee, the US State Department in their deliberations of whether the Keystone XL Pipeline should be built. He has travelled and met with local Indigenous peoples in the Amazon and from Nairobi’s delta who also experience similar fates. He is featured in several documentaries that have been premiered internationally. Poitras’ voice in this international debate is respected and one that has seen the government and industry sit up and take notice.
Dr. Diana Steinhauer
Water Sovereignty
Dr. Diana Steinhauer, Cree, from Saddle Lake Cree Nation in Treaty No. 6 Territory, is an educator with 30 years of experience in teaching, curriculum development, and administration in K-12 schools and post-secondary institutions. Most importantly, she is a mother and first teacher of her two children; grandchildren. She currently serves as the President of Yellowhead Tribal College. Diana completed her Doctorate in iyiniw pimātisiwin kiskeyitamowin (Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledge) at University n Blue Quills. She is particularly grateful to Elders and Knowledge Keepers who have guided and mentored her in ancestral knowledge and ways of being as a kise iskwew. Recognizing the value and work of iyiniw pimātisiwin, Diana’s work as a change agent in language, education, and governance is grounded upon her late father’s adage, pimātisîtotetân kimiyikowisiwininaw, Let us live life the way our Creator intended us to live.
Leo Cerda
Indigenous Voices from the Amazon; Protecting Waters and Lands - Yumi Pujutan Sukagtawai - Water is Life
Leo Cerda is in Serena in the Ecuadorian Amazon. He is a climate activist and Indigenous rights defender who focuses on the efforts to build a more just and sustainable society. He is the founder of the HAKHU Project, an Indigenous led organization that supports community-based initiatives as a way to generate positive social change while protecting Indigenous territories and the planet. His work is inspired in the Amazon to most importantly create alternative sources of income providing an outlet to establish and support the livelihoods of the Indigenous women across the Amazon. Leo serves in many organizations locally and internationally bridging Indigenous community initiatives and international support. He is currently producing his own web series – Amazon stories to amplify the voices of Indigenous leaders and game changers that are making a difference in protecting our planet.
Leo strives to support, inspire and share the harrowing, powerful stories of young Indigenous leaders across Latin America. Ultimately, he wants to elevate individuals in frontline communities and ignite a generation of confident, powerful, environmental warrior. He currently serves as the general coordinator of the Black Indigenous Liberation Movement.
Clelia Jima Chamiquit
Indigenous Voices from the Amazon; Protecting Waters and Lands - Yumi Pujutan Sukagtawai - Water is Life
Clelia Jima Chamiquit has been the secretary of The Awajun-Wampis, Umukaik Yawi, Women’s Council (COMUAWUY- El Consejo de Mujeres Awajun Wampis Umukai Yawi in Spanish) that is a non-profit organization representing women from communities in districts that are on the Santiago and Cenepa rivers, in Nieve in the Condorcanqui district, and Imaza, Aramago in the Bagua District of the Amazon region of Peru.
The Women’s Council is involved in the following.
Improve family living conditions.
Bring women to the forefront of Tajimat Pujut – Full Life – Community Wellness (Buen Vivir - true well-being made possible as part of a community that includes all living beings.).
Ensure that the Buen Vivir framework has its basis in Awajun and Wampis gender reciprocity.
Strengthen the position, participation, and recognition of Amazonian Indigenous women and their knowledge in public, private, local, regional, and international sectors.
Empower Indigenous women to fully exercise their rights and citizenship through capacity building and leadership promotion.
Promote Awajun women to participate in communal, local, and regional decision making along with equitable participation in all government spaces.
Affirm the role of Amazonian women on par with the men in these communities.
Create awareness of women’s roles in the maintenance of cultural values, within social and political spaces.
Ensure engagement of women as voices and actors in the impacts of climate change, community agriculture, and as artisans as they are involved in contributing to the development of their provinces and regions.
Clelia has served her community in a variety of capacities for the last 20 years. She has a Masters Degree in Public Management and is an official translator and interpreter of the Awajun Language. Clelia brings with her the wisdom of community and women empowerment as she stands up for the political and social rights of the Awajun-Wampis Nations.
Melva Ampam
Indigenous Voices from the Amazon; Protecting Waters and Lands - Yumi Pujutan Sukagtawai - Water is Life
Melva Ampam Dupuis is a member and valued contributor to the The Awajun-Wampis, Umukaik Yawi, Women’s Council (COMUAWUY- El Consejo de Mujeres Awajun Wampis Umukai Yawi in Spanish). Melva had a lead role in the Ancestral School Project funded by CIDA and partnered with National Native Addictions Partnership Foundation in Canada. Melva currently works in the MIDIS Juntos Program that delivers education, empowerment, and health services to a variety of communities in the Condorconqui region of the Peruvian Amazon. She is a professional accountant and has skills in graphic design. Melva stands up for the Awajun-Wampis communities and women as she dedicates her life to the lands and waters.
Susana Deranger
Indigenous Voices from the Amazon; Protecting Waters and Lands - Yumi Pujutan Sukagtawai - Water is Life
Sue Deranger is a member of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation who has been a strong voice for environmental, social justice, and the upholding of Indigenous and Treaty rights for many years. She has worked nationally, provincially, locally, and internationally in these areas. Sue is the co-founder of Mother Earth Justice Advocates and is currently a member of Indigenous Climate Action, Green Roots = Sustainable Development, Keepers of the Water, and Righting Relations. She has a passion for the unity of all peoples and the protection of Mother Earth. Her four children, four grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren motivate her to strive for a better world.
Amelia “Amy” Ahnaughuq Topkok, B.F.A., M.A.
Healing through Inupiaq Skin-Sewing
“Uvaŋa atiġa Ahnaughuq. My Iñupiaq name is Ahnaughuq, which means ‘Little Girl.’ I’m named after my paternal Ahna (grandmother) Katherine Koiyuk (Eningowuk) Barr of Shishmaref. My white-fox name is Amy Topkok.” Mrs. Topkok was born in Kotzebue, Alaska.
Her parents are Delano Nanauq and Minnie Saumik Barr of Shishmaref and Noatak, Alaska. She is full-blooded Iñupiaq, and she speaks fluent Norwegian, little Iñupiaq, and grew up with English.
Amy is currently in the Indigenous Studies Ph.D. program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Her research interests are looking at Iñupiat skin-sewing from a woman’s perspective through a family and regional approach in relationship to cultural identity and values. She has taught several courses including Alaska Native Dance, Appreciation of Alaska Native Performance, and Indigenous Peoples of Alaska. Personal interests include skin-sewing, making atikłut (plural for atikłuk, Iñupiaq regalia – like a summer shirt with a flounce), berry picking,making homemade berry jam, photography, and drawing.
Makere Stewart-Harawira
Rivers and Rights: An Indigenous View from Aotearoa New Zealand
Dr. Makere Stewart-Harawira is an enrolled member of the Waitaha Taiwhenua ki Waitaki tribe in Aotearoa New Zealand and has been actively engaged in issues related globalization, Indigenous rights and fresh water governance or many decades.
Makere is an Expert Member on a number of Commissions for the International Union for the Conservation, including the Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy, joint Specialist Group on Indigenous Peoples, Customary & Environmental Laws and Human Rights, and the Commission on Ecosystem Management. She is also a Board Member for the Keepers of the Water NGO, Canada. She is a Professor of Indigenous, Environmental and Global Studies in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Alberta at the University of Alberta.
Makere’s engagement and research reflect her passion for and commitment to global transformation, climate change, freshwater protection and governance, multispecies justice and our co-habitation of planet earth. As global society struggles to transition to new modes of co-existence, the contributions of Indigenous communities and Indigenous traditional knowledge systems are critical to this process.
Her published work includes Troubled Waters: Maori Values and Ethics for Freshwater Management and New Zealand’s Fresh Water Crisis. WIREs Water, 2020; Resilient Systems, Resilient Communities, 2018; Returning the sacred: Indigenous ontologies in perilous times in Williams, Roberts & McIntosh, Radical Human Ecology: Intercultural and Indigenous Approaches, 2012; The New Imperial Order. Indigenous Responses to Globalization, 2005.