Date/Time
Date(s) - 06/03/2024
8:30 am - 6:00 pm

Event Description

D?dwasnyeha` Dwano:ha` Ohw?jade “We Will Take Care of Mother Earth” Traditional Ecological Knowledge Summit will guide and inform ecological restoration. The goal is to promote dialogue between conservationists and Indigenous people. We are developing ways Indigenous ecological knowledge can lead, inform and shape conservation policy and practice. Six Nations of the Grand River has been engaged in efforts to achieve health and well-being that is directly tied to healthy ecosystems that they are apart of. The environmental degradation is manifesting in Indigenous communities through proxies such as deteriorating the natural world. It is our goal to learn from leading local and international experts in the field of Indigenous conservation. The Hadenosaunee has always understood that humans and their environment are inextricably linked. By co-creating contemporary management systems, technologies, and bi-lateral governance structures that engage in cultural practices and worldviews are proven to be the most resilient (UN IPCC 2022). The Summit will highlight innovative approaches, develop a strategy that incorporates Indigenous knowledge and ways of knowing and advance knowledge mobilization and engagement. By engaging with local Indigenous students, administrators, educators, knowledge holders and conservationists, we will initiate a new era of reconciliation through land restoration and sustainability that will benefit all involved.

Timestamps:

0:00 – 20:20: Opening address and welcome by Jock Leroy Hill

21:30 – 31:20: Welcoming Words by Santee Smith, Chancellor of McMaster University

32:45 – 37:20: Councillor Veronica King-Jamieson, representing Chief Claire Sault, Mississauagas of the Credit

38:00 – 39:25: Welcoming by Sherrilyn Hill, Chief of Six Nations

40:00 – 44:30: Welcoming by Mark Hill, Indigenous Education Council

45:00 – 49:30: Opening remarks by David Farrar, President of McMaster University

49:45 – 54:00: Opening remarks by Rebecca Jamieson, Six Nations Polytechnic

45:05 – 2:27:00: Panel of Knowledge Holders

• Dr. Rick Montour, Moderator
• Jock Hill
• Norma Jacobs
• Barb Garlow
• Tom Porter

2:27:30 – 2:29:30: Dr. Robin Wall-Kimmerer introduction, moderated by Makasa Looking Horse

2:29:30 – 3:22:20: – Dr. Robin Wall-Kimmerer’s Keynote

3:22:20 – 3:28:30: Q&A

3:29:00 – 3:33:50: Honour song for speakers, Arvol Looking Horse

3:34:30 – 4:41:30: Lunch Break

4:42:50 – 5:50:00: Panel on Ethical Engagement with Traditional Ecological Knowledge

• Andrew Gronewold, Moderater
• Dr. Bev Jacobs Indigenous, Provost of Indigenous law at the University of Windsor
• Dr. Dawn Martin Hill, Ohneganos Water is Life Research Project
• Dr. Jerome Marty, International Joint Commission
• David Arquette, Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force

5:52:00 – 6:06:00: Health Break

6:06:00 – 6:58:00: What does Indigenous conservation look like?

• Dr. Adrianne Lickers Xavier, Moderator
• Samantha Whiteye, Indigenous Leadership Director, Carolinian Canada Coalition
• Kerdo Deer Kayanase, Ecological Team Lead, Traditional Ecological Knowledge Expert
• Bruce Hoffman, Community-Based Conservation and Ethnobotanist Expert
• Liliana Magiral, Co- Founder of Amazon Conservation Team

6:59:00 – 8:13:30: Breakout sessions led by Indigenous Professionals

8:15:00 – 8:22:10: Youth Report on Traditional Ecological Knowledge Recommendations

8:22:20 – 8:26:05: Wrap up by Karissa John, Six Nations Egowadiya’dagenha’ and Mark Hill, Indigenous Education Council

8:26:05 – 8:36:30: Introduction to dinner by Tawnya Brant, Yawékon Foods Catering

8:36:30 – 8:57:30: Wrap up by Karissa John, continued

8:57:30 – 9:03:10: Closing song by Santee Smith, Chancellor of McMaster University

9:03:10 – 9:07:10: Closing by Makasa Looking Horse