The People of Ărramăt
Kevin Ahkimnachie
Co-applicant, member of Dene Tha' First Nation in northwestern Alberta, Canada and Director of Livelihoods at Treaty 8 First Nations of Alberta. Kevin speaks Tsaat'ine and lives in both Chateh and Edmonton, AB, Canada.
Alexander & Luba Arbachakov
Collaborators, members of the Shor nation. Alexander and Luba are located in Tashtagol, Kemerovo Oblast.
Alejandro Argumedo
Co-Applicant, Researcher and led of Association ANDES. He is Quechua and is located in in Lima, Peru.
James Ahnassay
Collaborator, Chief of Dene 'Tha First Nation in northeastern Alberta, Canada. James is Dene - Beaver and is located in Chateh, AB, Canada.
Sharlene Alook
Collaborator, Knowledge Holder, Bigstone Cree First Nation. Sharlene speaks Nêhiyawêwin and is located in Edmonton, AB, Canada.
Leon Andrew
Collaborator, Advisory Circle member, and Shúhtaot'ı̨nę elder with the Tulı́t’a Dene Band. Leon lives with his wife, Ethel Blondin-Andrew in Norman Wells, NWT, Canada.
Abdourahmane Ag Moctar
Collaborator, Independent Consultant located in Nouakchott, Mauritainia.
Jim Badger
Collaborator, Chief of Sucker Creek First Nation. Jim speaks both Nêhiyawêwin and English, and is located in Slave Lake, AB, Canada.
Kukik Baker
Collaborator, Executive Director, Aqqiumavvik Society. Kukik is located in Arviat, Nunavut, Canada.
Ethel Blondin-Andrew
Collaborator, Advisory Circle member, former MP (Canada’s first Indigenous woman member of Parliament).
Clint Carroll
Co-Applicant, citizen of the Cherokee Nation. He is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder where he is an Association Professor of Ethics Studies.
María Eugenia Choque Quispe
Co-Applicant, Ayamara woman from La Paz, Bolivia.
Val Courtois
Co-Applicant, Director, Guardians Program at the Indigenous Leadership Initiative. "My preferred identity is: Valérie, Peikuakamilnuishkueu, Nitasssinan. I’m a member of the Ilnu (not a typo; my part of my Nation uses ‘l’ instead of the ’n’ sound) community of Mashteuiatsh, and our homelands are called Nitassinan. My preferred pronouns are she/her. "
Treena Delormier
Co-Applicant, Associate Professor at McGill University, and member of the Mohawk Nation of Kanien’kehà:ka. Treena lives in St. Anne-de-Bellevue, QC, Canada.
Val Napoleon
Co-Applicant, Associate Professor in Aboriginal Justice and Governance at the University of Victoria. "I identify as Cree from Saulteaux in northeast BC. We moved there over a period of several hundred years onto the lands of the Dunneza peoples so as with many Indigenous peoples in Canada, our history is complicated. I am also an adopted member of the Gitxsan.
Liane Ngamane
Co-Applicant of Ngāti Tamaterā, Ngāti Maru, Ngāti Whanaunga and Ngāti Paoa descent, Liane is an elected trustee of the Ngāti Tamaterā Treaty Settlement Trust and works with iwi in the Hauraki and Tāmaki regions of Aotearoa (New Zealand).
Jesse Popp
Co-Applicant and Chair in Indigenous Environmental Science, University of Guelph.
Tero Mustonen
Co-Applicant, President of the Snowchange Cooperative and head of the village of Selkie, North Karelia, Finland.
Kim TallBear-Dauphine
Co-Applicant, Dakota, and a citizen of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate.
Kaisu Mustonen
Collaborator, Head of Biodiversity at Snowchange Cooperative. Kaisu lives in Selkie, Finland where she specializes in gendered biodiversity knowledge.
Andrea Reid
Co-Applicant, Assistant Professor at the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia.
Carwyn Jones
Co-Applicant, Professor in the Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington. "My iwi (nation/people) is Ngāti Kahungunu ki Te Wairoa. My mountain is Whakapunake and my river is Te Wairoa Hōpūpū-Hongenengene-Mātangirau."
JC Catholique
Collaborator, Wellness & Spiritual Healer/Elder, Lutsel K’e Dene First Nation.
Angela Coxon
Collaborator, Director of Wildlife Management, Eeyou Marine Region Wildlife Board.
Reg Crowshoe
Collaborator, Elder and Spiritual Leader, Piikani First Nation. Reg is Blackfoot and lives in Calgary, AB, Canada.
Dida Badi Khammadine
Collaborator, Professor at the University of Bayreuth. Badi is Kel Tamasheq and speaks French, Tamashek, and English.
Nicholas Barla
Collaborator, Tribal Coordination Front, India and Indigenous Peoples Forum Odisha (IPFO).
Ian Davison-Hunt
Co-Applicant, Professor, Natural Resources Institute, and cross-appointed to the Department of City Planning, University of Manitoba.
Chris Furgal
Co-applicant, Professor in the Chanie Wenjack School of Indigenous Studies at Trent University. Chris is based in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.
Shari Fox
Collaborator, Research Scientist, & Geographer based at the National Snow and Ice Data Centre.
Gregor Gilbert
Collaborator from Makivik Corporation
Florence Glanfield
Collaborator, Vice-Provost (Indigenous Programming and Research) in the Faculty of Education, University of Alberta.
Ellen Goddard
Co-Applicant, Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sci - Resource Economics & Environmental Sociology, University of Alberta.
Sherilee Harper
Co-Applicant, Professor at the University of Alberta. Co-lead the Indigenous Health Adaptation to Climate Change (IHACC) Program.
Joella Hogan
Collaborator, member of Na-Cho Nyak Dun First Nation, and entrepreneur. Joella lives in Mayo, Yukon, Canada.
Bipin Jojo
Co-Applicant, Professor at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences at the Centre for Social Justice and Governance and School of Social Work. He lives in Mumbai. "To save the Mother Earth, We have to save the biodiversity; to save the biodiversity, we have to save the indigenous peoples. Let us save the wellbeing of indigenous peoples by saving the biodiversity."
Susan Kutz
Co-Applicant, Professor, University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Calgary, Alberta. Dr. Kutz is also an Adjunct Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary. Research Associate, Arctic Institute of North America, University of Calgary, Research Associate, Canadian Circumpolar Institute, University of Calgary.
Trevor Lantz
Co-Applicant, Professor, Department of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria.
Danika Littlechild
Co-PI, Associate Professor at Carleton University, and nêhiyaw-iskwêw, Neyaskweyahk.
Willie Littlechild
Collaborator, Indigenous Leader in the Ermineskin Cree Nation.
Mike Low
Collaborator, Program Coordinator for AAROM (Aboriginal Aquatic Resources & Ocean Management) for the Decho First Nations.
Sanna Malinen
Collaborator, Associate Professor in the Departement of Management, Marketing and Entrepreneurship, University of Canterbury.
Hugo Melgar-Quiñonez
Co-Applicant, Academic Scholar at McGill Institute for Global Food Security.
Deb McKenzie
Co-Applicant, Professor, Deparment of Biological Sciences in the Faculty of Science, University of Alberta.
Ruth Meinzen-Dick
Co-Applicant, Senior Research Follow at the International Food Policy Research Institute. Ruth speaks English, German, and Tamil. She is based out of Washington, DC.
Prateep Nayak
Co-Applicant, Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo School of Environment, Enterprise and Development.
Wanda Pascal
Collaborator, Chief of Teetl’it Gwich’in. Wanda lives in Fort McPherson, NWT, Canada.
Kara Pictou
Collaborator, Community Based Monitoring Coordinator for The Confederacy of Mainland Mi'kmaq.
Tane Davis
Collaborator, Knowledge Holder and Coordinator for the Conservation Program, Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu. Tane is Maori and lives in Invercargill, New Zealand.
Nigel Scott
Co-Applicant, Primary Advisory for Te Ao Turoa, the environmental unit of the Ngāi Tahu Tribal Council. Nigel is based in Kā Pākihi Whakatekateka o Waitaha – the Canterbury Plains of Aotearoa (New Zealand).
Renato Silvano
Co-Applicant, Associate Professor at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. He speaks English and Portuguese.
Cristiana Simão Seixas
Co-Applicant, Researcher at State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Center for Environmental Studies and Research.
Deb Simmons
Co-applicant, Executive Director of the Sahtu Renewable Resources Board (SRRB). Deb is based in Tulita, NWT, Canada.
Chris Southcott
Co-Applicant, Professor at Lakehead University Department of Sociology. Principal Investigator for an international project, Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arctic (ReSDA).
Prasert Trakansuphakon
Co-Applicant, Representative of the Indigenous Knowledge and Peoples Foundation (IKAP). Prasert is Karen, from northern Thailand, and is based in Chiang Mai.
Amaranta Gómez
Collaborator and Zapotecan Muxhe, Amaranta is affiliated with the University of Veracruzana and the Secretariado Internacional e Pueblos Indígenas frente al VIH(SIDA). Amaranta is based in Xalapa, Mexico.
Phil Lyver
Collaborator, Kairangahau Maori RPAL at the Manaaki Whenua: Landcare Research, focusing on Wildlife Ecology & Management.
Sonia Weche
Co-Applicant, Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa in Geography, Environment, and Geographics.
Noreen Willows
Co-Applicant, Professor Emeritus at the University of Alberta. Currently, she is working with First Nations communities in Alberta, British Columbia and Quebec to help address their food security and nutrition concerns
Sherry Pictou
Co-PI, Associate Professor, and Mi'kmaw woman.
Frank Pokiak
Collaborator, Inuvialuit hunter, and Chair of the Inuvialuit Game Council. Frank lives in Tuktoyaktuk, NWT, Canada.
John B Zoe
Collaborator, Tłı̨chǫ member, and Chairperson of Dedats’eetsaa: the Tłı̨chǫ Research & Training Institute.
Geoffrey Roth
Collaborator, North American Member/Advisor for the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues/Indian Health for Urban Indian Programs.
Melody Lepine
Collaborator, member of Mikisew Cree First Nation (MCFN) and Director of MCFN Government and Industry Relations. Melody is a member of the Government of Alberta's Indigenous Wisdom Advisory Panel (IWAP) and is based in Fort McMurray, Alberta.
Mariam Wallet Aboubakrine
Co-PI, Tuareg woman and medical doctor. Mariam is the former President of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. She remains actively engaged in global Indigenous issues.
Lana Lowe
Collaborator, member of the Advisory Circle. Lana is from Fort Nelson First Nation in Fort Nelson, BC, Canada.
Teresa Zapeta
Collaborator, Maya K'iche person representing the International Indigenous Women's Forum (FIMI-IIWF). Teresa is based in Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa, Guatamala.
Irja Seurujarvi
Collaborator, Associate Professor in the Indigenous Studies Department, University of Helsinki.
Tashka Yawanawà
Collaborator from the Yawanawà People of the Acre (Amazon) in Brazil.
Vice Chief Joseph Tsannie
Collaborator, Advisory Circle member and Vice Chief of the Prince Albert Grand Council. Joe is based in Hatchet Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Michelle Hogue
Collaborator, Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the First Nations Transition Program at Lethbridge University. Michelle identifies as Métis and her work focuses on engaging Aboriginal students in the sciences. She regularly collaborates with partners in Australia and New Zealand.
Laura Michel
Collaborator, member of the Lutsel K’e Dene First Nation, Laura is a young Dene person living in Lutsel K'e, NWT, Canada.
Jess Kolopenuk
Collaborator, Associate Professor at University of Alberta.
Ira Provost
Collaborator, member of the Piikani First Nation in Southern Alberta. Ira is the Manager of Consultation and Piikani Traditional Knowledge Services.
Cleo Reece
Collaborator, Knowledge Holder/Elder from the Fort McMurray First Nation. Cleo is Cree and Métis and is based in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada.
Grand Chief Arthur Noskey
Collaborator, member and former Chief of Loon River First Nation and Grand Chief of Treaty 8 First Nations of Alberta.
Nutdanai (Jump) Trakansuphakon
Collaborator, Representative of the Indigenous Knowledge and Peoples Foundation (IKAP). Nutdanai is part of the Karen people, speaks Thai, and is located in Chiang Mai.
Wasiq Silan (I-An GAO 高怡安)
Collaborator, PhD candidate at the University of Helsinki focusing on social policy and Indigenous peoples including her own Tayal people of Taiwan.
Madghis Buzakhar
Co-Applicant, member of the Tira Association. Madghis is Nafusa Amazigh, speaks both French and English, and is located in Tripoli, Libya.
Art Napoleon
Collaborator, member of the Saulteau First Nation in Moberly Lake, BC.
Tony Charles
Co-Applicant, Professor at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Fikret Berkes
Co-Applicant, Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba.
Murray Humphries
Co-PI, Professor at McGill University. Murray is the Director at the Center for Indigenous Peoples’ Nutrition and Environment (CINE), and he is located in Montreal, Canada.
Brenda Parlee
Co-PI, Professor at the University of Alberta. Brenda leads a range of collaborative and community-based research projects related to social-ecological change, wildlife health, sustainable resource development, biodiversity conservation and cooperative management (co-management) of lands. Brenda is currently based in Okotoks, Alberta, Canada.
Ashlee Cunsolo
Co-Applicant, Founding Dean, School of Arctic & Subarctic Studies and Director of the Labrador Institute of Memorial University. Ashlee is also a documentary filmmaker based in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Newfoundland, Canada.
Pauliina Feodoroff
Collaborator, Local Coordinator - Skolt Sámi for the Snowchange Collective. Pauliina is a theatre director, artist and nature guardian from Keväjäu´rr, in the Finnish part of Sápmi, and Suõ´nnjel, in the Russian part of Sápmi.
Kevin Ahkimnachie
Co-applicant, member of Dene Tha' First Nation in northwestern Alberta, Canada and Director of Livelihoods at Treaty 8 First Nations of Alberta. Kevin speaks Tsaat'ine and lives in both Chateh and Edmonton, AB, Canada.
Alexander & Luba Arbachakov
Collaborators, members of the Shor nation. Alexander and Luba are located in Tashtagol, Kemerovo Oblast.
"Мы шорцы с Мрассу, это в Южной Сибири." (We are Shors from Mrassu, this is in South Siberia.)
Alejandro Argumedo
Co-Applicant, Researcher and led of Association ANDES. He is Quechua and is located in in Lima, Peru.
James Ahnassay
Collaborator, Chief of Dene 'Tha First Nation in northeastern Alberta, Canada. James is Dene - Beaver and is located in Chateh, AB, Canada.
Sharlene Alook
Collaborator, Knowledge Holder, Bigstone Cree First Nation. Sharlene speaks Nêhiyawêwin and is located in Edmonton, AB, Canada.
Leon Andrew
Collaborator, Advisory Circle member, and Shúhtaot'ı̨nę elder with the Tulı́t’a Dene Band. Leon lives with his wife, Ethel Blondin-Andrew in Norman Wells, NWT, Canada.
Abdourahmane Ag Moctar
Collaborator, Independent Consultant located in Nouakchott, Mauritainia.
Jim Badger
Collaborator, Chief of Sucker Creek First Nation. Jim speaks both Nêhiyawêwin and English, and is located in Slave Lake, AB, Canada.
Kukik Baker
Collaborator, Executive Director, Aqqiumavvik Society. Kukik is located in Arviat, Nunavut, Canada.
Ethel Blondin-Andrew
Collaborator, Advisory Circle member, former MP (Canada’s first Indigenous woman member of Parliament).
Ethel is Shútao’tine (Mountain Dene) from Tulit’a, NWT and lives in Norman Wells, NWT with her husband, Leon.
Clint Carroll
Co-Applicant, citizen of the Cherokee Nation. He is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder where he is an Association Professor of Ethics Studies.
María Eugenia Choque Quispe
Co-Applicant, Ayamara woman from La Paz, Bolivia.
Val Courtois
Co-Applicant, Director, Guardians Program at the Indigenous Leadership Initiative. "My preferred identity is: Valérie, Peikuakamilnuishkueu, Nitasssinan. I’m a member of the Ilnu (not a typo; my part of my Nation uses ‘l’ instead of the ’n’ sound) community of Mashteuiatsh, and our homelands are called Nitassinan. My preferred pronouns are she/her. "
Treena Delormier
Co-Applicant, Associate Professor at McGill University, and member of the Mohawk Nation of Kanien’kehà:ka. Treena lives in St. Anne-de-Bellevue, QC, Canada.
Val Napoleon
Co-Applicant, Associate Professor in Aboriginal Justice and Governance at the University of Victoria. "I identify as Cree from Saulteaux in northeast BC. We moved there over a period of several hundred years onto the lands of the Dunneza peoples so as with many Indigenous peoples in Canada, our history is complicated. I am also an adopted member of the Gitxsan.
"My Gitxsan name is Gyooksgan, Wilps Luuxhon, Pteek Ganada, Gitanyow. I am happy to be called Val Napoleon.
I use the term Indigenous as it is more inclusive than First Nations, Metis, or Inuit. I know there remains many questions about names."
Liane Ngamane
Co-Applicant of Ngāti Tamaterā, Ngāti Maru, Ngāti Whanaunga and Ngāti Paoa descent, Liane is an elected trustee of the Ngāti Tamaterā Treaty Settlement Trust and works with iwi in the Hauraki and Tāmaki regions of Aotearoa (New Zealand).
Jesse Popp
Co-Applicant and Chair in Indigenous Environmental Science, University of Guelph.
"Jesse Popp is a member of Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory. She is Anishinaabe on her mother's side, and of mixed European decent on her father's side. She resides in the Robinson-Huron Treaty Area."
Tero Mustonen
Co-Applicant, President of the Snowchange Cooperative and head of the village of Selkie, North Karelia, Finland.
Kim TallBear-Dauphine
Co-Applicant, Dakota, and a citizen of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate.
Kaisu Mustonen
Collaborator, Head of Biodiversity at Snowchange Cooperative. Kaisu lives in Selkie, Finland where she specializes in gendered biodiversity knowledge.
Andrea Reid
Co-Applicant, Assistant Professor at the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia.
"Andrea Reid is a proud citizen of the Nisga’a Nation. She is a descendant of the Gisk'aast (Killerwhale) tribe and from a family line (Stewart) belonging to the Nisga’a Village of Gingolx. The gift linked with the Gisk'aast is the "breathing in" or "giving life" to knowledge. Andrea also has Irish ancestry and was raised outside of Nisga’a culture and language, on Prince Edward Island in Mi’kma’ki, but she has reconnected with Nisga’a community and found her way through her work on salmon and linked knowledge systems."
Carwyn Jones
Co-Applicant, Professor in the Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington. "My iwi (nation/people) is Ngāti Kahungunu ki Te Wairoa. My mountain is Whakapunake and my river is Te Wairoa Hōpūpū-Hongenengene-Mātangirau."
JC Catholique
Collaborator, Wellness & Spiritual Healer/Elder, Lutsel K’e Dene First Nation.
JC is Dene, and he speaks both Denesuline and English.
Angela Coxon
Collaborator, Director of Wildlife Management, Eeyou Marine Region Wildlife Board.
Angela is Cree of the Eeyou Istchee and is located in Waskaganish, QC, Canada.
Reg Crowshoe
Collaborator, Elder and Spiritual Leader, Piikani First Nation. Reg is Blackfoot and lives in Calgary, AB, Canada.
Dida Badi Khammadine
Collaborator, Professor at the University of Bayreuth. Badi is Kel Tamasheq and speaks French, Tamashek, and English.
Nicholas Barla
Collaborator, Tribal Coordination Front, India and Indigenous Peoples Forum Odisha (IPFO).
Ian Davison-Hunt
Co-Applicant, Professor, Natural Resources Institute, and cross-appointed to the Department of City Planning, University of Manitoba.
Chris Furgal
Co-applicant, Professor in the Chanie Wenjack School of Indigenous Studies at Trent University. Chris is based in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.
https://www.trentu.ca/indigenous/faculty-research/full-time/chris-furgal
Shari Fox
Collaborator, Research Scientist, & Geographer based at the National Snow and Ice Data Centre.
Shari is based in the Inuit community of Kangiqtugaapik (Clyde River) in Nunavut, Canada.
Gregor Gilbert
Collaborator from Makivik Corporation
"The Inuit of Nunavik refer to themselves as Nunavimmiut, with the place name being Nunavik."
Florence Glanfield
Collaborator, Vice-Provost (Indigenous Programming and Research) in the Faculty of Education, University of Alberta.
"I identify as Métis born and raised in the northeastern part of this place we now call Alberta."
Ellen Goddard
Co-Applicant, Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sci - Resource Economics & Environmental Sociology, University of Alberta.
Sherilee Harper
Co-Applicant, Professor at the University of Alberta. Co-lead the Indigenous Health Adaptation to Climate Change (IHACC) Program.
Joella Hogan
Collaborator, member of Na-Cho Nyak Dun First Nation, and entrepreneur. Joella lives in Mayo, Yukon, Canada.
Bipin Jojo
Co-Applicant, Professor at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences at the Centre for Social Justice and Governance and School of Social Work. He lives in Mumbai. "To save the Mother Earth, We have to save the biodiversity; to save the biodiversity, we have to save the indigenous peoples. Let us save the wellbeing of indigenous peoples by saving the biodiversity."
Susan Kutz
Co-Applicant, Professor, University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Calgary, Alberta. Dr. Kutz is also an Adjunct Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary. Research Associate, Arctic Institute of North America, University of Calgary, Research Associate, Canadian Circumpolar Institute, University of Calgary.
Trevor Lantz
Co-Applicant, Professor, Department of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria.
Danika Littlechild
Co-PI, Associate Professor at Carleton University, and nêhiyaw-iskwêw, Neyaskweyahk.
"Danika Billie Littlechild prefers to be identified as ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐤ ᐃᐢᑫᐧᐤ nêhiyaw-iskwêw, Neyaskweyahk, Maskwacis in Treaty No. 6 territory. For Danika, this identity is more reflective of who she is. She is from Ermineskin Cree Nation, but the proper Cree name for where she is from is Neyaskweyahk. The Cree place name for where she is from is Maskwacis and not 'Hobbema' which was the name provided by early settlers to the region. Finally, Danika prefers to attribute her place-based name to the Treaty No. 6 territory and not the province of Alberta, as the Treaty is the basis for all relations with the settler society in Canada."
Willie Littlechild
Collaborator, Indigenous Leader in the Ermineskin Cree Nation.
Willie is Cree, speaks both Nêhiyawêwin and English, and is located in Mascwacis, AB, Canada.
Mike Low
Collaborator, Program Coordinator for AAROM (Aboriginal Aquatic Resources & Ocean Management) for the Decho First Nations.
Mike is Dene and is located in Fort Simpson, NT, Canada.
Sanna Malinen
Collaborator, Associate Professor in the Departement of Management, Marketing and Entrepreneurship, University of Canterbury.
Sanna is Maori and lives in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Hugo Melgar-Quiñonez
Co-Applicant, Academic Scholar at McGill Institute for Global Food Security.
Deb McKenzie
Co-Applicant, Professor, Deparment of Biological Sciences in the Faculty of Science, University of Alberta.
Ruth Meinzen-Dick
Co-Applicant, Senior Research Follow at the International Food Policy Research Institute. Ruth speaks English, German, and Tamil. She is based out of Washington, DC.
Prateep Nayak
Co-Applicant, Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo School of Environment, Enterprise and Development.
Wanda Pascal
Collaborator, Chief of Teetl’it Gwich’in. Wanda lives in Fort McPherson, NWT, Canada.
Kara Pictou
Collaborator, Community Based Monitoring Coordinator for The Confederacy of Mainland Mi'kmaq.
Kara speaks Miꞌkmawiꞌsimk and English, and she is located in Truro, NS, Canada.
Tane Davis
Collaborator, Knowledge Holder and Coordinator for the Conservation Program, Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu. Tane is Maori and lives in Invercargill, New Zealand.
Nigel Scott
Co-Applicant, Primary Advisory for Te Ao Turoa, the environmental unit of the Ngāi Tahu Tribal Council. Nigel is based in Kā Pākihi Whakatekateka o Waitaha – the Canterbury Plains of Aotearoa (New Zealand).
Renato Silvano
Co-Applicant, Associate Professor at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. He speaks English and Portuguese.
Cristiana Simão Seixas
Co-Applicant, Researcher at State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Center for Environmental Studies and Research.
Deb Simmons
Co-applicant, Executive Director of the Sahtu Renewable Resources Board (SRRB). Deb is based in Tulita, NWT, Canada.
Chris Southcott
Co-Applicant, Professor at Lakehead University Department of Sociology. Principal Investigator for an international project, Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arctic (ReSDA).
Prasert Trakansuphakon
Co-Applicant, Representative of the Indigenous Knowledge and Peoples Foundation (IKAP). Prasert is Karen, from northern Thailand, and is based in Chiang Mai.
Amaranta Gómez
Collaborator and Zapotecan Muxhe, Amaranta is affiliated with the University of Veracruzana and the Secretariado Internacional e Pueblos Indígenas frente al VIH(SIDA). Amaranta is based in Xalapa, Mexico.
Phil Lyver
Collaborator, Kairangahau Maori RPAL at the Manaaki Whenua: Landcare Research, focusing on Wildlife Ecology & Management.
Phil is Maori and is located in Lincoln, New Zealand.
Sonia Weche
Co-Applicant, Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa in Geography, Environment, and Geographics.
Noreen Willows
Co-Applicant, Professor Emeritus at the University of Alberta. Currently, she is working with First Nations communities in Alberta, British Columbia and Quebec to help address their food security and nutrition concerns
Sherry Pictou
Co-PI, Associate Professor, and Mi'kmaw woman.
"I identify as both Mi'kmaw and Indigenous. A Mi'kmaw woman from L'sitkuk in Mi'kmaki. But I also identify as Indigenous to encapsulate the diversity of Indigenous peoples in Northern Turtle Island and to support global Indigenous movements and organizations and UNDRIP! So, I am fine with Sherry Pictou, Mi'kmaw/Indigenous"
Frank Pokiak
Collaborator, Inuvialuit hunter, and Chair of the Inuvialuit Game Council. Frank lives in Tuktoyaktuk, NWT, Canada.
John B Zoe
Collaborator, Tłı̨chǫ member, and Chairperson of Dedats’eetsaa: the Tłı̨chǫ Research & Training Institute.
John is Dene and lives in Donda Tili, Behchokǫ̀ Region.
Geoffrey Roth
Collaborator, North American Member/Advisor for the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues/Indian Health for Urban Indian Programs.
Geoffrey is a descendent of the Hunkpapa band of the Lakota Sioux, part of the Standing Rock Tribe.
Melody Lepine
Collaborator, member of Mikisew Cree First Nation (MCFN) and Director of MCFN Government and Industry Relations. Melody is a member of the Government of Alberta's Indigenous Wisdom Advisory Panel (IWAP) and is based in Fort McMurray, Alberta.
Mariam Wallet Aboubakrine
Co-PI, Tuareg woman and medical doctor. Mariam is the former President of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. She remains actively engaged in global Indigenous issues.
Lana Lowe
Collaborator, member of the Advisory Circle. Lana is from Fort Nelson First Nation in Fort Nelson, BC, Canada.
Teresa Zapeta
Collaborator, Maya K'iche person representing the International Indigenous Women's Forum (FIMI-IIWF). Teresa is based in Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa, Guatamala.
"Mi pueblo es Maya K'iche' (pronunciación: Kiché), y mi lengua: K'iche'. Mi comunidad o lugar de nacimiento se llama Xatinap (pronunciación en castellano o español es shatinap), es una aldea del Departamento del Quiché."
Irja Seurujarvi
Collaborator, Associate Professor in the Indigenous Studies Department, University of Helsinki.
"Irja Seurujärvi-Kari, by the Sámi name Sofe-Ànne Irja, born in the core of Sápmi on the Northern border of Finland and Norway. My kinship lives on both sides of the border, and their language is North Sámi. Most of my family have always lived from reindeer herding. Although I have lived outside my home area I have always had close relationships with my people in the Sámi area, not only by acting actively in Indigenous and Sámi politics but in particular through my home language and knowledge learned from my family."
Tashka Yawanawà
Collaborator from the Yawanawà People of the Acre (Amazon) in Brazil.
Vice Chief Joseph Tsannie
Collaborator, Advisory Circle member and Vice Chief of the Prince Albert Grand Council. Joe is based in Hatchet Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Michelle Hogue
Collaborator, Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the First Nations Transition Program at Lethbridge University. Michelle identifies as Métis and her work focuses on engaging Aboriginal students in the sciences. She regularly collaborates with partners in Australia and New Zealand.
Laura Michel
Collaborator, member of the Lutsel K’e Dene First Nation, Laura is a young Dene person living in Lutsel K'e, NWT, Canada.
Jess Kolopenuk
Collaborator, Associate Professor at University of Alberta.
Ira Provost
Collaborator, member of the Piikani First Nation in Southern Alberta. Ira is the Manager of Consultation and Piikani Traditional Knowledge Services.
Cleo Reece
Collaborator, Knowledge Holder/Elder from the Fort McMurray First Nation. Cleo is Cree and Métis and is based in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada.
Grand Chief Arthur Noskey
Collaborator, member and former Chief of Loon River First Nation and Grand Chief of Treaty 8 First Nations of Alberta.
Nutdanai (Jump) Trakansuphakon
Collaborator, Representative of the Indigenous Knowledge and Peoples Foundation (IKAP). Nutdanai is part of the Karen people, speaks Thai, and is located in Chiang Mai.
Wasiq Silan (I-An GAO 高怡安)
Collaborator, PhD candidate at the University of Helsinki focusing on social policy and Indigenous peoples including her own Tayal people of Taiwan.
Madghis Buzakhar
Co-Applicant, member of the Tira Association. Madghis is Nafusa Amazigh, speaks both French and English, and is located in Tripoli, Libya.
Art Napoleon
Collaborator, member of the Saulteau First Nation in Moberly Lake, BC.
"Broadly and in general, Indigenous seems to be what is used in academic and political landscapes at least in Canada. It's not perfect but it's better than Aboriginal. Specifically I am Northern Cree ( nÎhiyaw) and Beaver ( Dunne Zaa) but was taught only Cree not Beaver. This is a long story. I am a living product of intertribal and colonial imperialism and colonialism but working to change this narrative. "
Tony Charles
Co-Applicant, Professor at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Fikret Berkes
Co-Applicant, Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba.
Murray Humphries
Co-PI, Professor at McGill University. Murray is the Director at the Center for Indigenous Peoples’ Nutrition and Environment (CINE), and he is located in Montreal, Canada.
Brenda Parlee
Co-PI, Professor at the University of Alberta. Brenda leads a range of collaborative and community-based research projects related to social-ecological change, wildlife health, sustainable resource development, biodiversity conservation and cooperative management (co-management) of lands. Brenda is currently based in Okotoks, Alberta, Canada.
Ashlee Cunsolo
Co-Applicant, Founding Dean, School of Arctic & Subarctic Studies and Director of the Labrador Institute of Memorial University. Ashlee is also a documentary filmmaker based in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Newfoundland, Canada.
Pauliina Feodoroff
Collaborator, Local Coordinator - Skolt Sámi for the Snowchange Collective. Pauliina is a theatre director, artist and nature guardian from Keväjäu´rr, in the Finnish part of Sápmi, and Suõ´nnjel, in the Russian part of Sápmi.