Nicole Latulippe Guest Lecture

Question 1

What key elements promote meaningful engagement between First Nations and non-First Nations with respect to land use?

Answer 1

• incorporation of consent
• stop utilizing over arching language that erases the history of FN groups
• be respectful
• engage early
• be open and transparent
• act with honour
• listen
• be willing to adapt if you can
• understand the different forms of knowledge..incorporate multiple representatives of a community not just a leader

Question 2

What is the relationship between western and indigenous knowledge systems?

Answer 2

• Ecological: indigenous knowledge complements post-positivist Western Science
• Critical: epistemic colonization renders indigenous knowledge unintelligible
• Relational: distinct knowledge systems can be of mutual benefit, when appropriately shared
• Collaborative: there is potential for Knowledge coproduction

Question 3

How can indigenous knowledge enhance natural resource management?

Answer 3

• Ecological: through adaptive or ecosystem based management frameworks
• Critical: only through structural change/ decolonization
• Relational: through indigenous governance models, including treaties
• Collaborative: through empowered, collaborative, transformative processes at multiple scales

Question 4

Explain how the three sisters represent a collaborative approach to knowledge production.

Answer 4

• corn = scaffolding, provides ethics
• bean = western science tools
• squash: leaves grow at the bottom providing shade, symboling what the right environment we need is for funding who is involved
• • mutually symbiotic relationship