Symposium on Indigenous Land-Based Educational Practices

In partnership with various Indigenous and community-based educational organizations, and land-based environmental initiatives, Concordia University’s Office of Decolonizing and Indigenizing Curriculum and Pedagogy presents the Symposium on Indigenous Land-Based Educational Practices: Perspectives on Climate Action.

Open to all, this day of events brings together Indigenous environmental leaders, Knowledge Keepers, scholars, and educators whose work is grounded in community-led and land-based approaches that are essential to advancing Indigenous-led responses to climate change.

Through shared learning, critical reflection, and collective dialogue, participants will engage with topics and initiatives that are strengthening Indigenous climate solutions, including: Food sovereignty and traditional foodways; Indigenous rights and governance; Language and cultural revitalization; Community self-determination, sustainability, and resilience; Intergenerational knowledge sharing; Protection of lands and waters; Resistance to ongoing colonial incursions; and Education rooted in Indigenous land-based knowledge systems.

This gathering is an opportunity to foster meaningful exchange, deepen understanding, and support action toward just and sustainable futures.

How can you participate? Join us in person or online by registering through the Microsoft Form or watching live on YouTube.

Have questions? Send them to info.4@concordia.ca or melissa.forcione@concordia.ca

See the full schedule below: 

Katsi'tsakwas Ellen Gabriel

Kanien’kehá:ka Nation, Turtle Clan from Kanehsatà:ke Kanien’kehá:ka Homelands and documentarian, visual artist, Indigenous human rights and environmental rights activist 

Rebecca Webster

Enrolled citizen of the Oneida Nation in Wisconsin and the Executive Director of Ukwakhwa (Our Foods)

Eriel Tchekwie Deranger

Dënesųłiné member of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation and President and founder of Indigenous Climate Action

Kristy Snell 

Award-winning multi-platform journalist and associate professor at Concordia University’ Department of Journalism, and member of Standing Buffalo Dakota Nation in Saskatchewan 

Mel Lefebvre 

Two-Spirit (2S) Michif, Nehiyaw, French, and Irish mother and ancestral skin marker (traditional tattoo practitioner), and community worker, artist, writer, and scholar in Concordia University's First Peoples Studies program 

Ella Martindale

Instructor in the Indigenous Land-Based Education Microprogram at Concordia University, community-based researcher and organizer, and Quw’utsun Mustimuhw who grew up on Nisga’a and Tsimshian territories 

Waba Moko / Shannon Chief

Wolf Clan from the Anishnabe-Algonquin Nation, Knowledge Keeper, and former coordinator for the Anishnabe Moose Studies and Interim Managing Director for Tinakiwin

Kahérakwas Donna Goodleaf

Turtle Clan Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) Nation, Director of the Office of Decolonizing and Indigenizing Curriculum and Pedagogy at Concordia University

Organized by Office of Decolonizing and Indigenizing Curriculum and Pedagogy

In partnership with Indigenous Climate Action, SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation, 4th Space, and First Nations Regional Adult Education Centre, Kahnawake. 

Funded by Chamandy Foundation and Indigenous Climate Action.