Indigenous perspectives on land stewardship: who makes decisions about the future of our territories?

Nicolas Renaud is an artist, filmmaker, and film editor, as well as an associate professor of First Peoples studies at Concordia University. He has been creating installations and making documentary and experimental films since the 1990s, including the film La Nouvelle Rupert (Brave New River), a winner at the Hot Docs festival in Toronto in 2013. Recently, he exhibited a series of installations (2021–2026) inspired by seventeenth-century Huron-Wendat wampum belts and directed several short films, including Florent Vollant – Je rêve en innu (2021) and Holiday Native Land (2023, co-directed with Brian Virostek). He is a member of the Indigenous Futures Research Centre and the Loyola Sustainability Research Centre at Concordia University. Of mixed Québec and Indigenous heritage, he is a member of the Huron-Wendat First Nation of Wendake.