Lightning Round 1

Schedule

• Day 1
• November 21, 2022

• 4:15pm LIGHTNING ROUND 14:15pm - 5:00pmMapping Metis Genealogies, Erin McGregor The Government of Alberta requires Metis people who want to exercise their Constitutionally protected rights to hunt, fish and trap for food to prove they are “Powley compliant.” Part of this process entails having a family tree that connect the Metis person’s ancestry (pre-1900) to one or more Government-defined areas in which the person wants to exercise their rights. The Metis Settlements General Council undertakes genealogical research on behalf of its members. Transcribing the geographic information from Settlement member family trees onto maps, the MSGC highlights the arbitrary and factually unsound decision making of the Government of Alberta in dictating where Metis people can practice their rights. Using emotions to map Indigenous cartography: The Story of Canoe River, Holly Fleming The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples identifies a duty to protect Traditional Knowledge. Such protections aim to ensure preservation and sustainable management of the environment. Thus, my thesis research seeks to better understand Indigenous land use in the Lac Seul region of NorthWestern Ontario. Specifically, I will address Traditional Knowledge (TK) using geospatial methodologies by exploring the former community of Canoe River's perceptions of the land and depicting their expression of emotion.Whether it be practical, oral or written, TK documents relationships and habits historically developed by Indigenous people with their surrounding ecological systems. By combining TK with geospatial methods, a dynamic perspective of Canoe River can be expressed to comprehend how this area has created a space in which stories combine with geographic localities for the people of Lac Seul First Nation. In current literature, representations of TK remain static entities composed of metadata placed on a map. By limiting land use to a static model, the data cannot explain the complex interplay between people and landscape. Therefore, a dynamic land use and occupancy map of Canoe River can more accurately emphasize the emotional constructs surrounding the land. The study employed transcripts from the Community Based Participatory Research of Dowsley and Oliveira with Lac Seul First Nation and interviews with Knowledge Holders and Elders. Interviews were coded to search for both linguistic markers and phrases emphasizing the current and past use of Canoe River. Four emotions came through upon analysis: Minwendam (Happiness), Wiisagendam (pain), Gidinawendimin (Connectedness) and Ganwiike (Nostalgia). The study used ESRI storymaps© to create a dynamic map that illustrates the complex interactions between environment, the culture, and the sentiment attachment to Canoe River. The final map product represents a two-eyed seeing approach. It presents the Indigenous perspective through the stories told by Elders and Knowledge Holders and the non-Indigenous perspective through the researcher’s interpretation of the stories and map creation. This thesis discusses the process of learning about and employing the two-eyed seeing approach while creating a map for the community. Actua InSTEM: Indigenous People have Always known about STEM, Noreen Demeria Lets not forget we, (Indigenous people) have always been mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually intune with all of our relations. That is far more inclusive than science technology engineering and math would have us believe. We know about STEM and much more. Let's discuss ways to empower understanding and connection to a world that also happen includes STEM.Speakers: Erin McGregor, Holly Fleming, Noreen Demeria