[BCFSN] Subject: Fwd: British Columbia Herdshare Association Newsletter

[Lydia Travers]

Hi All,


I thought you might all like to view this TEDx Talk by Interior Salish
woman Jeanette Armstrong whom I have looked up to in my work for several
years. Her thinking has deeply informed the paradigm and priorities I bring
into my work with the Working Group on Indigenous Food Sovereignty and
weaving an Indigenous narrative into the SWBC – FSDP and ISFS.



Click on this link to view the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLOfXsFlb18



Jeannette Armstrong pleads that we must stop looking at sustainability from
only an economic basis and that we must remember that the earth is our
fragile home. An Indigenous author and activist, her published works
include literary titles and academic writing on a wide variety of
Indigenous issues. Awarded the 2003 EcoTrust Buffett Award for Indigenous
Leadership, she is distinguished with Honorary Doctorate's from U of St.
Thomas, U of British Columbia Okanagan and the University of Queens. She
holds the Okanagan College Lifetime Fellow award.

She is the Executive Director of En'owkin Centre, the cultural research and
education facility of the Okanagan Nation as well as being on faculty in
Indigenous Studies at UBC Okanagan. She has a PhD from the University of
Greifswald, Interdisciplinary in Environmental Ethics and Syilx Indigenous
Literatures. She is an Okanagan Syilx culture and language specialist and
traditional knowledge keeper.
She currently serves on Environment Canada's Aboriginal Traditional
Knowledge (ATK) sub-committee of the Committee On the Status of Endangered
Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC).


Dawn Morrison,

Research Associate, Indigenous Community Engagement
Southwest BC Bioregional Food Systems Design and Plan
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Office: 604.599.2569
Email: dawn.morrison at kpu.ca
Website: http://www.kpu.ca/isfs


Indigenous Food Systems Network
C/O 555 East 55th Avenue
Vancouver, B.C, V5X 1N6
Mobile: 778.879.5106
Email: dmo6842 at gmail.com
Website: www.indigenousfoodsystems.org
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