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Youth Training in Ethical Knowledge Sharing and Co-production to Advance Northern, Indigenous-led Conservation and Stewardship Program will train a generation of Indigenous youth to design and deliver relevant research projects using Indigenous and community-based research methods, as well as ethical approaches to knowledge sharing between Indigenous and Western ways of knowing. Youth will be trained both as guardians and researchers to develop the skills to understand, work and care for the lands and waters within their traditional territories.
Canadian Mountain Network (CMN) Co‐Research Director, Norma Kassi, was awarded a $500,000 2020 Arctic Inspiration Prize (AIP) for the Program. Funding from AIP, together with support from CMN, will bring the total project budget to 1 million dollars, which will allow for up to 30 youth from the Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunatsiavut to attend 10‐day training camps in 2022 and 2023.
Environment Minister Pauline Frost has praised last week’s U.S. moratorium on oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
“Within hours of his inauguration, U.S. President Joe Biden issued an executive order stopping the Bureau of Land Management’s current oil and gas lease program for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge,” Frost said in a statement last Friday.
“This is an important step towards reversing the former administration’s efforts to open the critical habitat to industrial development and will help maintain the sustainability of the important Porcupine caribou herd.”
The Yukon government continues to work with its partners in Porcupine Caribou management, Frost added.
Posted: Jan 23, 2021 5:00 AM CT | Last Updated: January 23
A file photo of solar panels in Colville Lake, N.W.T. Nihtat Energy Ltd. was recently awarded $800,000 for two solar projects in and around Inuvik. (John Last/CBC)
Less gas, more green.
That is the motto behind the Indigenous Off-Diesel Initiative, a federal program that recently awarded $800,000 toward green energy projects in Inuvik one of the biggest consumers of diesel in the north.
The money was awarded to Grant Sullivan, president of Nihtat Energy Ltd., a Gwich in development corporation.
Sullivan said he is hopeful to put the money to use this summer.
New book documents stories of Gwich in elders
A new book that documents the stories of Gwich’in elders to help bridge the divide between the generations and record a collective history of the Gwich’in people has just been published by the Gwich’in Tribal Council.
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Book is meant to provide collective history of the Gwich’in people and bridge the generational divide
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Posted: Jan 23, 2021 7:00 AM CT | Last Updated: January 23
A page from the book Our Whole Gwich in Way of Life has Changed, which documents Mary Martha (Robert) Firth s story. She was one of 23 Gwich in elders whose stories were captured in the book. (Courtesy of Gwich in Tribal Council)