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species at risk
- MNR wants to know traveling routes, hunting, medicine plants locations in order to document and archive; when industry comes with proposal the MNR can make sure no lands will destroyed (not more turning a blind eye)
- concerns: historic exploitation; mapping ATK and values by communities is better than government doing it (security issues) and the industry should be going directly to the community
- mining companies can go anywhere; traditional lands or municipal back yard
- government is so slow in moving forward to eliminate these abilities
- vested interests delay; expenses of a new Act;
- six nations already catalogued lands so that they can have the upper cut on outsiders
- food access; logging companies clearing blueberry areas
- Slate Island caribou, two wolves crossed via ice and made severe impact on numbers
- sturgeon now on federal protection list of last year; consultation process done after the fact of being enacted/legislated
- eagle feathers; discussions about amendments about ceremonial pieces so that they can be exempted (did this go through?)
- challenging the court is necessary to set things straight; but shouldn't come to that ie: proper consultation would be proactive to avoid these afterthought issues
- fur trade - mass environmental destruction; everything was gone, not just the beaver; clearcutting is the second disaster
ATK (way of life)
- language barrier; different meanings
- western view/outside definition trying to capture something "from the past"
- place-based knowledge
- translation makes it static, not the dynamic way of life that it is
- oral tradition, passed on through generations
- Parks of Ontario want to know the sacred places, medicines, food sources (blueberries, fishing) by seasons
- new Park manuals with Anishnawbe input with regards to traditional areas; documented in archives but not advertised to public as "tourist destination"
- leadership changes; especially in next ten years will be a big adjustment for communities; difficult change; eg: Rankin Inlet, Fisheries and Oceans counting Arctic Char in two tributaries (15 years ago), the youth wanted to do more research to determine numbers & health of fish, but Elders felt otherwise - ie: changing attitudes among generations
- observation; time on the land; stories remembered and told
- knowledge given is knowledge lost
- NOSM spoke to MNR first, Elders after about medicinal plants; honesty lacked
- recognition to Elders knowledge is disregarded
- spiritual and positivism; thoughts to healing; bioprospecting: extracting active ingredient - but that ingredient is in us already
- information must be kept safe; cooperation and networking important; open to listening is the key - researchers must acknowledge the difference in knowledge and education
- competition in western science/capitalism; socialism is the strength Anishnawbe
- "seed keeper movement" in India; patenting and copyrighting of new and "discovered"
- western science (river studies) acting on minimal years of data - nothing compared to the natural cycles that are known to the Anishnawbe (living here since time immemorial) - they can inform that bigger picture; stories still remain and are still passed
- living documents instead of static maps (what is a blueberry patch may be today, may not be tomorrow/10 years from now)
- western science is young knowledge, just like our habitation of it
