THIS SEMINAR IS CANCELLED!

Contact person: Shirley Thompson, University of Manitoba

Type of event: Digital event ONLY

Safe drinking water needs to be viewed through a two-eyed seeing approach considering the inequity of infrastructure in many Indigenous communities for water, wastewater and other infrastructure along with Indigenous water stewardship. The power, policies, practices and programmes of colonialist governments desecrated water through unsustainable development. Making water safe requires that we consider water to be linked to health and of a sacred nature.

This webinar workshop will consider sustainable ideas from natural law, Indigenous stewardship, Indigenous governance, UNDRIP, sustainable development and possible solutions through technology with nature. Dr. Ballard will discuss the Anishinaabe concept of Inaakonigewin.

This event is relevant for SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation