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Dalhousie University – Building a better world with the knowledge of Indigenous Peoples

University of Alberta – Research project aims to curb decline of biodiversity and improve health of Indigenous peoples worldwide

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Join Ărramăt Co-Principal Investigator Dr. Maria

Join Ărramăt Co-Principal Investigator Dr. Mariam Wallet Aboubakrine for her keynote speech at the ACGC Annual Global Conference on September 17, 2022, at 1:00 PM MDT!

Venue: University of Alberta, Telus 134

For millennia, Indigenous Peoples around the world have been leading the way in social innovations that are based on deep knowledge and understanding of the land, environment, and how communities organize and work together. In this keynote, we have the privilege of hearing about Indigenous-led research as a transformative and innovative solution for the health and well-being of all. This discussion will focus on the space Indigenous women, gender-diverse people, youth, and leaders and their partners have carved out to innovate, the barriers they have worked to overcome, and the incredible impact of their contributions to more balanced and healthier communities.

Free Registration Here: https://acgc.ca/resources-publications/training-capacity-building/acgc-annual-conference-2022/

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We're so excited to share a new article in our spe

We're so excited to share a new article in our special issue with FACETS Journal!

"Which fish is this? Fishers know more than 100 fish species in megadiverse tropical rivers"

Written by: Renato A. M. Silvano, Paula E. R. Pereyra, Alpina Begossi, and Gustavo Hallwass.

Ethnobiological studies on folk, common, or popular names that fishers use to identify fish can help improve fisheries monitoring and collaborations between fishers and researchers. This study investigates fishers’ knowledge (recognition, naming, and habitat use) on 115 and 119 fish species, respectively, in the Negro and Tapajos Rivers, two megadiverse rivers in the Brazilian Amazon, and investigates the relationship between such knowledge and fish importance to fisheries, fish abundance, and fish size. We also compared fishers’ perceptions on fisheries and fish abundance with literature data on fish harvests and fish sampling. We interviewed 16 fishers in 16 communities (one fisher per community, 8 communities along each river). These fishers recognized an average of 91 ± 10.4 species in the Negro River and 115 ± 7.2 species in the Tapajos River, but all fishers recognized 114 species in Negro and all species in Tapajos. The fishers’ knowledge of fish species was positively related to fishers’ perceptions on fish abundance, size, and importance to fisheries in the Negro, but only positively related to fish size in the Tapajos. Our results highlight the usefulness of fishers’ knowledge to providing data on use and cultural relevance of fish species in high diversity aquatic ecosystems.

https://www.facetsjournal.com/doi/full/10.1139/facets-2021-0136

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The Ărramăt Project has a new Postdoctoral Fello

The Ărramăt Project has a new Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity. Come work with Dr. Jesse Popp and Dr. Susan Kutz on our Pathway: Healthy Relationships to Wild Species!

Our project aims to strengthen health and well-being through Indigenous-led conservation and sustainable relationship with biodiversity.

Please share among your networks if you know someone who may want to apply!

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Ărramăt Co-PI Dr. Mariam Wallet Aboubakrine deli

Ărramăt Co-PI Dr. Mariam Wallet Aboubakrine delivering the keynote speech on UNDRIP & Indigenous Health at the International Indigenous Working Group on HIV & AIDS Pre-Conference for the 24th International AIDS Conference. We're looking forward to sharing more photos as the conference unfolds!

https://aids2022.org

Photo: Amaranta Gomez

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So exciting to see Ărramăt Co-PIs Dr. Sherry Pic

So exciting to see Ărramăt Co-PIs Dr. Sherry Pictou and Dr. Brenda Parlee representing the project at the IPBES Conference in Bonn, Germany!

Read the highlights here: https://enb.iisd.org/intergovernmental-science-policy-platform-biodiversity-ecosystem-services-ipbes9-5jul2022

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For the first time ever, Ărramăt Co-PIs & Suppor

For the first time ever, Ărramăt Co-PIs & Support Staff are together! We are also joined by Elder Cleo Reece from Fort McMurray First Nation. We have been working entirely online since the beginning of this project, and have never met in person until just last night.

Thank you to #MādahòkìFarm for allowing us to gather in this beautiful space on the un-ceded Algonquin Anishinabe Territory!

From left to right: Murray Humphries, Danika Billie Littlechild, Mariam Wallet Aboubakrine, Elder Cleo Reece, Brenda Parlee, John O'Neil, Sherry Pictou, Abby D'Souza, and Zoé Boirin-Fargues.

Just missing: Nasya Rouse and Hannah Cunningham.

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Today is #NIPD2022 - a day to celebrate and honour

Today is #NIPD2022 - a day to celebrate and honour the Indigenous Peoples who have been stewards of the Earth since time immemorial.

Our project hopes to:

build the capacity of Indigenous organizations to document, share, and use their knowledge about the interconnections between biodiversity conservation and health and well-being

support Community-Based Participatory Research (Indigenous-led research projects) that evidence the health and well-being outcomes of biodiversity conservation

support Indigenous leaders in driving institutional change at local, regional, and global scales to improve health and well-being, and curb the decline of biodiversity

Please take some time today to learn and listen. Visit our website for more details.

Images shared with permission from Jamie Watson and Chief Wanda Pascal.

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Ărramăt's lastest article is up on FACETS - "Lea

Ărramăt's lastest article is up on FACETS - "Learning from Indigenous knowledge holders on the state and future of wild Pacific salmon" written by Andrea J. Reid, Nathan Young, Scott G. Hinch, and Steven J. Cooke.

Click here to read: https://www.facetsjournal.com/doi/10.1139/facets-2021-0089

In response to colonial research paradigms that have subjugated Indigenous Peoples, knowledges, lands, and waters, Indigenous research methodologies have emerged to center Indigenous visions and voices in research practice. Here, we employ such methodologies to improve collective understanding of the state and future of wild Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) and fish–people–place relationships across British Columbia’s three largest salmon-producing rivers: the Fraser, Skeena, and Nass. Through partnerships with 18 communities of “Salmon People” and semi-structured interviews with 48 knowledge holders (i.e., Elders), we learned that, on average, Elders spent more than half of a century actively engaged in salmon fishing and processing. Modern salmon catches are reported to be approximately one-sixth of what they were estimated to be five to seven decades ago, and the top five threats to salmon identified by Elders included (i) aquaculture, (ii) climate change, (iii) contaminants, (iv) industrial development, and (v) infectious diseases. Threat priorities varied regionally, reflecting distinct lived experiences and regional variation in the prevalence and impact of different threats. Elders perceived threats to salmon equally as threats to aquatic health and human well-being, with evidence that the relationships between people and water, and salmon and people, are being profoundly transformed.

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Check out Ărramăt's first #newsletter written by

Check out Ărramăt's first #newsletter written by Co-PIs Dr. Mariam Wallet Aboubakrine and Dr. Sherry Pictou, and graduate students Robin Howse and Zoé BoirinFargues. This newsletter takes a look at our Team's experience at the United Nation's Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues!

Click here to read more: https://arramatproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/ArramatNewsletterMay2022.pdf

You can also view our full list of publications here: https://arramatproject.org/media/publications/

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The second paper in Ărramăt's special issue is o

The second paper in Ărramăt's special issue is out! Written by our partners Wasiq Silan, Chi-Chuan Chen, and Tin-Yu Lai.

This article explores the “wholistic” as a central concept of “the good life” as expressed by the Bnkis, Tayal Indigenous Elders, who participated in the Day Club, Tayal territory of Northern Taiwan. In particular, we analyze the stories of care experienced by the Bnkis from the standpoint of wholistic relationships. The stories were recorded primarily between 2015 and 2018. In this analysis we used a critical qualitative design approach, privileging Tayal epistemology and informed by Tayal hermeneutics. Our results show that the concept of well-being for the Bnkis is closely linked to their relationships with people and with the land and spirituality. Through these relationships, the continuation of Gaga—Tayal law and cosmology—has been adapted organically over time. We argue that Gaga is central to Tayal Elder/Bnkis care and essential to Bnkis’ well-being. We propose that the concept of wholistic relationships embedded in the Tayal law of Gaga is vital in developing an elderly care system that is genuinely culturally relevant in the long run. This research demonstrates how the wholistic concept can improve human health and well-being, and ultimately provides an implication to sustainable development.

Click below to read: #Decolonization of care through a wholistic way of living: Gaga from the #Tayal in #Taiwan!

https://doi.org/10.1139/facets-2021-0087

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The Ărramăt Project and FAO are finally in the s

The Ărramăt Project and FAO are finally in the same room! It was amazing to meet some of our partners face-to-face at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues!

Thank you Zoé Boirin-Fargues for sharing this photo of everyone during the presentations yesterday!

#ArramatProject #IndigenousKnowledge #UNPFOII #Arramat #Biodiversity #IndigenousHealth #IndigenousResearch

This is an exciting week for University of Alberta

This is an exciting week for University of Alberta student Robin Howse as she joins our Co-PIs Dr. Sherry Pictou and Dr. Mariam Wallet Aboubakrine at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues!

They will be there representing the Ărramăt Project, highlighting the importance of #IndigenousKnowledge in addressing #biodiversity loss and nurturing #wellbeing 🕊

#ArramatProject #IndigenousKnowledge #UNPFOII #Arramat #Biodiversity #IndigenousHealth #IndigenousResearch

Ărramăt has arrived at the United Nations Perman

Ărramăt has arrived at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues! We're so excited to be represented by some of our amazing Co-PIs & Partners! We'll be sharing updates throughout the week!

Pictured here: Dr. Sherry Pictou and UAlberta Student Robin Howse!

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Today is International #EarthDay & we are preparin

Today is International #EarthDay & we are preparing for our #Indigenous Co-PIs & Partners to attend the @unitednations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
To lead us on issues of biodiversity, health, & well-being. Our Project respects the inherent dignity & interconnectedness of Peoples & #MotherEarth.

These photos are shared with proper permissions.

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Student engagement is an important component of Ă

Student engagement is an important component of Ărramăt & we have some awesome students supporting our work!

Click here to read today's article from The Gateway (University of Alberta) featuring U of A students: Sharlene Alook, Hannah Cunningham, & Abby D'Souza!

https://thegatewayonline.ca/2022/04/arramat-project-aims-to-strengthen-indigenous-voices-surrounding-biodiversity-the-gateway/

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Thank you to Ărramăt Partner Cristiana Seixas fo

Thank you to Ărramăt Partner Cristiana Seixas for sharing this amazing photo of a Caiçara youth going fishing! This photo is also the cover of her 2020 book: Governance, Conservation and Development in Coastal-Marine Territories in Brazil! (Photo shared with proper permissions)

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Thank you to Ărramăt partner Prasert Trakansupha

Thank you to Ărramăt partner Prasert Trakansuphakon (Pgakenyaw Association for Sustainable Development) for sharing this photo with us. This photo was taken in the Mae Yod Community in Thailand. Haw Wau is an important spice to the ปกาเกอะญอ (Pgakenyau or Karen) People.

Click here to watch Prasert's Webinar: Dynamic of Traditional Agriculture and Biodiversity Management in Pgakenyaw (Karen) community in Northern Thailand - You can also view it on our website one the events page!

https://vimeo.com/508098771/da57d6e4c3

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Today, @sshrc_crsh posted our projects official re

Today, @sshrc_crsh posted our projects official research story about receiving the NFRF Transformation Stream! Click the link in our bio to read!

The Ărramăt Project: “We don’t want to sit at the table …. We want to reconstruct the table”

https://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/nfrf-fnfr/stories-histoires/2022/projet-arramat-project-eng.aspx

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Ărramăt Partner, Chief Wanda Pascal of the Teetl

Ărramăt Partner, Chief Wanda Pascal of the Teetl'it Gwich'in Band Council, is passionate about keeping #TraditionalKnowledge alive - especially about traditional medicines & berry picking! Click here to watch her webinar, 'Our Backyard Medicine Cabinet.'

Webinar: https://vimeo.com/545206085/28d9d7cdc8

"My passion is striving and keeping my traditional knowledge and culture alive. It's very important to my future generations to come."

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Meet #Arramat partner Jamie Watson of the Ko Moeha

Meet #Arramat partner Jamie Watson of the Ko Moehau Ki Tai Project (Aotearoa). Ko Moehau Ki Tai is a Iwi-led collaborative landscape restoration program of action . It will explore how Kaitaiakitanga and Iwi-led restoration interventions can revitalize not only ecosystems but the cultural, social and economic well-being of iwi, hapuu, whaanau and local communities. It develops Indigenous regeneration pathways that create connected and integrated landscape restoration programmes.

Key:

Kaitiakitanga (Indigenous guardianship)

Iwi -Tribe

Hapuu- Sub Tribe

Whaanau- Family

Photo: Jamie Watson #ArramatProject #IndigenousKnowledge #Biodiversity #IndigenousHealth #IndigenousResearch #Aotearoa

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