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McGill University – Federal government announces 17 Canada Research Chairs for McGill

Edmonton Journal – University of Alberta academics involved in $24 million federally funded biodiversity and Indigenous health project

Simon Fraser University – SFU joins Indigenous-led research initiative tackling biodiversity decline across the globe

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

FAO – The Ărramăt Project has joined forces with the Global-Hub on Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems, becoming its latest member

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We at Ărramăt wish you all a Happy Holiday and N

We at Ărramăt wish you all a Happy Holiday and New Year!

We are excited for the upcoming year, the release of our RFP, connecting face-to-face, supporting #IndigenousPeople, and more. We are honoured to work with such an incredible Team of people & grateful for the support we've received in the first stage of our project.

Best wishes to you all!

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“Indigenous Peoples have demonstrated determinat

“Indigenous Peoples have demonstrated determination and resilience to ensure that our rights have been upheld… no longer should any Indigenous language die out and Indigenous languages should all be revitalized and preserved.”

If you missed it this morning, you can watch Ărramăt Co-Principal Investigator Dr. Mariam Wallet Aboubakrine giving her address at the high-level launch of the International Decade on Indigenous Languages at the UN General Assembly in New York.

Please scroll to 2:20:00 to listen: https://media.un.org/en/asset/k16/k16lrj1c4k

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"There is never a time for us to give up on Mother

"There is never a time for us to give up on Mother Earth” -
Ărramăt Co-Principal Investigator Danika Billie Littlechild

We are in a #biodiversitycrisis & #Indigenous-led conservation is critical to our health & well-being.

Thanks to all who joined us at our #COP15 side event today at the McCord Stewart Museum. We are looking forward to continued discussions as the week unfolds!

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We are so excited to bring you our very first COP

We are so excited to bring you our very first COP side event: The Ărramăt Project: One Health through Strengthening Indigenous Health & Well-Being - #COP15 Side Event

We are joined today by our amazing Indigenous Team Members from all over the globe, as well as our co-sponsors: Capital Native Nations, Association Tin Hinane, McGill University, University of Alberta, FAO, PAHO, & CCUNESCO.

We will be sharing more photos after the event! Stay tuned!

Thank you to the McCord Stewart Museum for hosting us!

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Our delegation has arrived at #COP15! We're look

Our delegation has arrived at #COP15!

We're looking forward to the next week of learning & working together to safeguard Mother Earth for the present and future generations.

If you are there, do not hesitate to let us know by sending us a message!

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We're excited to share that President Bill Flanaga

We're excited to share that President Bill Flanagan from the University of Alberta has highlighted the Ărramăt Project at #COP27!

Click the link below to watch the panel discussing university & community leaders and their critical role in the fight against climate change: https://youtu.be/dVy2TAdUZm8

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Join Ărramăt Co-PI Dr. Mariam Wallet Aboubakrine

Join Ărramăt Co-PI Dr. Mariam Wallet Aboubakrine today at #COP27! This event will be live-streamed at the COP27 Food Pavillion: https://cop27foodpavilion.cgiar.org

Indigenous Peoples’ food systems are intimately tied to nature and able to provide food and nutritional security while maintaining biodiversity and supporting climate resilience. They are rooted in their traditional knowledge and customary systems, allowing Indigenous Peoples to ensure the continuity of their existence and well-being, sometimes in the face of major environmental changes. Indigenous Peoples and pastoralists depend on collective rights to their ancestral lands and natural resources and their unique territorial management systems for their livelihoods and food security.

Indigenous Peoples, FAO and the Regen10 are partnering on this session to showcase the knowledge and learning from Indigenous Peoples' regenerative food systems and provide space for a dynamic discussion on opportunities to further strengthen such approaches.

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Today is a day of remembrance and mourning for In

Today is a day of remembrance and mourning for Indigenous Peoples across Canada. We hope that you join us in taking time to reflect, listen, and learn about residential schools and the lasting impact on Indigenous Peoples, their families, and their communities.

What can you do to observe the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation?

1) Read books by Indigenous authors;
2) Review the 94 Truth and Reconciliation calls to action and commit to at least one;
3) Watch online events hosted by the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation;
4) Identify and connect with your local Indigenous serving organizations;
5) Take part in community events that are going on near you.

We hope that you join us in taking time to reflect, listen, and learn about residential schools and the lasting impact on Indigenous Peoples, their families, and their communities.

#nationaldayfortruthandreconciliation

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!

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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 🕊

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