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  1. "A new feature for CCCR2026 is the inclusion of #FirstNations, #Inuit, and #Métis place-based case stories that document Indigenous science, observations, and perspectives on the implications of climate change (section RS.3, Box RS.1). These case stories provide complementary knowledge to the lines of evidence drawn from Western science that are formally assessed in this report. Chapter 1, section 1.3.5, explains some of the opportunities and challenges encountered during the CCCR2026 assessment process when engaging ethically and equitably with Indigenous experts and Indigenous science."

  2. @wordmark

    Yes photographs are from
    “Australia” but it is monoculture British colonisers term for multicultural 250 distinct language groups and more than 800 dialects across the continent.

    Hereabouts is Kulin #firstnations country
    each region has specific names for local geographic features, waterways, and areas rather than one overarching continental label.

    Suggested alternative flag for when finally a republic independent of British colonisers and King. 👑

  3. “It's been a rapid unwinding in the last two or three years that local people have also noticed. How could you not notice these streams and rivers have, all of a sudden, turned orange?”

    #Indigenous #FirstNations #environment #climatechange #Yukon

    windspeaker.com/news/windspeak

  4. “With our people we just love canoe season. We wait for it to come every year. Everyone talks about it. Everyone knows who the best paddlers are.”

    #Indigenous #FirstNations #sports #television

    windspeaker.com/news/windspeak

  5. “As I made that bannock-making kit, it was the easiest thing that I could have done in that time. And it made me just feel so happy that I could make something without having to think so hard.”

    #Indigenous #FirstNations #film #TIFF

    windspeaker.com/news/windspeak

  6. I've been busy on the Pow Wow trail these past few weeks. Here is the dramatic closing of the 2026 Matachewan FN Pow Wow with five of the participating drum groups performing one last song to close the event.

    #powwow #firstnations #nishnawbe #matachewanfirstnation #indigenous

    vimeo.com/1222656316

  7. “When we hold the #wampum up, we hold it vertically. We don't hold it horizontally… they're equal relationships. If you hold it horizontally, you see one row higher than the other.”

    #Indigenous #FirstNations #books #treaty #Canada

    windspeaker.com/news/windspeak

  8. Even though I posted a kind of cheesy reaction to it, this is an interesting post by @Tod Maffin 🇨🇦.

    As a Dutchman I had never heard of the Tłı̨chǫ Agreement, but I have visited Canada.

    I felt respect for their First Nations, more than what I felt in ...
    View article View summary I felt respect for their First Nations, more than what I felt in the US, and so this was probably an agreement between those always-friendly Canadians and those-who-already-lived-there.

    (Yes, those Canadians really are that friendly, it's not just a myth, they really are.) 😄

    Interesting, and although I said something about not investigating further, I did 😃

    For all the rest of you who also didn't immediately recognize the letters NWT: that's North West Territories.

    Not sure if "giving power" should be "restoring power" though, Tod 😇

    #Canada #NWT #FirstNations

    RE: https://hci.social/@tod/117157382295927442
  9. Canada 🇨🇦 won't disclose cost of fighting First Nations in court on water, housing

    cbc.ca/news/indigenous/canada-
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    Le Canada 🇨🇦 refuse de divulguer le coût d’aller en Cour contre les Premières Nations au sujet de l’eau et du logement

    // Article en anglais //

    #Canada #FirstNations #PremièresNations #Housing #Logement #Water #Eau

  10. 150 years ago was signed, at Fort Carlton, Treaty 6 between Canada 🇨🇦 and the First Nations

    toronto.citynews.ca/2026/08/23
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    Il y a 150 ans a été signé, à Fort Carlton, le Traité no. 6 entre le Canada 🇨🇦 et les Premières Nations

    // Article en anglais //

    #Canada #FirstNations #PremièresNations #Treaty6 #Traité6

  11. The nut tree originated 60 million years ago in the rainforest of far north east “New South Wales” and south east “Queensland.”

    Before bloody Colonisation #firstNations east of Australia’s Great Dividing Range ate ‘Kindal Kindal’ aka #Bauple *

    theguardian.com/food/2026/aug/

    (Note: botanist Ferdinand von Mueller named the genus “Macadamia” after Politician John Macadam)

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macadami

    * en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Ba

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butchulla

    #firstNations #Gympie #Macadamia #nuts