2 May 2017 - 4:30am to 5 May 2017 - 6:00pm
David Strong Building, University of Victoria, B.C.
Organized by 2015 Trudeau fellow and ethnobotanist Nancy Turner, the symposium “Indigenous peoples’ land rights and the roles of ethnoecology and ethnobotany” will take place at the University of Victoria from 2 to 5 May 2017. Participants will discuss new directions for land and resource planning and decision-making in British Columbia, across Canada and beyond.
The symposium will examine the trends and potential for recognizing land-use and occupancy as more than provision of economic opportunities, but rather as reflections of Indigenous peoples’ traditional ecological knowledge, and their fundamental and longstanding connections to the plants and habitats of their homelands. Treaties and treaty negotiations, land and resource use deliberations, traditional management and governance systems, existing policy and legislation, the role of education, and the concepts of social justice, health and well-being, food sovereignty and sustainability, all in the context of peoples’ relationships with plants and places, will be discussed.
Scholars Aaron Mills, Rebeccah Nelems, Zoe Todd and 2003 fellow James Tully will be part of the conference.
