This is a series of videos from a discussion about Indigenous perspectives on the environment as part of Indigenous Sovereignty Week. This event took place at the Ottawa Public Library on October 26th, 2009.
International Conference: Intellectual Property Law and Development -- the Road Ahead; Traditional Knowledge and Access to Knowledge was held at Ono Academic College on Oct. 24 and Oct. 25, 2011.
"Dr Berkes approaches traditional ecological knowledge as a knowledge-practice-belief complex. This complex considers four interrelated levels: local knowledge (species specific); resource management systems (integrating local knowledge with practice); social institutions (rules and codes of behavior); and world view (religion, ethics, and broadly defined belief systems)."
With a renewed focus on environmental education in the Ontario curriculum, teachers are considering which learning experiences will be most effective both in engaging students and in fostering responsible environmental citizenship.
This short documentary was produced for the Déline Renewable Resources Council in collaboration with the elders of Déline, NT. It focuses on the elders' traditional ecological knowledge of the impacts of climate change on Great Bear Lake, Canada.