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title: Braiding Knowledges Canada Newsletter / Infolettre Renouer les savoirs Canada
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Join our Board or Committees; Apply for funding to host a Land-based Learning Camp; New IPCA Innovation Centre video; news, opportunities, events and more!

| View in browser Board of Directors and Research Management Committee Recruitment Want to help shape the future with BKC? We’re recruiting! Join our Board of Directors or one of our Committees and support Indigenous-led knowledge, leadership, and impact. Apply by May 30, 2025. Apply now! Last Call: Proposals for Land-Based Learning Camps   Braiding Knowledges Canada (BKC) invites proposals for youth-focused Land-Based Learning camps blending Indigenous and Western knowledges. These camps offer hands-on outdoor learning with Elders and researchers, fostering skills, culture, and career paths.   Apply by June 2, 2025.   Apply now! Team Growth Through Medicine Wheel Training The BKC team recently joined All My Relations training with Elder Karen MacKenzie. Through Medicine Wheel teachings, we deepened self-awareness, accountability, and team connection—supporting our commitment to cultural learning and growth. Watch the final video from the IPCA Innovation Centre Network! Explore how this BKC Hub is creating Indigenous-led spaces for conservation, governance, and knowledge-sharing — where culture, language, and connection to land and water are central. Watch now! Knowledge Hub Spotlight: Inuit Knowledge Hub Led by the Torngat Secretariat, the Inuit Knowledge Hub supports cultural continuity and intergenerational knowledge sharing. Through the Inuit Knowledge Monitoring Program, it advances Inuit-led stewardship of polar bears, caribou, and moose by braiding Inuit and Western knowledges for sustainable, culturally grounded wildlife management. Learn more New issue: Woodland Resurgence in Mountain Regions Mountain Research and Development Vol 45, No 1 explores woodland resurgence and its benefits for people and nature. Topics include forest restoration in Peru and Nepal, and cultural keystone trees in Morocco, and more! Read more Wildlife Wednesday Webinar: The Lands and Peoples Relationship Model Host: Braiding Wildlife Knowledges Hub, funded by Braiding Knowledges Canada Date: May 21, 2025. 9AM PT / 10AM MT / 12PM ET / 1PM AT Location: Online   2025 ICCE National Conference Host: Indigenous Centre for Cumulative Effects  Dates: May 26-28, 2025 Location: Westin Bayshore Hotel, Vancouver   Canadian Forum for Social Innovation  Host:  Social Innovation Canada and the Canadian Science-Policy Centre Dates: June 2-4, 2025 Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia   Arctic Development Expo 2025 Dates: June 17-19, 2025 Location: Inuvik, Northwest Territories   International Mountain Conference Host: University of Innsbruck Dates: September 14-18, 2025 Location: Innsbruck, Austria   Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival: 50th Anniversary Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity Dates: November 1-9, 2025 Location: Banff, Alberta and online   Canadian Science Policy Centre Conference 2025 Host: Canadian Science Policy Centre Dates: November 19-21, 2025 Location: Ottawa, Ontario   ArcticNet Annual Scientific Meeting 2025 Host: ArcticNet Dates: December 15-18, 2025 Location: Calgary, Alberta Share your newsletter with your colleagues and follow BKC on social media. Subscribe to our newsletter Braiding Knowledges Canada, CW-405, Biological Sciences Building, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E9, Canada Unsubscribe Manage preferences |
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