2024 Session List

Settee  will describe some of the large challenges facing humanity and the natural world today and why there is an urgency particularly by knowledge creators and higher learning to view our work in solving the challenges as critical, creative and life transforming. Indigenous communities are particularly impacted not just in Canada but throughout the globe by “development” largely for outside interests impacting local land based and Indigenous economies. The message of the keynote is to take positive actions that educate, involve citizen participation, look at shifting economies and resources that are gentler, diverse, community led, critically examine power relations and are respectful of the natural world. Dr. Settee invites participants to think of the well-being of the next seven generations and approaches that include Indigenous values of wichitowin(doing something for the greater good), wakotawin(we are all related).