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    • Episode 3.5: How can we confront the environmental challenges associated with Canadian mining?
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Episode 1.8: Indigenous Environmental Knowledge and Politics

Adam October 5, 2020

Larry McDermott (Shabot Obaadjiwan First Nation and ED of Plenty Canada) and Dr. Dan Longboat (Turtle Clan member of the Mohawk Nation and Associate Professor at Trent University) discuss lessons for sustainability inherent in Indigenous knowledges as well as Indigenous interpretations of the Royal Proclamation of 1763 and other early treaties.

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