Title: Blackfoot Ecology
Location: Ballroom A, Students’ Union Building
Description: A presentation of the place-based worldview of the Niitsitapi, and its
implications for climate change

Wednesday, March 24
4:00pm
Ballroom A, Students’ Union Building

Narcisse Blood and Ryan Heavyhead, two distinguished Blackfoot scholars, were recently selected to attend Al Gore’s global warming training seminar in Montreal, based on a similar presentation in the film An Inconvenient Truth. Feeling that the perspective taken in the seminar was imbalanced, Ryan and Narcisse have adapted their own presentation on climate change, taking into account the cultural ways of knowing of the Blackfoot people, or Niitsitapi.

Come and enjoy this free presentation of Indigenous knowledge as it
applies to ecological issues such as climate change. Brought to you by the Lethbridge Public Interest Research Group (LPIRG), the Native American Students Association (NASA), and the Faculty of Education at the University of Lethbridge. Lunch (snacks?) will be provided.

Ryan Heavy Head is director of Kainai studies at Red Crow Community
College, Blackfoot-specific undergraduate program, and a researcher at Red Crow Community College, where he teaches and writes on the Blackfoot approach to science and knowledge.

Narcisse Blood is the former director of Kainai studies, and is currently
a full-time researcher in the department. He is the principal on the
Learning From Place project, part of the Aboriginal Learning Knowledge
Centre, funded by the Canadian Council of Learning, and was an advisor on the SSHRC-funded Itsinikssiistsi project. The college opened in 1995 as the first tribally controlled community college in Canada and was a founding member of the First Nations Adult and Higher Education
Consortium, which provides adult and higher education as defined and
controlled by First Nations people.

Start Time: 16:00
Date: 2010-03-24
End Time: 18:00