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- [newsletter example](https://cicada.world/en/home/news/newsletter-example/): Newsletter CICADA Newsletter Issue 13 – Fall 2025 Issue 12 – Spring 2025 Issue 11 – Fall 2024 Issue 10 – Fall 2023 Issue 9 – Spring 2023 Issue 8 – Fall 2022 Issue 7 – Spring 2022 Issue 6 – Fall 2021 Issue 5 – Spring 2021 Issue 4 – Fall 2020 Issue 3 – Spring 2020 Issue 2 – Fall 2019 Issue 1 – Spring 2019 CICADA members, please send us your news to share in future newsletters with the wider CICADA community. Download Issue 13 – Fall 2025 Issue 12 – Spring 2025 Issue 11 – Fall […]
- [Meeting in Colombia 2018](https://cicada.world/en/home/events/meeting-in-colombia-2018/): Meeting in Colombia 2018 Regional Meeting of Indigenous Peoples of Latin America, October 21-27 2018 Agenda of the reunion in Spanish | Sunday 21 | Monday 22 | Tuesday 23 | Wednesday 24 | Thursday 25 | Friday 26 List of participants in Spanish This meeting was held in close collaboration with the ICCA Consortium in Latin America in the Casa de Encuentros de La Salle in Fusagasugá, Cundinamarca, Colombia. The inauguration of the event on October 21st coincided with the popular referendum on mining in Fusagasugá, which culminated with a strong «No» to the question the question «Do you […]
- [Guest Speakers](https://cicada.world/en/home/events/guest-speakers/): Guest Speakers In addition to hosting annual conferences or regional meetings, CICADA sponsors periodic guest speakers who address the research themes and preoccupations of the centre. Some of these speaking events are featured below. Eli Enns, April 23, 2018 Eli Enns, Co-Chair of the Indigenous Circle of Experts (ICE) for Canada’s biodiversity conservation Target 1, delivers the talk: «Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCC) in Canada: A bold pathway for biodiversity promotion, reconciliation and building a conservation-based economy.» In this presentation, Eli shares his observations and insights into the Pathway to Canada Target 1 (a plan to meet Canada’s biodiversity […]
- [stevens-keynote](https://cicada.world/en/home/events/2015-conference/stevens-keynote/): 2015 CONFERENCE Keynote Address by Stan Stevens (University of Massachusetts) CICADA Conference, October 23, 2015 “Re-thinking Protected Areas: Opportunities for Indigenous Peoples and Supportive Research, Advocacy, and Activism” Over the past twenty years new international conservation policies have been adopted and promoted that repudiate the principles of exclusionary, “protection paradigm” protected areas — fortress conservation — and move far beyond the community-based natural resource management and integrated conservation and development projects of the 1980s and 1990s. Implementing new standards of rights-based conservation and the governance of protected areas by and with Indigenous peoples arguably will require reform in the governance […]
- [2015 CONFERENCE](https://cicada.world/en/home/events/2015-conference/): 2015 CONFERENCE CICADA Conference October 23-27, 2015 Le Baluchon Eco-Resort, Mauricie Region, Quebec Friday | Saturday | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday The October 2015 CICADA conference was our first full gathering of the centre’s researchers and indigenous partner representatives. It was held at Le Baluchon, an eco-resort situated on the traditional indigenous territory of the Atikamekw First Nation, just south of the Parc national de la Mauricie. The conference offered simultaneous translation in English, French and Spanish. Friday, October 23 6:00 PM – Opening Remarks Colin Scott, Director, CICADA Welcome address from Constant Awashish, Grand Chief of the Atikamekw […]
- [Protected Areas Development and Environmental Stewardship, Eeyou Istchee (Crees of northern Quebec)](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/protected-areas-development-and-environmental-stewardship-eeyou-istchee-crees-of-northern-quebec/): Protected Areas Development and Environmental Stewardship, Eeyou Istchee (Crees of northern Quebec) This project has been designed in partnership with the Grand Council of the Crees of Eeyou Istchee to generate a comprehensive “Cree Regional Conservation Strategy” to expand and articulate a Cree vision for a network of terrestrial and marine protected areas throughout their regional territory. This project also aims to identify priority research to support the protection and rehabilitation of habitats important to Cree environments and land-based livelihoods. In this endeavour, we also collaborate with the Waterfowl Habitat Taskforce, a cooperative initiative of Cree coastal communities of Eeyou […]
- [Indigenous Engagements with Mining in Canada and Guatemala: Developing Refined Understandings through Collaboration and Comparison](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/indigenous-engagements-with-mining-in-canada-and-guatemala-developing-refined-understandings-through-collaboration-and-comparison/): Post-Colonial Indigenous Territorialities, Cultural Transmission, and Autonomy: the Atikamekw Nation and the Forest World The Atikamekw have been encouraged to disconnect themselves from their ancestral lands of Nitaskinan, Quebec. They have pursued means of affirming their autonomy at various levels, namely national political, regional technical, and community levels. Through their interactions with Quebec’s administrative delimitations on their land, the Atikamekw’s territories become sites of entanglement between Indigenous and non-Indigenous values, land tenure systems, forms of governance, and conceptions of the forestland and its non-human inhabitants. This project explores the transmission of knowledge and values pertaining to hunting and gathering as […]
- [Living Well in the Torres Strait: Indigenous Engagement with Economic Change and Development](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/living-well-in-the-torres-strait-indigenous-engagement-with-economic-change-and-development/): Living Well in the Torres Strait: Indigenous Engagement with Economic Change and Development This project seeks to understand Indigenous aspirations and collective ‘life projects’ for ‘living well’ in the Torres Strait and how they shape the character of contemporary economic activity by Torres Strait Islanders. Ethnographic research methods are emphasised in order to describe and analyse Islander experiences of significant economic change in the region over the last fifteen years, linked to the resolution of land and sea claims and expanding opportunities for employment in fisheries, public service, arts and tourism. The project illuminates locally salient conceptions of development among […]
- [Life Projects Network](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/life-projects-network/): Life Projects Network The Life Projects Network is a portal to access a variety of ongoing experiments across the Americas that seek to foster the various visions of a good life that emerge from particular places, historical trajectories and conceptions of reality. Life Projects can be distinguished from Development Projects (in both Right and Left-wing versions), that is, visions of a good life grounded in the purported universality of progress. From a developmental perspective, a good life is achieved through the cumulative movement towards some sort of better place located in the (ever receding) future, but that movement needs to […]
- [Indigenous Development Alternatives: Social Justice, Resource Rights, Institutional Hybridity](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/indigenous-development-alternatives-social-justice-resource-rights-institutional-hybridity/): Indigenous Development Alternatives: Social Justice, Resource Rights, Institutional Hybridity Project leader Jon Altman delivers the lecture, “Genocide and Intervention in contemporary indigenous Australia: Raphael Lemkin Down Under”, Dept. of Anthropology, McGill University, Oct. 16, 2017. A brief text version appears in Arena Magazine June/July 2017 (no 148). Indigenous Development: Social Justice, Resource Rights, Institutional Hybridity is a research project that focuses on the intersections between social justice, resource rights and institutional hybridity on land to which indigenous peoples have rights and/or exclusive title in Australia. We reconceptualize notions of development, recognizing variation and hybridity and shifts away from the hegemonic […]
- [Indigenous Confluence: the Role of Indigenous Knowledge in River Restoration and Sustainable Futures](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/indigenous-confluence-the-role-of-indigenous-knowledge-in-river-restoration-and-sustainable-futures/): Indigenous Confluence: The Role of Indigenous Knowledge in River Restoration and Sustainable Futures Over the past two decades, indigenous communities have become more politically empowered and often play a substantial role in negotiating complex co-management agreements. River restoration involves multiple jurisdictions and incites issues of land ownership, and in these cases, possessing a stronger political voice has concomitantly empowered indigenous knowledge and cultural values. In these contexts, indigenous empowerment opens the door for combining western European science and indigenous knowledge-based approaches, which fosters the cross-cultural generation of knowledge and social learning, and provides for new possibilities of sustainability. The Indigenous […]
- [Impacts of Violence in the Latin American Democratic Context: The Case of Chile and Mexico](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/impacts-of-violence-in-the-latin-american-democratic-context-the-case-of-chile-and-mexico/): Impacts of Violence in the Latin American Democratic Context: The Case of Chile and Mexico This project seeks to collect and analyze the motivating political and social justice factors that encourage mobilization justified through the social appropriation of rights. Project leader: Martin Hébert Associated Projects: Politics of Resource Extraction; Life Projects; Customary Tenure; Livelihoods & Food Sovereignty
- [Environmental Impact Assessment and Social Impact of Mining in Eeyou Istchee, Nunavik, and Nunavut](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/environmental-impact-assessment-and-social-impact-of-mining-in-eeyou-istchee-nunavik-and-nunavut/): Environmental Impact Assessment and Social Impact of Mining in Eeyou Istchee, Nunavik, and Nunavut Working in partnership with Makivik Corporation, Nunavut Tunngavik Corporation, the Government of Nunavut, the Grand Council of the Crees, the Cree Board of Health and Social Services, and the Qikiqtani Inuit Association, this project is analyzing environmental impact assessments and the social impacts of mining in Eeyou Istchee, Nunavik, and Nunavut. Project leader: Thierry Rodon Associated Research Themes: Politics of Resource Extraction; Conservation and Protected Areas
- [Enhancing Ecologically Resilient Food Security through Innovative Farming Systems in the Semi-Arid Midlands of Kenya](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/enhancing-ecologically-resilient-food-security-through-innovative-farming-systems-in-the-semi-arid-midlands-of-kenya/): Enhancing Ecologically Resilient Food Security through Innovative Farming Systems in the Semi-Arid Midlands of Kenya To enhance the resilience of the farming systems in the semi-arid Eastern Province of Kenya, we are employing a participatory process to partner with farmers to evaluate agricultural and livestock practices, and to facilitate the adoption of optimal processes. We aim to enhance food and nutrition security by understanding existing systems, adopting appropriate practices, increasing household use of high-value traditional crops, and increasing smallholder farmers’ participation in local and external markets. Through these goals, this project aims to contribute to a better informed policy making […]
- [Documenting Oral History of Development in the Comarca Ngäbé-Buglé, Panama](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/documenting-oral-history-of-development-in-the-comarca-ngabe-bugle-panama/): Documenting Oral History of Development in the Comarca Ngäbé-Buglé, Panama INSTEAD local coordinator Celestino Mariano gestures towards the Cerro Colorado copper deposit. Comarca Ngäbé-Buglé, Panama. Photo: Steven Schnoor This project was suggested by the Congreso General de la Comarca Ngäbé-Buglé, the political governing body of Panama’s largest indigenous group, the Ngäbe. We will be conducting a series of interviews to reconstruct an oral history about developments in the semi-autonomous indigenous comarca region and about the importance of this land. The intention is to preserve historic memory for future generations, to help in the creation of an education program in the […]
- [ngabe-and-bugle](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/ngabe-and-bugle/): Ngäbé and Buglé Ngäbé and Buglé Comarca Ngäbé-Buglé, Panama Research on the Impacts of Mining and Hydroelectric Projects Territorial and Governance Challenges: the Effects of Mining and Hydro-electric Projects (L–R) Silvia Carrera, James Anaya and Celestino Mariano. Comarca Ngäbé-Buglé, July 2013. CICADA is partnering with the Congreso General de la Comarca Ngäbé-Buglé, the political governing body of Panama’s largest indigenous group, the Ngäbé and Buglé, to study the territorial and governance challenges that they face on their Comarca Ngäbé-Buglé territory, and to put forth proposals for mitigating the effects of mining and hydroelectric projects. Nedrini Region, Comarca Ngäbé-Buglé. Source: Daviken […]
- [Dialogues on Sustainability](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/dialogues-on-sustainability/): Dialogues on Sustainability Through this project, we are conducting research and fostering dialogues around the challenges of global environmental change in Latin America, particularly in Panama, and in Quebec and Canada. We seek to enhance national and international political discourse with science-based findings for sustainability discourse. By enriching curriculum options with policy-relevant initiatives, and through establishing a forum on sustainability to foster sustainability science and social dialogues on sustainability in Panama and Quebec, we hope to contribute actively to the pursuit of sustainability. Project Leader: Catherine Potvin Project Co-Researchers: Gordon Hickey, Colin H. Scott, Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert Associated Research Themes: Politics […]
- [Community Atlas of the Urracá District](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/community-atlas-of-the-urraca-district/): Community Atlas of the Urracá District, Panama CICADA co-investigator Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert discusses a draft of the community atlas. Playita, Distrito Urracá. April 2015 Immediately to the east of the Comarca Ngäbé-Buglé in eastern Panama, along the piedmont and coastal areas of the central Atlantic slope, is a zone of Ngäbé and Buglé settlement known locally as the District of Urracá. Claimed as part of the Comarca by indigenous authorities, the region was excluded by the Panamanian government when the boundaries were formalized in 1997. Without the benefit of formal indigenous title, the communities of the region currently face the challenges […]
- [Canadian First Nations’ Ontologies, Environmental Knowledge and Co-Governance in the Face of Large-Scale Extractive Industries](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/canadian-first-nations-ontologies-environmental-knowledge-and-co-governance-in-the-face-of-large-scale-extractive-industries/): Canadian First Nations’ Ontologies, Environmental Knowledge and Co-Governance in the Face of Large-Scale Extractive Industries With the assistance of four doctoral students, we examine the diverse responses of St’at’imc Interior Salish of British Columbia, Bigstone Cree of Alberta, and Inuit of Nunavut to the incursions of mining, petroleum extraction, forestry, and hydro-electric development on their territories. Project leader: Colin H. Scott Associated Research Themes Politics of Resource Extraction; Customary Tenure; Life Projects Program Affiliation: INSTEAD
- [Arctic Domus](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/arctic-domus/): Arctic Domus Arctic Domus – Humans & Animals Across the North , is a research program that explores humans and animals across the North. Arctic Domus is a five-year European Research Council Advanced Grant that is at its mid-term point. Arctic Domus is co-ordinating field research in archaeology, anthropology, environmental history, and social studies of science to elaborate a new model of emplaced human-animal relations evoking recent theoretical concerns of the definition of the person, the attribution of agency, and the importance of ‘built environments’. The project works inductively from empirical observations in multiple field sites across the circumpolar Arctic—from […]
- [E4A](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/e4a/): Economics for the Anthropocene (E4A) Economics for the Anthropocene , or E4A, is a diverse partnership of 25 academic, government, and NGO partners designed to improve how the social sciences and humanities connect to scientific realities about the human-Earth relationship. E4A‘s overarching goal is to articulate, teach and apply a new understanding of human-Earth relationships grounded in and informed by the insights of contemporary science. The E4A partnership aims to create a vibrant international research network, partner with Master and PhD students to train future leaders for the Anthropocene, reconcile disciplines to apply ecological economics, and engage on-the-ground actors to […]
- [I-CAN](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/i-can/): I-CAN I-CAN – The Institutional Canopy of Conservation: Governance and Environmentality in East Africa program is a 7-year, $2.5M (CAD) research initiative funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the International Development Research Centre of Canada as part of their International Partnerships for Sustainable Societies initiative. The project officially started on August 1, 2014 and ended on July 31, 2021. Led by the African Conservation Centre (ACC), Kenya, and McGill University, Canada, this partnership project involves a rich network of collaborators and partners from universities, research institutions and non-governmental organizations in Canada, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, […]
- [BESS](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/bess/): BESS BESS – Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services and Sustainability, is a multidisciplinary and immersive graduate training program focused on the conservation of biodiversity (B), the maintenance of ecosystem services (ES), and the future of sustainability (S). This NSERC-CREATE is based at McGill University and was awarded to Professor Andrew Hendry. Through the cooperation of its diverse group of co-applicants and collaborators from industry, environmental consulting firms, governments, NGOs and universities in Quebec and Latin America, BESS provides a unique immersive program that will prepare the next generation of environmental scientists. BESS graduates will be equipped with the practical skills, real-world experience, […]
- [INSTEAD](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/instead/): Indigenous Stewardship of Environment and Alternative Development In the face of climate change and biodiversity loss, the INSTEAD research program works to protect Indigenous collectivelife projects and recognize their vision for the future. In partnership with Indigenous communities and organizations inQuebec, Canada, and Latin America, the team conducts participatory research to contribute to the development ofterritories of life—areas conserved and protected by Indigenous peoples and local communities—on the American continent. Our program aims to create links between the communities involved in our research activities, while encouraging thetransformation of academic practices in order to drive profound changes in legal, political, and […]
- [Inter-Peoples’ Alliances](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/inter-peoples-alliances/): Inter-Peoples’ Alliances Inter-Peoples’ Alliances Fostering and supporting alliances amongst our Indigenous allies and partners forms a core part of our work at CICADA. This page is currently under construction and will be updated shortly with more details and examples of this ongoing work.
- [50th anniversary of the JBNQA](https://cicada.world/en/home/events/50th-anniversary-of-the-jbnqa/): 50th anniversary of the JBNQA Counter-colonial governance, treaty-making, and territorial rights (2025-2026) This series of events, activities and outputs – leading into the 50th anniversary of the November 11, 1975, signing of the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement – considers the significance of this pivotal development, setting it within a broader discussion and analysis of Indigenous strategies for empowerment and recognition of territorial rights in Quebec, Canada, and internationally. Our events and activities investigate the legacy of the JBNQA for the contemporary political situation of Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Quebec, Canada and beyond. How did the JBNQA shape […]
- [Regions](https://cicada.world/en/home/about/regions/): CICADA’s research projects are organized along seven thematic axes and the four following geographic regions.
- [Collaborators](https://cicada.world/en/home/about/collaborators/): CICADA Collaborators Name Institution Discipline Research Focus Selected Publications Jon Altman Australian National University RegNet: School of Regulation and Global Governance Social justice, economic development, indigenous policy, indigenous participation in global economy, commercial fishing, indigenous customary economy, land rights and title, indigenous land and sea management, aboriginal peoples of Australia. Project:Indigenous Development Altman, Jon, and Francis Markham. 2019. “Basic Income and Cultural Participation for Remote-Living Indigenous Australians.” In Implementing a Basic Income in Australia, Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee, edited by E. Klein, J. Mays and T. Dunlop, 87-109. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. David George Anderson University of Aberdeen Anthropology Ecological […]
- [Co-Investigators](https://cicada.world/en/home/about/coinvestigators/): CICADA Co-Investigators
- [Visual Methodologies](https://cicada.world/en/visual-methodologies/): Visual Methodologies   Photovoice and participatory video media foster both intra-community and inter-partner collaborative identification of issues, visioning of collective futures, and education in development alternatives. They also provide grassroots means of access to public media. CICADA has become a hub for transfer of this expertise to other indigenous partners. Professors, students and community-based researchers and activists collaborate to foster general enhancement of this capacity throughout the partner network.   Given the multidimensional and complex problems and needs that each community and organisation is experiencing, we approach this research in a flexible manner; however, we recognise that there are some […]
- [Community Mapping](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/community-mapping/): Community-Based Mapping Mapping and landscape modeling projects enlist local knowledge of culturally and ecologically significant places for the purposes of community mapping using Geographic Information Software (GIS). These endeavors are a collaborative undertaking with indigenous partners, and the maps and data generated by the projects assist indigenous communities in the enactment of their life projects. This research theme intends to see the integration of transdisciplinary perspectives and methods in landscape modelling with communities’ perspectives on places of significance to engage in “collaborative geomatics”. Through this undertaking, our partners can identify the cumulative impacts of state-sponsored policies and development projects on […]
- [Indigenous law and interlegalities](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/legal-defense-and-recognition/): Indigenous law and interlegalities Legal Defense and Recognition Our research projects investigate the interaction between the diverse legalities of different actors at the local, national, regional and international levels to show how these affect Indigenous law-making and aspirations for autonomy and self-determination to generate findings that can help uphold and strengthen Indigenous law(s), Indigenous rights and Indigenous autonomy and life plans. Indigenous perspectives from CICADA’s 2018 Latin American regional meeting “There is recognition of international conventions in the Constitution, of the law of mother nature…but it’s only on paper, it isn’t upheld, it isn’t implemented. They are decategorizing protected areas […]
- [Livelihoods](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/livelihoods/): Recilient Livelihoods Livelihoods As international development agendas respond to environmental crises and a growing market for access to ‘wild’ places, conservation enclosures in the form of biodiversity reserves, parks, heritage sites, etc., have become contentious in many countries. They often sharpen intra- and inter-communal conflicts and/or hasten the displacement of indigenous groups. Yet, alternatives exist in community-based conservation and protected area approaches, recognizing traditional inhabitants as integral to ecosystems and affording space for customary and alternative livelihoods. We investigate conditions across this spectrum of outcomes for indigenous peoples, and the circumstances enabling community-based approaches.Our research addresses the broad theme of […]
- [Meeting 2016](https://cicada.world/en/home/events/meeting-2016/): CICADA Meeting, August 28 – September 1, 2016 CICADA August 2016 Meeting Hôtel-Musée Premières Nations, Wendake, Quebec August 28 – September 1, 2016 Schedule | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday The August 2016 CICADA meeting took place at the Hôtel-Musée Premières Nations in Wendake (Loretteville), on the northern outskirts of Quebec City. This is a beautiful facility owned and operated by the Huron-Wendat First Nation. The purpose of this important working meeting was twofold: For the CICADA research board of regional representatives, thematic axis leaders, and participating project and program directors to plan our grant application […]
- [Visit of the Resguardo Cañamomo Lomaprieta](https://cicada.world/en/visit-of-the-resguardo-canamomo-lomaprieta/): Visit of the Resguardo Cañamomo Lomaprieta, October 18-20, 2018 Within the framework of the Regional Meeting of Indigenous Peoples in Latin America of CICADA and the TICCA Consortium, a special visit to the community of Portachuelo, located in the Cañamomo Lomaprieta Indigenous Reserve of Riosucio, Caldas, Colombia, was also organized prior to this main event. With the help and support of Héctor Jaime Vinasco, project coordinator of the Cañamomo Lomaprieta Resguardo, the participants of the visit were able to familiarize themselves with the territory, the traditions, and the current problems that the community faces today. Agenda and list of participants […]
- [Colloquium 2017](https://cicada.world/en/home/events/colloquium-2017/): International Colloquium Indigenous Struggles for Territory: Latin America and Quebec October 12-13, 2017 Montreal, QC Location: Room PK 1140 – Pavilion Président-Kennedy, UQAM Program | Facebook event page | Colloquium videos | Sponsors The central objective of the International Colloquium is to make it possible for representatives of indigenous organizations from various countries in Latin America and to present to an academic public, to members of other indigenous groups and to the public in Quebec, their experiences of struggles for territory against large extractive projects: open-pit mining, hydro-electric dams, high-voltage lines and fracking for oil and gas. The relevance of […]
- [Meeting in Ethiopia 2018](https://cicada.world/en/home/events/meeting-in-ethiopia-2018/): Meeting in Ethiopia 2019 CICADA African Regional Conference in Ethiopia November 6 – November 11, 2018 📄 Conference Agenda Tuesday 6 Wednesday 7 Thursday 8 Friday 9 Saturday 10 Sunday 11 The CICADA African Regional Conference in Ethiopia took place from November 6th to the 11th at Liesak Resort on Lake Babogaya Debre Zeyit in Bishoftu, about one hour and a half southeast of Addis Ababa. Incidentally, the meeting took place in the wake of Ethiopia’s presidential election of October 25th, 2018, in which diplomat Sahle-Work Zewde was elected without contest by the upper and lower houses of Parliament as […]
- [Meeting in Montreal 2019](https://cicada.world/en/home/events/meeting-in-montreal-2019/): Meeting in Montreal 2019 CICADA-ICCA Consortium Meeting of Indigenous and Research Partners from Canada, the USA, Australia and New Zealand The 2019 CICADA meeting took place at the Hôtel Gouverneur Place Dupuis (La Capitale Room) in Montreal, Canada, from May 1 to 4. Building on the experience of two previous joint CICADA/ICCA Consortium regional conferences for Latin American and African partners, this conference enhanced synergies in knowledge co-production and policy engagement. The ICCA Consortium also held a Regional Canada/USA Assembly Meeting on May 4th. CICADA-ICCA May 1-4 2019 conference programme (PDF) Photos of the conference Schedule Wednesday, May 1 Thursday, […]
- [Dialogue on biocultural diversity 2019](https://cicada.world/en/home/events/dialogue-on-biocultural-diversity-2019/): Dialogue on biocultural diversity 2019 CICADA co-sponsored the first North American Dialogue on Biocultural Diversity, held in Montreal May 5-8, 2019. The webpage for the event (below) is provided by the Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science. It can also be accessed here. Photos of the conference can be viewed here and videos of the conference can be viewed here. The Dialogue led to the production of the North American Regional Declaration on Biocultural Diversity, which provides recommendations to promote resilient communities and strengthen the links between biological and cultural diversity in the North American region.
- [Methodologies Conference](https://cicada.world/en/home/events/methodologies-conference/): Collaborative Methodologies Conference Event Schedule [dflip id=»1975″][/dflip] [dflip id=»1980″][/dflip][dflip id=»1983″][/dflip]
- [Bininj](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/bininj/): Bininj Bininj Western Arnhem Land, Australia At CICADA’s 2016 Meeting, Dean Yibarbuk of Warddeken Land Management Ltd. spoke about the relationship between the inhabitants of Arnhem Land and the State. He revisited the historically exclusionary measures of the Australian government against aboriginal land management, namely when it came to the right to perform controlled fires in the Warddeken Indigenous Protected Area. He stresses: «We use fire for many reasons: not only using fire for our conservation management but also [as] a healing process for land, for people, for native plants and animals. Fire is a tool that we have used […]
- [Maori](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/maori/): Maori Maori Aotearoa (New Zealand) The Waikato-Tainui is the fourth largest Iwi (tribe) of Maori in New Zealand. They have 64,500 members in 68 marae (communities), affiliated with 33 hapuu (sub-tribes). The Maori have a two-part governance structure. The first tier is a Tribal Parliament, that comprises three members (namely a youth, an adult, and an elder) from all 68 communities; the Tribal Parliament is composed of over 200 people. The second tier is the Executive Board, which makes daily decisions for the tribes. The members of the Executive Board are elected from the Tribal Parliament. Besides these two tiers […]
- [Ogiek](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/ogiek/): Ogiek Ogiek Chepkitale, Kenya Ogiek Chepkitale, Mount Elgon Forest, Western Kenya A number of Ogiek communities from Chepkitale, in the Mount Elgon Forest of Western Kenya, affiliated with CICADA through the Chepkitale Indigenous Development Project (CIDP) and the Forest Peoples Programme (FPP), have come forward at the international level to share their struggles with forced evictions due to national conservation initiatives, as well as the creation of game reserves. Historical Context: Conservation and Displacement From colonial times the communities have faced exclusionary measures guided by modern conservationist thought. In the 1930s, forest reserves were created around Mt. Elgon, resulting in […]
- [Yshir](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/yshir/): Yshir Yshir Paraguay Yshir (Chamacoco) Paraguayan Chaco, Paraguay Andres OzunaYshir Chamacocolanguage activist CICADA academic co-investigator Mario Blaser has been partnering with Yshir communities in Paraguay to identify the areas in which conservation and communities’ visions of the good life overlap and, at times, conflict. Blaser notes the obstacles to Yshir communities’ realization of their livelihoods and life projects in the form of «deforestation from cattle-ranching, and, on the other hand, conservation projects that try to compensate for the loss of forest». Blaser’s research analyses the intersection and protection of such varying ontologies. Political Ontology and Conservation Conflicts Mario BlaserMemorial Universityof […]
- [Monkox](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/monkox/): Monkox Monkox Bolivia The Monkox People of Lomerío, organized in the Central of Indigenous Communities of Lomerío (CICOL), legally own and manage their 256,000-hectare territory in the department of Santa Cruz, in the lowlands of Bolivia. Political Autonomy and Territorial Rights Iokiñe Rodriguez University of East Anglia Mirna Inturias Universidad NUR, Bolivia Since 2016, CICADA members Iokiñe Rodriguez (University of East Anglia, UK) and Mirna Inturias (Universidad NUR, Bolivia), have been working to support the claim for political autonomy of the Monkox People of Lomerío. The main objective of their activities has been to influence both national and local level […]
- [Mapuche](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/mapuche/): Mapuche Mapuche Southcentral Chile and southwestern Argentina Jorge NahuelConfederación Mapuchede Neuquén Mapuche of Chile, along with other indigenous populations, have regularly mobilized in protest, but have received disproportionate attention from the State, which has criminalized their political and social requests. The reason for the Mapuche’s protests is that there exists conflict between them and the Chilean State, which José Aylwin, professor at the Universidad Austral de Chile and CICADA researcher, proposes is due to their insufficient political power. He further argues that this situation stems from the lack of protection of indigenous rights, particularly to their rights to their land […]
- [Sapara](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/sapara/): Sapara Sapara Ecuador Nación Sapara Amazon Forest, Ecuador-Peru Border The Sapara Nation of Ecuador are an Indigenous peoples native to the Amazon Forest along the border of Ecuador and Peru. Early in the 20th century, there were around 200,000 Sapara, occupying over 30,000 km². Today, there are less than 500 Sapara people left and only four, all aged over 70, still speak the Sapara language with some degree of fluency. The Sapara Nation is recognized by UNESCO as an «Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity» because their language and culture are in danger of disappearing. Thanks to their ancestral wisdom, they […]
- [Emberá](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/embera/): Emberá Emberá Catherine Potvin and Juvenal Quiroz, president of the Emberá Congress of Alto Bayano in Panama (Source: Lisa Lutz, http://biology.mcgill.ca/faculty/potvin/). Ethnobotany is an area of research in which the Emberá of Panama are engaged. They have partnered with biologist and CICADA collaborator Catherine Potvin on local Emberá knowledge on plant resources. Potvin explains that combining local knowledge with ethnobotanical research is important for determining conservation priorities and initiating conservation action. LISTEN: Dialogue pour un Canada vert – Radio-Canada → Catherine Potvin Professor of Biology McGill University «Ethnobotany, by focusing on the knowledge, use, and management of plants by people, […]
- [Maya](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/maya/): Maya – Guatemala Maya Guatemala Mayan Identity and Historical Memory Guatemalan Mayan partners visiting the territory of the Cree Nation of Wemindji in northern Quebec (l-r: University of Ottawa anthropologist and CICADA collaborator Karine Vanthuyne, Anisesto Lopez and Alfredo Jacinto Perez). Karine Vanthuyne, professor of anthropology at the University of Ottawa and CICADA academic collaborator, researches issues of memory, identity and indigenous political mobilization. She is partnering with Maya communities in Guatemala to examine Mayan identity as defined by the communities and how it is influenced by historical narratives and present socioeconomic realities. «I am interested in how Mayan identity […]
- [Totonac](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/totonac/): Totonac Totonac Eastern Mexico Totonac Eastern Mexico Voladores Organization – Representatives of the Organization of Voladores and the University of Veracruz’ research team. Evodia Silva, a CICADA academic partner who conducts research on sustainability and sustainable development, works with the Totonac Voladores of Veracruz, Mexico. The Ritual de los Voladores is a Totonac ceremony, during which the Voladores climb a tree pole and swing around it until they reach the ground. UNESCO recognized the Ritual de los Voladores as an Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2009. This ceremony, however, is being compromised by development projects, such as urban growth and logging, […]
- [Anishinaabe (Past)](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/anishinaabe/): Anishinaabe Anishinaabe Ontario and Michigan Walpole Island First Nation and the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa are two Anishinaabe First Nations affiliated with CICADA. Both nations are active members in the Indigenous Confluence: the Role of Indigenous Knowledge in River Restoration and Sustainable Futures project. Walpole Island First Nation Walpole Island First Nation is a Council of Three Fires Nation, with Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi members. This First Nation is located in southern Ontario, northeast of the United States border, in a territory they call Bkejwanong («where the waters divide»). Walpole Island has a rich and diverse landscape, […]
- [Atikamekw](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/atikamekw/): Atikamekw Atikamekw Nitaskinan (St. Maurice Valley), Quebec The Atikamekw are a Nation composed of approximately 7,000 people, living primarily in three reserves, namely Wemotaci, Manawan, and Opitciwan. Their ancestral territory, Nitaskinan, is located among the boreal forests and watersheds of the St. Maurice River in northcentral Quebec. The Atikamekw were a hunter-gatherer people and they still regularly practice hunting, gathering, and fishing, even though they have been largely dispossessed from their territory and marginalized by the Canadian State. The Atikamekw have also continued to exercise their customary tenure system, which is based on extended family territories. This has come under […]
- [Innu](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/innu/): Innu Innu – Nitassinan (eastern region of the Labrador Peninsula), Quebec and Labrador The Innu are an Algonquian people whose territory, traditionally known as Nitassinan, is located in both Quebec and Labrador. CICADA is affiliated with three Innu communities in Quebec: Montagnais de Nutakuan, located at the mouth of the Natashquan River on the north shore of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence; Première nation des Pekuakamiulnuatsh (Mashteuiatsh) in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region; and Première nation des Innus Essipit on the north shore of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Boardwalk on Mashteuiatsh reserve territory, along the Lac Saint-Jean. Source: Paul-Antoine Cardin, 2016. During her 2015 CICADA conference presentation , […]
- [Eeyouch (James Bay Cree)](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/eeyouch-james-bay-cree/): Eeyouch (James Bay Cree) Eeyouch (James Bay Cree) “Eeyou Istchee” is the traditional territory of the Crees of northern Quebec (the Eeyou). The term means “the land of the Eeyou/Eenou (the people)”. The Crees have lived in this homeland, located in Boreal and Taiga ecozones, for thousands of years. There are more than 18,000 Crees, with 16,000 residing in nine Cree communities, and a tenth community is currently in the process of being established. The Cree traditional territory covers 400,000 km2, and the whole territory is used by the Crees for traditional activities of hunting, fishing and trapping. Under the James Bay and […]
- [Inuit](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/inuit/): Inuit Inuit Baffin Island, Nunavut Thierry RodonUniversité Laval Academic co-investigator Thierry Rodon has been working with Inuit communities to research northern governance, indigenous policies, sustainable development, joint management of natural resources, indigenous education, and participatory democracy. «On first consideration, Inuit may appear to have vaulted from life in isolated small societies characterized by little knowledge of the outside world and scant capacity to cope with the complexities and demands of an increasingly global consciousness in a dangerous and complex world. We acknowledge that there is some truth in this observation, but…it also contains important misconceptions and a serious underestimation of […]
- [Tsilhqot’in](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/tsilhqotin/): Tsilhqot’in Tsilhqot’in Chilcotin district, interior of British Columbia Tsilhqot’in First Nation Central British Columbia, Canada CICADA academic collaborator Catherine Nolin has been partnering with the Tsilhqot’in First Nation to articulate the community’s voices and perspectives on extractive industries such as logging and mining, particularly regarding the proposed New Prosperity Gold-Copper mine in 2012. The Fight Against Prosperity Mine «Alice William knows every creek, spring, and legend of the Ts’yl?os mountain region». Catherine NolinUniversity of NorthernBritish Columbia (UNBC) Nolin’s article served as a platform for the community’s many voices. Tsilhqot’in Nation members describe the impacts of such extractive industries on their […]
- [St’át’imc](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/statimc/): St’át’imc St’át’imc Interior of British Columbia The St’át’imc are an Interior Salish Nation whose territory is located in the southern Coast Mountains and Fraser Canyon region, in the interior of British Columbia. There are 11 St’át’imc communities. The St’át’imc vision of the good life is of a continuing and renewed relationship between the St’át’imc people (úcwalmicw – the people of the land) and the land (tmicw). The good ways of life (Nt’ákmen) include: traditional forms of governance; speaking the language and passing it on to young people; positive family relationships and expansive webs of helping and sharing; passing on names; and training for different […]
- [Hul’qumi’num](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/hulquminum/): Hul’qumi’num Hul’qumi’num Gulf Islands and Vancouver Island, British Columbia Hul’qumi’num delegation to IACHR. Source: HTG Human Rights. The Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group is a politically-unified group that represents six Hul’qumi’num-speaking First Nations: Cowichan, Stz’uminus, Penelakut, Lyackson, Halalt, and Lake Cowichan. These Nations are all located in and around southeastern Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands, and the Lower Fraser River. The treaty group was formed in 1993 in order to negotiate a comprehensive land claims agreement with the governments of British Columbia and Canada. Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group member First Nations. Source: Brian Thom and Kathleen Johnnie, CICADA conference presentation 2015. The Hul’qumi’num […]
- [Gitxaala](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/gitxaala/): Gitxaala Gitxaala Kitkatla, British Columbia The Gitxaala Nation has been partnering with Charles Menzies, academic collaborator with CICADA and Gitxaalan scholar, to define respectful researcher-community research relationships and outline the role of consultation, accommodation, and negotiation in these endeavors. «Gitxaała society is shaped by social relations between people, non-human people, and place. To be a person in Gitxaała society is to know one’s history, to whom one is related, and from where one comes. This sense of place and belonging is rooted in a living oral knowledge. Our oral knowledge—history, songs, traditions, ecology, practices—has grown here through the active intersection […]
- [Bigstone Cree](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/bigstone-cree-2/): Bigstone Cree Bigstone Cree Wabasca-Desmarais, Alberta Bigstone Cree Nation is the second largest First Nation in Alberta. Their territory in the subarctic boreal forests of northern Alberta sits atop the Athabasca oil sands deposits, and is a region that is experiencing extreme levels of extractive activities. The Bigstone Cree Nation are signatories of Treaty 8, signed in 1899. This treaty promises that the First Nations of Treaty 8 territory have the right to use public Crown lands for traditional uses and activities; this promise is protected under section 35 of The Constitution Act, 1982. For this reason, the federal and […]
- [Bigstone Cree](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/bigstone-cree/): Bigstone Cree Bigstone Cree Wabasca-Desmarais, Alberta Bigstone Cree Nation is the second largest First Nation in Alberta. Their territory in the subarctic boreal forests of northern Alberta sits atop the Athabasca oil sands deposits, and is a region that is experiencing extreme levels of extractive activities. The Bigstone Cree Nation are signatories of Treaty 8, signed in 1899. This treaty promises that the First Nations of Treaty 8 territory have the right to use public Crown lands for traditional uses and activities; this promise is protected under section 35 of The Constitution Act, 1982. For this reason, the federal and […]
- [Climate Justice 2023](https://cicada.world/en/home/events/climate-justice-2025/): Climate justice Background In the face of climate catastrophe, concepts such as climate justice, territories of life and ethical action research have emerged as potential tools to help navigate complex and uncertain times, with a view to upholding Indigenous rights and self-determined outcomes, while bringing about transformative change. But what do these concepts mean from diverse Indigenous perspectives? How are they analyzed through Indigenous gendered and intergenerational lenses? And what else needs to be considered to reign in climate catastrophe and safeguard our planet’s life systems? These were among the critical questions examined by participants at a retreat held September […]
- [Round table 2025](https://cicada.world/en/home/events/round-table-2025/): Roundtable 2025 May 21, 2025, roundtable co-organized by CICADA member Ingrid Hall (Université de Montréal) and Fabien Girard (Université Grenoble Alpes, Institut universitaire de France), to explore connections between culture, biodiversity and Indigenous territoriality in Quebec, Latin American, and Scandinavian contexts. This roundtable is a sequel to the Conference on Bioculturality in Paris, November, 2024. CICADA co-sponsored both events.
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- [Maasai](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/maasai/): Maasai Southern Kenya and northern Tanzania Caroline Archambault Utrecht University Early marriage among Maasai girls in Kenya is directly related to issues of livelihood insecurity, as is argued by CICADA academic partner Caroline Archambault. Archambault highlights the importance of understanding women’s perspectives on livelihood and land tenure, as they emphasize the relationship between land and well-being for the Maasai. Early Marriage and Livelihood Insecurity «I offer an ethnographic contextualization of the underlying factors giving rise to practices of early marriage, among the Maasai in Enkop, highlighting the contemporary predicaments of pastoralism in the face of population growth, climatic instability, and […]
- [Gwich’in](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/gwichin/): Gwich’in Northeastern Yukon and northwestern regions of the Northwest Territories For the Gwich’in nation, fishing is of great significance to their livelihoods and culture. «Fishing has been and continues to be a large part of the Gwich’in local economy [yet] fishing has been neglected in both popular and scientific accounts of Gwich’in practice… fishing [is] an important, but largely underestimated, part of the Canadian fur trade and explains how fish came to be used by traders and Gwich’in in a system of advances that benefited both parties. As a so-called secondary activity, fishing is entangled in Gwich’in history and their […]
- [Conservation Governance](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/conservation-governance/): Conservation Governance Conservation Governance As international development agendas respond to environmental crises and a growing market for access to ‘wild’ places, conservation enclosures in the form of biodiversity reserves, parks, heritage sites, etc., have become contentious in many countries. They often sharpen intra- and inter-communal conflicts and/or hasten the displacement of indigenous groups. Yet, alternatives exist in community-based conservation and protected area approaches, recognizing traditional inhabitants as integral to ecosystems and affording space for customary and alternative livelihoods. We investigate conditions across this spectrum of outcomes for indigenous peoples, and the circumstances enabling community-based approaches.Our research addresses the broad theme […]
- [Life Projects and Relational Ontologies](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/life-projects-and-relational-ontologies/): Life Projects and Relational Ontologies Working with indigenous partners to identify ontologies about the nature of the world and the relationships in it will clarify priorities for “living well” and for life projects. Indigenous life projects are situated in places and territories, yet they share “relationality” of ontology and cosmovisions often referred to as “animistic”. Identifying these ontological premises prompts a rethinking of communities of life. Through varying ontologies, “society” encompasses inter-species relations and communications and refutes the Western nature/culture divide. Through this research theme, we seek to understand how territory is the locus of human relations of reciprocity with […]
- [Resguardo Indígena Cañamomo Lomaprieta](https://cicada.world/en/home/research/resguardo-indigena-canamomo-lomaprieta/): Cañamomo Lomaprieta Caldas, Colombia Resguardo Indígena Cañamomo Lomaprieta Emberá-Chamí Communities, Caldas Department, Colombia The Resguardo Indígena Cañamomo Lomaprieta is one of six legally constituted indigenous resguardos (reserves) in the Caldas department of Colombia. The Resguardo is constituted of 32 Emberá-Chamí communities distributed between the municipalities of Riosucio and Supía. The territory is home to a growing population of approximately 25,000 people in an area of about 38 km2, rendering the location increasingly crowded. The Resguardo is a partner of CICADA through the Forest Peoples Programme (FPP), who have closely collaborated with the leaders of the Resguardo against intrusive large-scale mining […]
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- [Policy Briefs](https://cicada.world/en/home/research-2/policy-briefs/): Policy Briefs Background This series of policy briefs draws on the presentations and discussions held at the joint CICADA-ICCA Consortium Regional Meeting of Indigenous and Research Partners from Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand as well as the first North American Dialogue on Biocultural Diversity, complemented by relevant literature. These policy briefs are knowledge mobilisation and advocacy tools that address different aspects of biocultural diversity conservation and provide policy recommendations in line with the Atateken Declaration, drafted during the Dialogue. The Declaration is hosted on the website of the Joint Programme between UNESCO and the Secretariat of the […]
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- [Partner Organizations](https://cicada.world/en/home/partners/partner-organizations/): Partner Organizations Institution Location Website Boreal Leadership Council Canada www.borealcouncil.ca Canadian Parks & Wilderness Society Canada www.cpaws.org Collective Matters Canada www.vivianeweitzner.com Equipo Peruano de Antropología Forense Peru www.epafperu.org Forest Peoples Programme Africa and Colombia www.forestpeoples.org Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation Guatemala www.fafg.org ICCA Consortium Global www.iccaconsortium.org Observatorio Ciudadano Chile www.observatorio.cl Pachamama Foundation Ecuador www.pachamama.org.ec Société pour la nature et les parcs Canada www.snapqc.org Wuasikamas Colombia wuasikamas.com
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