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  1. Nov 2023
    1. support cross-cultural collaboration across three Inuit regions, elevate Inuit leadership, knowledge, and decision-making, and advance knowledge co-production, shared understandings, and strong co-management.

      This fall through a community-based co-management course, I've enjoyed getting to learn more about Inuit leadership and the strength, collaboration and creativity of Inuit communities living in the Arctic. The three Inuit land claim agreements with Canada have collaborating co-management boards that help guide the Canadian government on setting quotas for instance on how many of a certain species should be allowed to be harvested. The Nanuk Knowledge and Dialogue Project is important in having Inuit voices heard about nanuk (polar bear) health, and so many more topics of importance with co-management.

    1. Chief (Sakom) Hugh Akagi always has thought-provoking things to say, and the topic of reconciliation is no exception. The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King brought up many concerning truths of Canadian history and present reality, echoed in Akagi's reflections. 'How can you restore something that's no longer there?' We cannot have reconciliation, we cannot move forward to co-manage Turtle Island/Canada without knowing and discussing and accepting the truth. Those who were harmed must be part of the process and those who caused harm must be willing to admit the wrongs that were caused.

    1. A similar 2013 statement of cooperation included the Wabanaki Tribes of Maine, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) National Marine Fisheries Service, and the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs. The May 26 signing will amend that original statement of cooperation to include the Peskotomuhkati Nation at Skutik (New Brunswick), the Maine Department of Marine Resources, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, and the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Natural Resources Conservation Service.

      I love seeing this great co-management news stories like this. Revitalization of polluted rivers like the beautiful Skutik along the Maine/ New Brunswick border is critical to healing ecosystems and relationships between Indigenous people and white settlers of this land. Great to see the Statement of Cooperation signed and Canada playing a more active role in reconciliation along the Skutik.

  2. Sep 2023
    1. Let us at this point simply note that the Māra drive seems reducible to a wish to maintain the status quo (“sentient beings suffer, and they shall keep doing so!”) whereas the Bodhisattva is committed to infinite transformation.
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        • this is definitely seeing evolution through a Buddhist lens!
        • mara - maintain status quo
        • bodhisattva - infinite transformation
  3. Sep 2018
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