An introduction to our new Youth Engagement Lead, Shay lynn Sampson

With the curriculum development complete, the toolkit team felt it would be a good idea to have our Community Engagement Lead, Jayce Chiblow, practise some of the exercises that were tougher to adapt to an online/distance environment. Our goal was to test functionality and to find ways to improve these online modifications. Keeping in mind the results of our Youth Needs Assessment, ICA felt the best way to do this was to invite 10 youth from our network to join the session to offer input and feedback into these exercises while also gauging interest in the program.

Check out our Winter 2021 newsletter to read about what we’ve been doing over the last few months!

Indigenous Climate Action is proud to announce a new, experimental initiative - Sovereignty in Action - where ICA awards grants to small, grassroots Indigenous-led groups and projects. This new initiative arises from the current pandemic, where ICA is prioritizing the health and safety of Indigenous Peoples, communities, and our staff.

Over the summer, the ICA team and a student research partner completed a “Youth Needs Assessment” to identify the motivations and challenges faced by Indigenous youth engaged in climate and Indigenous rights advocacy work. The assessment is directing the future of our Youth Program to make it relevant to the needs, experiences and aspirations of Indigenous youth.

ICA has been working to enact new processes to help support our Indigenous leaders to be able to heal, to work, and to live within the context of our hurting world. We came to a place where finally addressing this was not just the right thing to do, but the necessary thing to do.

In this piece, our Communications Director, Lindsey Bacigal, dives into the history of this racial slur and how it continues to affect Indigenous women.

ICA’s Executive Director, Eriel Deranger, made a courageous decision to take time away from climate justice work to ensure care for the health and wellbeing of her and her loved ones. This post speaks to the need for healing justice and how people can support this important work.

Our Executive Director, Eriel, is going on a sabbatical for a few months. Here is why she is going on this healing journey, in her words.

With deep respect and love, Indigenous Climate Action stands in solidarity with the global Black Lives Matter and Black Liberation movements, along with all of our Black and Indigenous relatives advocating to uplift Black voices, people, and rights.

The team at Indigenous Climate Action wants to thank all of the great artists that submitted to our logo competition! To honor everyone's work, we wanted to provide this showcase of all the submissions. If someone's design intrigues you, we've also included links to get in touch with them.

In March, Indigenous Climate Action put together our first webinar related to COVID19, in collaboration with Idle No More and NDN fellows, Waasekom and Jesse Cardinal. Following this, we then put together a series of four webinars with Indigenous Rising Media (a project of Indigenous Environmental Network).

Hello relatives! During this difficult time, we wanted to put together some links for Indigenous folks north of the medicine line, specifically. We hope that you’re all staying safe; we will get through this like we always have.