Along the Forest Path Creations

NWAC is collaborating with Indigenous women, Elders, Knowledge keepers, and communities to increase their participation in the IPBES project. NWAC provides input on various reports, publications, and documents to ensure that the voices of Indigenous women in all their diversity, are included in the protection of biodiversity.

The Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC) wishes everyone a happy International Day of Biodiversity! Today, we honor the past, present, and future work of Indigenous women in all their diversity, celebrating their meaningful role in environmental protection and ensuring a better future for our children and grandchildren. Today, we celebrate biodiversity and those who support and defend it.

Fireweed and lupin tiles

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Pop by the CPAWS Yukon office for our holiday open house!

📅 Monday Dec 15th, 4:00-7:00pm
📍 CPAWS Yukon Office at 301 Hawkins St, Whitehorse

Together, we’ll reflect on the past year and have drop-in activities with Amy Genier! Our open house is our way of saying thank you for all your support through conservation challenges and wins.

🍲 Warm up with homemade baking and tea.
🌲 Jump in to make spruce pitch salve and process wolf-willow beads with Amy Genier.
🎬 Catch inspiring short videos from recent on-the-land trips and connect with the landscapes we’re working to protect.

About Amy:
Amy Genier is Southern Tutchone Wolf Clan, from the Ta'an Kwach'an Council First Nation. She is a descendent of the Jenny Laberge family, her ancestral ties are to F***y Jim and Jimmy Smith. Her dad is John Burdek (Ta'an Kwach'an Council First Nation Elder) and her grandmother is Elizabeth (Betty) Miller (Kwanlin Dun First Nation Elder). She has been gathering traditional plant medicine knowledge for the last 20 years, and still has so much more to learn. Her three children and she spend countless hours foraging for and harvesting traditional plants and crafting traditional creations from our Yukon forests. Her primary focus (aka her passion) is being a traditional and modern plant knowledge facilitator.
Facilitating opportunities for learning by creating safe spaces for sharing, embracing, and revitalizing this traditional wisdom and knowledge in a good way. Her goal is to create opportunities for inter generational learning that fosters cultural connection while contributing to the preservation and revitalization of traditional knowledge for future generations.
She loves creating unique art pieces showcasing treasures found within traditional territories of the Yukon's Boreal Forest. Facilitating knowledge sharing and creating connections.

If you are around the KDCC- check out the beautiful exhibit! https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1AENDRMVke/?mibextid=wwXIfr