{"id":4699,"date":"2024-08-01T15:53:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T19:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/3ci\/?page_id=4699"},"modified":"2025-05-08T14:55:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T18:55:24","slug":"living-relations-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/3ci\/living-relations-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Living Relations Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/95UIlJ39GMg?si=IvCXiR9A4jQ3XR5B\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Credit: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nicolebedford.ca\">Nicole Bedford Films<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Context and Purpose<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dominant food systems \u2013 a product of globalized capitalism and colonialism \u2013 are responsible for a third of global greenhouse gas emissions and are the primary cause of biodiversity loss. To transition to a more sustainable and equitable future, the ways we produce, harvest, and distribute food needs to change.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From 2024 to 2027, Living Relations is sharing stories of how Indigenous and settler partners are working together to respond to the food system sustainability transition challenge in Aotearoa New Zealand (ANZ) and Canada. This knowledge sharing project will amplify and build dialogue among Indigenous-led food system sustainability initiatives to show how such initiatives strengthen Indigenous food sovereignty and improve broader societal resilience.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A6fsdxRPDKM?si=y7z0tswkHSxyxTkU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Credit: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nicolebedford.ca\">Nicole Bedford Films<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Living Relations Vision:<\/strong> Strengthening Indigenous food sovereignty through wisdom traditions that improve socio-ecological resilience.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Mission:<\/strong> To provide a research and knowledge mobilization network that amplifies and builds dialogue among Indigenous-led food system sustainability initiatives in Aotearoa New Zealand and Canada. To share stories that demonstrate how Indigenous peoples are working in collaboration with partners to respond to multiple intersecting crises crossing planetary boundaries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Core Living Relations Principles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li><strong>Net benefit to the community<\/strong> must be demonstrated in all activities undertaken.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Indigenous participation<\/strong> will be prioritized as we bring new researchers, students, and community partners into the project<\/li>\n<li><strong>Youth and young leaders <\/strong>will be included in all aspects of our work together<\/li>\n<li><strong>All contributors will receive fair compensation<\/strong> for their work, whether through institutional salaries, other project funding, or grant funds.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Decolonizing methodologies<\/strong> (two-eyed seeing, Te awa whiria, and ethical space) will be adopted in all our work together.<\/li>\n<li><strong>We are all learning and will to be open and kind as we learn together.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Our name: Living Relations <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Living Relations<\/strong> speaks to the connections within the web of life which we rely upon for sustenance. It also expresses the desire to decolonize governance relationships between Indigenous peoples and settlers as central to the stories we share. Finally, it embodies the growing web of relationships between ANZ and Canada that this project will foster. In reconnecting and regenerating our living relations with the web of life, our work emphasizes values of relationality, reciprocity, respect, responsibility, and reverence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Our Symbol: <em>tuna<\/em> \/ <em>tyawer\u00f3n:ko<\/em> \/ eel<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4710\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 712px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-4710 size-full\" title=\"Image credit: Kasey King (n\u00e9e Skipper) from Wairoa, affiliates to Wairewa R\u016bnanga\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/3ci\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"712\" height=\"1268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/3ci\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture1.png 712w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/3ci\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture1-240x427.png 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/3ci\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture1-400x712.png 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/3ci\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture1-160x285.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/3ci\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture1-360x641.png 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 712px) 100vw, 712px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image credit: Kasey King (n\u00e9e Skipper) from Wairoa, affiliates to Wairewa R\u016bnanga<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The eel is an important species to Indigenous peoples in both ANZ and Canada. Known to M\u0101ori as <em>tuna<\/em>, it is both a sacred food and relative. The eel clan, referred to as tyawer\u00f3n:ko in Kanyen\u2019k\u00e9ha (Mohawk language), is also a central clan of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy based on Turtle Island (also known as North America).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The presence of eel is an indicator of health of the environment and related communities, as their life cycles take them from deep in tropical oceans to coastal lagoons and through to the upland streams and mountains. In this way, the eel symbolizes the interconnection between humans, the land, and the sea. In both countries, pollution from large-scale agriculture has severely threatened this culturally important traditional food source and medicine. The fate of the eel is connected to our food producing and foraging landscapes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To address the fate of the eel, our ways of working in relation to these landscapes needs to change. Indigenous ways of knowing offer a path forward by encouraging reciprocal relationships between humans, the land, and water. Stories about efforts to restore eel habitat in Canada and Aotearoa will be among the first this project will share.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Our Origins \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Living Relations<\/strong> emerged from a partnership among the 杏吧原创 Centre for Community Innovation (3ci) in Canada and the Ng\u0101i Tahu Research Centre (NTRC) in ANZ. In June 2023, 3ci and NTC jointly organized the Transition Challenge W\u0101nanga, which brought over sixty experts, including iwi (tribal) authorities, government representatives (regional and national) as well as diverse agricultural industry stakeholders, Indigenous food systems specialists, academics, and representatives from civil society organizations, together in <em>\u014ctautahi<\/em> \/ Christchurch for deep discussions about the transition facing agriculture and environment in Aotearoa. Guided by the Indigenous people of \u014ctautahi, Ng\u0101i T\u016b\u0101huriri, the w\u0101nanga emphasized the role of Indigenous leadership and self-determination efforts in addressing food systems challenges. It showed us the power of dialogue across countries reckoning with settler-colonialism and encouraged us to explore what could be done with a broader network of partners.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Our Partners<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This transnational research and knowledge mobilization project was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada in March 2024. Working with 3ci and the NTRC, core partners include the First Nation of Na Cho N\u2019Yuk Dun in the Yukon Territory, the Indigenous-led non-governmental organization Plenty Canada, the Teme Augama Anishinaabe and Temagami First Nation, and the First Nations Technical Institute based in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory. This diverse team of partners organizations and Nations includes Indigenous expert advisors as well as researchers from 杏吧原创 University, the University of Canterbury, Te Whare W\u0101nanga o Awanui\u0101rangi, Lakehead University, First Nations\u2019 Technical Institute, University of Otago. Queen\u2019s University, and York University among others. This partnership brings together deep experience in sustainable agriculture, fisheries and food systems, law and governance, environmental protection, and Indigenous food sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Planned Outputs and Impact<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the three-year project, a series of multimedia vignettes will be developed alongside participating communities to share learning within and between Indigenous-led initiatives and wider networks. Vignettes will contain combinations of archived interviews, short reports, podcasts, mini-docuseries, academic articles, book chapters and presentations. Vignettes will also feature in webinars promoted through our network of Indigenous, civil society, and government connections. The stories the <strong>Living Relations<\/strong> project shares will inspire new ways of seeing and addressing food system sustainability challenges that align with decolonization. We hope this will encourage <em>w\u0101nanga<\/em> (shared learning) and <em>korero<\/em> (storytelling) within and among communities and countries where these initiatives are emerging.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>To contact us<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Peter Andree, project co-director (Turtle Island), <a href=\"&#x6d;&#x61;&#x69;&#x6c;&#x74;&#x6f;&#x3a;&#x70;&#x65;&#x74;&#x65;&#x72;&#x2e;&#x61;&#x6e;&#x64;&#x72;&#x65;&#x65;&#x40;&#x63;&#x61;&#114;&#108;&#101;&#116;&#111;&#110;&#46;&#99;&#97;\">&#112;&#x65;&#x74;e&#114;&#x2e;a&#110;&#x64;&#x72;e&#101;&#x40;c&#97;&#x72;&#x6c;e&#116;&#x6f;n&#46;&#x63;&#x61;<\/a> +1 819-459-1450<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">John Reid, project co-director (Aotearoa), \u00a0<a href=\"&#x6d;&#x61;&#x69;&#x6c;&#x74;&#x6f;&#x3a;&#x6a;&#x6f;&#x68;&#x6e;&#46;&#114;&#101;&#105;&#100;&#64;&#99;anterb&#x75;&#x72;&#x79;&#x2e;&#x61;&#x63;&#x2e;&#x6e;&#x7a;\">&#x6a;&#111;&#x68;&#x6e;&#46;&#x72;&#x65;&#105;&#x64;&#x40;&#99;&#x61;&#x6e;t&#x65;&#x72;b&#x75;&#114;y&#x2e;&#97;c&#x2e;&#110;z<\/a> +64 21 2721369<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"alignleft\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit: \u00a0Nicole Bedford Films Context and Purpose Dominant food systems \u2013 a product of globalized capitalism and colonialism \u2013 are responsible for a third of global greenhouse gas emissions and are the primary cause of biodiversity loss. 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