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Indigenous Engagement in Transboundary Water
Governance
Exploring the relationship between boundaries,Indigenous engagement, and Indigenous action
in the context of water governance
Warrick Baijius, PhD candidateDepartment of Geography and Planning
Wuskwi SipihkFirst Nation
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• Community and Watershed Context
• Land Use/Land Cover Change
• Water Governance, Planning, and State-Indigenous Engagement
• Boundary Concepts
• Indigenous Action as Indigenous Engagement
• Discussion
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Map source:Swan Lake IWMP Public Consultation Summary document
Wuskwi SipihkFirst Nation
Co
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xtSwan River Watershed
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Sources: GeoBase 50k DEMWater Survey of Canada
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Sources: Google EarthWater Survey of Canada
Agricultural Drainage
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Agricultural Drainage
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Land Cover Change
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Circa 1984 Circa 2015
Images: Google Earth
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1984 2004 2009 2011 2015
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1984 1997 2004 2008 2015
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1984 1988 2000 2014 2015
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1989 1990 1991 1992 1993
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1984 1995 1996 2010 2015
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Land Cover Change - Detailed
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Image: 5km LANDSAT 7 Orthophoto. Source: mli.gov.mb.ca
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Image: 5km LANDSAT 7 Orthophoto. Source: mli.gov.mb.ca
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Image: 5km LANDSAT 7 Orthophoto. Source: mli.gov.mb.ca
Forestry
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Go
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Manitoba Government
Conservation District Act
CD Commission
Conservation Districts
Sub-district committees
CD Boards
Water Protection Act
Watershed Planning
Authorities
Water Council
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Go
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Source: https://www.gov.mb.ca/waterstewardship/iwmp/pdf/iwmp_handout.pdf
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• Jurisdiction, Responsibility, Ownership
• Knowledge, Concepts, and Language
• Ways of Being, Living, and Doing
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Jurisdiction, Responsibility, and Ownership
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Image above: Wikipedia - Dominion Land Survey. CC BY-SA 3.0Left: INAC, online
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Knowledge, Concepts, and Language
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Images: Stewart et al. 2010. Field Manual on Buffer Design for the Canadian Prairies.
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Ways of Being, Living, and Doing
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Four Aspects of the Self A World of Relations
From: D’Arcy Rheault (1999). Anishinaabe Mino-Bimaadiziwin: The Way of a Good Life. Debwewin Press, Ontario.
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Map: 2014 Swan River IWMP
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Above and top: 2014 Swan River IWMPLeft: Kate Ely, Hydrologist, http://aquadoc.typepad.com/waterwired/2008/12/postmodern-hydrologic-cycle.html
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Above and right: CEC Bipole III Public Hearing transcripts
Ways of Being and Doing - Praxis
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Dis
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• Administrative and Property Boundaries
• Praxis
• Ethical Spaces
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Acknowledgements
• Wuskwi Sipihk First Nation and Dan Soprovich (Lands Manager)
• CREATE H2O + NSERC
• Advisors• Bob Patrick (U of S)
• Chris Furgal (Trent U)
• Committee members• Sarah Nickel
• Bram Noble
• Graham Strickert
• Ryan Walker
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