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About the Project
About the Project
The CreeGeo Mush Guardians is a Citizen Science initiative for Mushkegowuk youth to collaborate with Elders, community members and Western scientists to learn about the environment and identify Indigenous place names and its history. CreeGeo Mush Guardians will work with various mobile technologies such as Esri's Collector and Survey123 apps and web-based applications such as ArcGIS. They will help to document instances and effects of climate change in their communities by observing and monitoring environmental changes on the land and water, non-Indigenous species and weather. The Guardians are gatekeepers to the land, working with local Elders, stewards and harvesters to establish research plots using GPS. This is where consistent monitoring and data capture will take place, and we will be building activities in each community and for each season as we move forward. With help from Elders, students will also capture the oral and pictographic knowledge and history of the traditional values and teachings.
Using Facebook and other modes of publication, citizens of communities in Mushkegowuk territory often post photos, videos and observations of their land. Mush Guardians are encouraged to use the hashtag #MushGuardians to attach to their posts! This will enable all posts to be gathered together in one accessible place and easily searchable by the public. This will allow for a unique open education opportunity for Mushkegowuk communities to learn from and about each other.
Using Facebook and other modes of publication, citizens of communities in Mushkegowuk territory often post photos, videos and observations of their land. Mush Guardians are encouraged to use the hashtag #MushGuardians to attach to their posts! This will enable all posts to be gathered together in one accessible place and easily searchable by the public. This will allow for a unique open education opportunity for Mushkegowuk communities to learn from and about each other.
Youth Panel representatives, Mushkegowuk Climate Summit, January 2018
The Mushkegowuk Climate Summit is held in Timmins, Ontario as an annual event. In 2018, a Youth Panel was established. These students represented their communities with passion and eloquence; thoughtfully stating their observations and ideas about climate change happening in their own communities. The message was clear: get the youth involved in these matters, as they are eagerly awaiting these opportunities. “Take us with you." When Elders go out on the land, or Mushkegowuk's Environmental Stewards participate in environmental monitoring initiatives, the youth have expressed a desire to learn with them. It is our hope that Mush Guardians will help to realize this goal.
In 2019, the Mushkegowuk Climate Summit was held again in Timmins. This year, the Hudson Bay Consortium partnered with Mushkegowuk Council to bring people from Hudson Bay and James Bay together to discuss matters that affect them most when it comes to changes in the environments in which they live. The Hudson Bay Regional Roundtable was a successful event, and the CreeGeo department brought a group of youth from Attawapiskat First Nation to participate and learn from the attendees.
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Images from Mush Guardians Youth Lunch with Dr. Dave Pearson (Laurentian University), January 2019
Identifying Community Priorities for Research and Restoration
Identifying Community Priorities for Research and Restoration
Click on the communities shown on the maps below to learn about some of the priorities that were outlined by representatives of Mushkegowuk territory during the Hudson Bay Summit held in Montreal, Quebec in February 2018, and from attendees at the Hudson Bay Consortium Regional Roundtable in Timmins, Ontario January 2019, respectively.
Excerpts from Peawanuck, Attawapiskat, Fort Albany, Kashechewan and Moose Cree taken from: Hudson Bay Summit Final Report, Spring 2018
Excerpts from Peawanuck, Attawapiskat, Fort Albany, Kashechewan and Moose Cree taken from: Hudson Bay Consortium Final Report, Fall 2019
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