Paper short abstract:

Increasingly Indigenous Knowledge is becoming valued in conservation efforts around the world. Yet are Indigenous People benefiting from those conservation efforts? Dr Sherry Pictou discusses using an Indigenous feminist lens to explore this question within tensions between neocolonial capitalism and conservation.

Paper long abstract:

Brief bio: Dr Sherry Pictou is a Mi’kmaw scholar at Dalhousie University and holds a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Governance. She is the first female Honorary District Chief for the Confederacy of Mainland Mi’kmaq and is a member of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Task Force on Indigenous and Local Knowledge.