{"id":4650,"date":"2025-10-04T12:36:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T16:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/climatecommons\/?page_id=4650"},"modified":"2025-10-04T12:36:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T16:36:17","slug":"october-2-beedahbin-peltier-indigenous-languages-informing-environmental-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/climatecommons\/october-2-beedahbin-peltier-indigenous-languages-informing-environmental-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"October 2: Beedahbin Peltier- Indigenous Languages Informing Environmental Knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4652\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/climatecommons\/wp-content\/uploads\/10.2.25-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1728\" height=\"2304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/climatecommons\/wp-content\/uploads\/10.2.25-1.jpg 1728w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/climatecommons\/wp-content\/uploads\/10.2.25-1-240x320.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/climatecommons\/wp-content\/uploads\/10.2.25-1-400x533.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/climatecommons\/wp-content\/uploads\/10.2.25-1-160x213.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/climatecommons\/wp-content\/uploads\/10.2.25-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/climatecommons\/wp-content\/uploads\/10.2.25-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/climatecommons\/wp-content\/uploads\/10.2.25-1-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/climatecommons\/wp-content\/uploads\/10.2.25-1-360x480.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/climatecommons\/wp-content\/uploads\/10.2.25-1-200x267.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1728px) 100vw, 1728px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Actions<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Listen and learn: Attend one local event, talk, or online webinar led by Indigenous speakers. Consistently participate in this conversations.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Follow Indigenous voices: Subscribe to one Indigenous-led newsletter, social account, or podcast to center community perspectives in your feed.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learn a few words: Memorize and use 3\u20135 simple Anishinaabemowin phrases (greetings, place names, nature words) in daily life. Learn and use one new Indigenous word each week.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read with care: Read one book or article by an Indigenous author about language or land (e.g., Braiding Sweetgrass) and note one idea to act on.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Take a beginner course: Enroll in a community or online introductory Anishinaabemowin class and commit to regular practice.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Use language publicly: Add a learned greeting or land acknowledgement in meetings, presentations, or social media posts, clearly attribute and explain its origin.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Create a language-friendly space: Plant native species, request to put up simple bilingual signage in a community space, or label walking trails with Indigenous place names.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Practice humility: Replace \u201cteaching\u201d impulses with listening; when you share knowledge, credit the source and follow cultural protocols.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Practice patience: As Indigenous peoples revitalize their language and traditions, respect that recovery is a long, community-led process shaped by history, trauma, and local priorities.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Resource List<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/indigenize.ca\/aboutus\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indigenize.ca<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ojibwe.lib.umn.edu\/main-entry\/anishinaabemowin-ni\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anishinaabemowin Dictionary<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mazinaate.com\/product\/pocket-ojibwe\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ojibwe Pocket Book<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chiblow, S. &amp; Meighan, P. J. Language Is Land, Land Is Language: The Importance Of Indigenous Languages. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Human Geography<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 15, 206\u2013210 (2022).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kimmerer, Robin Wall. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Milkweed Editions, 2013.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kimmerer, Robin Wall. \u201cLearning Grammar of Animacy.\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Milkweed Editions, 2013.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gilio-Whitaker, Dina. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Beacon Press, 2019.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@uvicindigenouslawresearchu8349\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">University of Victoria Indigenous Law Research Unit<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actions Listen and learn: Attend one local event, talk, or online webinar led by Indigenous speakers. Consistently participate in this conversations.\u00a0 Follow Indigenous voices: Subscribe to one Indigenous-led newsletter, social account, or podcast to center community perspectives in your feed. Learn a few words: Memorize and use 3\u20135 simple Anishinaabemowin phrases (greetings, place names, nature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>October 2: Beedahbin Peltier- Indigenous Languages Informing Environmental Knowledge - Carleton Climate Commons Working Group\u200b<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Actions Listen and learn: Attend one local event, talk, or online webinar led by Indigenous speakers. 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