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FEATURE The Water Rights Research Consortium, which held a symposium in The Pas in May, has grown far beyond anyone’s expectations. It now includes 30 researchers, including Dr. Annemieke Farenhorst, who will help train Sapotaweyak Cree Nation youth to test water samples in their community. She’s also working on another ambitious idea to create a graduate-level science and engineering training program on integrated water resource and sanitation management. While some members of the consortium have extensive experience working in partnership with Indigenous communities, others are new to this work. The Centre for Human Rights Research hosted a workshop in March to celebrate successful First Nations and Metis research partnerships and help junior researchers gain skills and tools. The most important thing researchers can bring to such a partnership is a humble attitude. Lakota researcher Dr. Jeff Henderson told a Winnipeg audience recently that his community uses the word Wowahwala to describe people little recognized during their lifetimes whose funerals are packed with those who respect their humble and patient ways. U.S. tribes wish the researchers who come to them would be like that, Henderson said. For more information Visit the CCHR website www.chrr.info and join the mailing list to receive notices about upcoming events, including a public seminar series on water as a human right. A ‘How-To’ for UN Declaration Indigenous Rights in Canada By Margaret Anne Fehr Understanding and Implementing the UN DeclaratioN oNt he rights of iNDigeNoUs PeoPles An Introductory Handbook A partnership between Robson Hall Faculty of Law at the University of Manitoba and the Indigenous Bar Association has culminated in the launch of a guide entitled “Understanding and Implementing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: An Introductory Handbook.” The objective of this project was to raise awareness of the standards set out in the UN Declaration and to provide guidelines on how Aboriginal communities and their leaders, the legal community, academics, and the broader Canadian society might apply these standards to bring about social and legal change in Canada. A series of half-day workshops in Halifax, Ottawa, Winnipeg, and Vancouver in the fall of 2011 introduced the handbook and provided detailed information on the publication. The workshops included discussions on how the UN Declaration fits within international and Canadian law and on how participants might use the handbook in their own work. Workshop attendees’ comments about the handbook’s usefulness were positive. “I will be able to apply the information in the handbook to real situations of other Indigenous peoples,” one participant commented. “The handbook shows what Indigenous communities around the globe are doing to ensure that their aspirations are being met,” said another. Some workshop participants indicated that they had already distributed advance copies of the handbook. “I was visiting Australia with an environmental group working with Indigenous peoples who asked for some copies, and so I sent them some,” said one participant. Other awareness streams include the creation of accessible community legal education materials on the UN Declaration and how it could be used in Canada, as well as a page of useful materials on the Indigenous Bar Association’s website. Finally, lessons learned in this project will feed into an academic article on implementing the UN Declaration in Canada. For more information Contact Professor Brenda Gunn email, Brenda.Gunn@ad.umanitoba.ca or phone 204-272-1667. 15 ROBSON HALL ALUMNI REPORT
A seminAr series held At the University of Manitoba during the 2012-13 AcAdemic yeAr orgAnized by the Centre for HUMan rigHts researCH CritiCal Conversations First NatioNs aNd the right to Water most events Are on Mondays froM 2:30-4:00 in rooM 206 faculty of law Join the mAiling list @chrr.info Photo by Kendra Campeau, Sapotaweyak Cree Nation
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