This session highlights how Indigenous communities and scholars are reclaiming knowledge systems, revitalizing land-based healing, and transforming institutional, environmental, and epistemological landscapes. Presenters explore diverse case studies—ranging from healing spaces within mental health institutions in Canada to Shuar science in the Amazon, climate resilience in Malawi, and the spatial politics of Indigenous women’s weaving in Paraguay. Together, these presentations emphasize the importance of sovereignty, co-production, and decolonization in Indigenous knowledge-making.

• 10:15 AM
  Sacred Fires, Not Fire Pits: Environmental Repossession Through Traditional Healing Spaces in Canada's Largest Mental Health Hospital
  Vanessa Ambtman-Smith, Western University

• 10:30 AM
  Models of Engagement Between Western Science and Indigenous Knowledge Systems: Lessons from the FISHES Project
  Magdalena García, Concordia University

• 10:45 AM
  Anentaim-Sa-Tin-Nunka (Thinking Earth) for Planetary Health: Listening to Mother Earth’s Wisdom through Shuar Science
  Martina Jakubchik-Paloheimo, Queen's University

• 11:00 AM
  Indigenous & Local Knowledge Systems and Mzuzu City: Invoking Local Knowledge for Climate Resilience
  Andy Kwaku Kusi-Appiah, Carleton University

• 11:15 AM
  Weaving territory through the making of handicrafts: The spatial practices of Indigenous women within the context of a territorial claim in Paraguay
  Lorna Quiroga, Carleton University

• 11:30 AM
  Akikpautik: a natural medicine wheel in the heart of the country
  Romola V. Thumbadoo, Carleton University