Relocating traditional infrastructure
Māori impacted by the recent Cyclone Gabrielle are facing difficult decisions over relocating community structures and marae. Although...
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slambert360
- May 29
- 2 min
Turtle Is-Land continues to burn...
Scary stories from Halifax where wildfires ('unprecedented') have taken up to 10 homes and threaten many more. Evacuations continue and...
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slambert360
- May 23
- 1 min
"Extractivism is lethal..."
Settler colonial resilience is built on Indigenous vulnerabilities. In Aotearoa New Zealand we see Pakeha farmers divided over responses...
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slambert360
- Apr 4
- 1 min
Disaster Politics: Surviving End Times
An important article by Yorkshireman Prof Steve Matthewman (now a domiciled Pakeha/tauiwi in Aotearoa New Zealand) who nicely quotes me:...
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slambert360
- Feb 24
- 2 min
Maori and Floods ...
The latest disaster to hit Aoteroa New Zealand - a series of weather events, headlined by Cyclone Gabrielle - that flooded extensive...
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slambert360
- Jan 18
- 1 min
Human Trafficking in the Prairies
An important and sobering report on the issue of human trafficking in the Canadian Prairies, led by a cherished colleague of mine, Dr....
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slambert360
- Nov 17, 2022
- 1 min
Emergency Management in First Nations (Canada)
And so another report that can be summarized, indeed is summarized, as "Overall, Indigenous Services Canada did not provide the support...
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slambert360
- Nov 10, 2022
- 1 min
Saskatchewan First Nations Emergency Management Conference 2022
The first face-to-face meeting in three years for this network shows the passion and commitment of First Nations first responders but...
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slambert360
- Sep 30, 2022
- 1 min
How to be a good Treaty partner
Composed by Faumuina Felolini Maria Tafuna’i for the Values Compass of the Edmund Hillary Fellowship, with input from the Kāhui Māori. 1....
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slambert360
- Sep 23, 2022
- 1 min
APMCDRR Co-Chairs Statement
Six mentions of "Indigenous" but always coupled with other 'stakeholders'. As asserted several times by Indigenous speakers, Indigenous...
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slambert360
- Sep 22, 2022
- 1 min
Asia Pacific Ministerial Conference on DRR
Just finished in Brisbane, a talkfest for those at the highest levels but importantly a chance for practitioners and supporters of...
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slambert360
- Jan 16, 2022
- 1 min
Canadian govt must work with Indigenous communities to mitigate climate disasters...
The evidence keeps accumulating; it is no longer (only) a question of Indigenous rights, Treaty relationships, and Indigenous peoples...
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slambert360
- Nov 19, 2021
- 1 min
The (Indigenous) lake that became a (colonial) development that became a (colonial) disaster ...
So Sumas Prairie was Sumas Lake, an Indigenous waterway that provided sustenance and security and cultural resources for Sumas First...
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slambert360
- Oct 22, 2021
- 1 min
RADIX manifesto...
A call for change in the DRR space come to my attention last week. RADIX - a group dedicated to the "Radical interpretation of disasters"...
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slambert360
- Sep 19, 2021
- 1 min
Latest publication on Indigenous Knowledge
Proud to have just published an article in AlterNative looking at how Maori traditional knowledge holders maintain a practice of...
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slambert360
- May 7, 2021
- 1 min
Data sovereignty advances in US
A new tack from the Biden-Harris Presidency shows Indigenous issues are being given a much stronger platform to voice positions on, among...
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slambert360
- Mar 5, 2021
- 1 min
Indigenous Fire Management: past, present, and future
Recently presented on Indigenous fire management with two Indigenous fire experts. link here
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slambert360
- Dec 18, 2020
- 1 min
Survivance and Indigenous street lifestyles
D. Robert Henry, University of Saskatchewan January 21, 2021 11:00am PT / 12:00pm MT / 1:00pm CT / 2:00pm ET / 3:00pm AT / 3:30pm NT...
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slambert360
- Dec 16, 2020
- 1 min
Canada govt halting steps towards UNDRIP...
Bill C-15 hints at a formal acknowledgement of the inherent and legal rights of Indigenous Peoples in Canada but long slow sighs can be...
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slambert360
- Nov 11, 2020
- 1 min
Biosurveillance and Human Rights
Special rapporteur for the UN, Professor Tendayi Achiume, has called out the use of digital surveillance technologies as potentially...
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