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The theme of this year’s symposium is “Articulating Indigenous Identities across the Seven Generations”.

Approximately 1,800 kilometres of transmission lines will be built to connect the 17 remote First Nations communities and 14,000 people to the Ontario power grid.

“I'm very excited and honored and blessed to have the opportunity to do this not only for myself, but for the Indigenous community to have another platform supported by a local television station to give light to Indigenous stories, culture, and tradition.” — Tchadas Leo, Our Native Land, CHEK television

“It’s a dream of mine that someday parents will be able to have libraries for themselves and their children in Indigenous languages.” — Blackflies illustrator Jay Odjick

(Author’s note: Ray Williams, Ghoo-Noom-Tuuk-Tomlth, passed away Oct. 31, 2022, just two months after he was interviewed for this story. This story is dedicated to his memory. Like the coastal wolves Ray was named for, he was highly aware, family orientated and protective of his territory. Let his spirit live on.)

“We are heavily invested in Indigenous engagements as part of all our work where we have capacity, and we know that Indigenous communities are interested in investing, learning and leveraging those technologies to live in and promote their communities as green communities as well.” —Foresight CEO Jeanette Jackson

“Sometimes you want to be among your own. We’re working things out. I call this ‘irreconcilable spaces of Indigeneity’… You’re not always explaining everything. You’re getting on with it.” —David Garneau

“Over the last 10 years First Nations in the Great Bear Rainforest and Haida Gwaii have created a road-map for how we can sustain the most ecologically significant places on the planet…” — Huux Percy Crosby of the Haida Nation

“The idea with the book is to be an anti-racist text that preserves stories and provides that opportunity in that space for others to hear the perspectives and the experiences that aren't our own.” — author Ian Kennedy