In the Arctic Circle, Innu peoples\u2019 relationship with caribou \u201cis so sacred that we could become them, and they could become one of us,\u201d says Val\u00e9rie Courtois. She is a member of the Innu community of Mashteuiatsh, a forester by trade, and the Director of the Indigenous Leadership Initiative, an organization dedicated to strengthening Indigenous nationhood and leadership. Val\u00e9rie has spent her life bridging traditional Indigenous knowledge and Western science. She shares stories about what it\u2019s like to live in the Boreal, home to hundreds of species of lichen and nesting ground to billions of birds. The special relationship between caribou and people in these lands goes back thousands of years and holds lessons about caring for Mother Earth and each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In this audio interview with Val\u00e9rie Courtois (member of the Innu community of Mashteuiatsh and Director of Indigenous Leadership Initiative), Val\u00e9rie shares her relationship and kinship with the Boreal Forest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2391,2803],"tags":[3366,2989,3068,3073,4868,3074,4869,4870,3075,2812,3047],"class_list":["post-5501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indigenous-led-conservation-and-ipcas","category-resource-fr","tag-arctic-fr","tag-boreal-forest-fr","tag-caribou-fr","tag-indigenous-leadership-initiative-fr","tag-ini-fr","tag-innu-fr","tag-kinship-fr","tag-mashteuiatsh-fr","tag-podcast-fr","tag-relationships-fr","tag-two-eyed-seeing-fr"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t