Decolonizing ENGO-First Nation Partnerships (Fall 2025)
Event Details
The DEFNP workshop series will offer tailored programming designed to match ENGOs on their decolonial (un)learning journeys. In Fall 2025, members of the ENGO sector will be able to choose one of three workshop tracks: Introduction to Decolonization in the ENGO Sector, Advanced Decolonial Theory and Application, or For Indigenous Ears Only – A Space for Reflection and Action. Each series consists of four three-hour sessions.
Collectively, Decolonizing ENGO-First Nation Partnerships fosters:
- Awareness of settler colonialism and the ways it potentially harnesses civil society;
- Understanding about how Canadian law such as the Indian Act and the Income Tax Act has suppressed Indigenous governance systems;
- Awareness that Indigenous peoples have unique inherent political and legal systems, with which ENGOs may want to form partnerships;
- A better understanding about how to navigate partnerships with Indigenous communities that promote decolonial environmentalism;
- A stronger sense about how to identify and explain individual and organization social locations (i.e. positionalities) as part of ethical partnership development;
- Promoting the resurgence of Indigenous self-determination in the Canadian ENGO sector.
