Northern Indigenous Stewardship Circle

05/13/2026

Apply now to the first Northern Guardians
Leadership Retreat: Embrace Your Story.

A program for Guardians and Guardian
Coordinators ready to grow their confidence as speakers, storytellers, and leaders.

Deadline is this Friday, May 15.
Read more and apply at the link in our bio!

04/30/2026

Applications are open for Embrace Your Story: Northern Guardians Leadership Retreat. A program for Guardians and Guardian Coordinators ready to grow their confidence as speakers, storytellers, and leaders. Read more and apply: https://www.indigenousstewardship.com/guardians-retreat

Who should apply: Guardians and Guardian Coordinators who want to lead with voice and story.

11/22/2024

Great coverage by The Narwhal of the NWT PFP deal.

Find the link in this post https://wix.to/TYB3izQ

If you have seen recent news, you'll know a major agreement was reached in the NWT last week. The NWT: Our Land for the Future agreement was signed by most Indigenous governments in the NWT, Canada and the Government of the Northwest Territories. The agreement is a Project for Finance Permanance (PF...

11/18/2024

The Indigenous Guardians Data Roundtable report is here for review!

Check out the latest post

The Northern Indigenous Stewardship Circle (NISC), Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre (GCRC) at Carleton University, and Exchange for Local Observations and Knowledge of the Arctic (ELOKA) collaboratively organized the Indigenous Guardians Data Roundtable, with support from the MakeWay and O...

11/15/2024

The future of Dene and Indigenous peoples continuing our sacred relationship with land, animals and water got brighter as a new agreement is signed in the NWT.

Check out my blog post https://wix.to/cEODLA6

06/14/2024

Angunasuktiit is an all-year land and hunting instruction program run through the Ittaq Heritage and Research Centre in Kangiqtugaapik (Clyde River), Nunavut...

06/07/2024

BQCMB Executive Director Tina Giroux-Robillard holds the board's draft 10-year Caribou Management Plan, Caribou is Life, which has now been finalized. Read the BQCMB's news release here: https://arctic-caribou.com/caribou-is-life-new-10-year-management-plan-promotes-shared-responsibility/

04/18/2024

Registration is now CLOSED.

04/18/2024

The Land Needs Guardians campaign is raising awareness about the *many* benefits of Guardians and calling on Canada to invest in MORE Guardians on the ground. But we need you to join us! Have you signed the statement yet? 🖊

Use your voice now to call on the government of Canada to:
✅ Make major and ongoing investments in Guardians programs all across the country.
✅ Support Indigenous-led efforts to plan and manage some of the largest Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas in the world.

Sign, share…what are you waiting for? 👉 https://landneedsguardians.ca/addyourname

04/12/2024

Thank you to Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in and Yukon University for the invite to come to Dawson City to train the guardian program on survey 123 for the use of data collection through the app for collecting data in the field!!! Had a great week working with the group and look forward to hearing about how the survey creation works for your program!! Thank you again for welcoming me into your community!! Also thank you to the language instructors who came in to help us incorporate the traditional language into the surveys for guardian use in the field!!

Tanya Ball
NISC Guardian Coordinator