Keynote Speaker Michael Waasegiizhig-Price

This year’s keynote: Braiding Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Western Scientific Perspectives for a Healthier Earth.

“Anishinaabe people have always recognized the interconnectedness that we, as humans, have to our surrounding environment. These interconnections are articulated and passed down in the community through storytelling, language, and ceremony. This presentation will offer a new, rather ancient, perspective in our connection to the earth based upon Anishinaabe teachings. By combining Indigenous knowledge and wisdom with science, we may find new ways to honor and protect our sacred ecosystems in a resource-dependent world.” 

Biography:

Michael Waasegiizhig-Price is Anishinaabe and an enrolled member of the Wikwemikong First Nations in Ontario. Michael received a Master of Science in Forestry from the University of Montana–Missoula and a Certificate of Ojibwe Language Instruction from Bemidji State University in Minnesota. Grounded in both science and traditional Native American society, Michael has sought to find connections between these two systems of knowledge in a time when our world faces many ecological crises.