Weaving Together the Health and Wellbeing of Children & Land

Cree Elder, Mr. Joseph Masty asked: “If the land is not healhty, then how can we be?” Medical Health Officer withVancouver Island Helath and a member of Stz’uminas First Nation, Dr. Shannon Waters says: “We are the land, and the land is us” Indigenous worldviews include ethnics of respect, reciprocity, and responsibility to the land and other beings inhabiting the land.

Presented by: Danielle Alphonse, VIU: BC Regional Innovation Chair for Aboriginal Island University since 2013. In this role she has contributed to faculity development around Truth and Reconciliation, Aboriginal education and understanding about First Nations ways of knowing traditions, protocols and spiritual practices. 

Sheila Grieve, VIU Sheila is a Metis early childhood education and is grateful to the Snuneymuxw people; she currently learns, lives and works on their unceded tradional territory. Her passion is learning from the land and spending time with plants and children. Sheila believes that plants are a way to create connections to land and self.