05. Indigenous Knowledge / Indigenous Land and Resource Use

As part of the Marten Falls First Nation Community Access Road Project potentially impacted Indigenous communities are invited to participate in the Indigenous Knowledge program. Understanding Aboriginal and Treaty Rights as part of this program is of paramount importance for preventing and reducing harm to Indigenous Peoples’ culture and their territories.

So far, Indigenous Knowledge has:

• Helped confirm which route alternatives to move forward
  with
• Created categories for collecting information (e.g., game
  trails, fish spawning)
• Provided previously collected information to inform the
  early stages of the Community Access Road
• Reviewed field program site locations to identify any
  concerns