Two-Eyed Seeing: A Story about the Centre for Indigenous Fisheries

When humans came to the earth, we were pitiful and we couldn't survive on our own.

>> We are only here, I am only here because of the generations and millennia of fish that have given their bodies to us for sustenance. My nation was was worried about fish conservation long before DFO or the government was. Time and again the nation has tried to raise the alarm and feels like nobody listens.

>> The fishing activities of indigenous [music] peoples around the world have faced the same colonial experience. They've been profoundly [music] transformed and reshaped by a variety of forces. [music] Mary Sinclair made a really profound statement that it was education [music] that got us into this mess and it's education that's going to get us out of

it. >> [music] >> I the Center for Indigenous Fisheries is a place where we've been able to do good scholarship as indigenous people and allies without having to justify our scholarship in the first place. >> It's a space where we get to be the voice for folks who have been marginalized from Western academic

research. And that really is core to who we are is adopting an anti-colonial approach of [music] bringing forward indigenous fisheries in their own sovereignty and their own rights.

I joined the Institute for Oceans and Fisheries when it first started as an interdisciplinary institute. We started a couple of years of having uh planning meetings and uh sort of 50% indigenous representatives to make a real strategic plan that the university would accept and commit to.