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Ocean Week Canada

June 2-11, 2023

Ocean Week Canada is an annual national celebration of ocean events, learning, and engagement held during the week of World Ocean Day (June 8). Through these events and learning activities, we recognize the important role the ocean plays in our everyday lives and how local waterways connect us all with the ocean. Help us raise public awareness and celebrate this connection to coastal areas, the ocean, and watersheds in Canada. Together, we can inspire action to ensure a healthy ocean for future generations.

LEARN MORE ABOUT OCEAN WEEK CANADA

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June 2-11, 2023 Ocean Week Canada is an annual national celebration of ocean events, learning, and engagement held during the week of World Ocean Day (June 8). Through these events and learning activities, we recognize the important role the ocean plays in our everyday lives and how local waterways connect us all with the ocean.

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Native Land has been featured in many news outlets and interviews. We've included a few select examples here. We've also included a few videos or examples of presentations we've given to organizations that help to explain different aspects of the mission and history of Native Land Digital.

Articles

Recorded Webinars and Presentations
SLAWNY - Land Acknowledgements
Victor Temprano & Samantha Martin-Ferris
University of British Columbia - The Land You Live On Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology Global Oneness Project: Enhancing Our Understanding: Learning and Teaching about Indigenous Cultures, Languages, and Territories https://www.globalonenessproject.org/library/webinars/enhancing-our-understanding-learning-and-teaching-about-indigenous-cultures
Christine McRae, Executive Director
Summer 2020

Christine McRae, Sept 2020

This webinar considered tools and methods to learn and teach about Indigenous cultures, languages, and territories. Through personal stories centered in their own experiences as educators, Cleary Vaughan-Lee, Executive Director of the Global Oneness Project, and Christine McRae, Executive Director of Native Land Digital, offered guidance on ways to bring Indigenous history and knowledge into teaching in a meaningful way. Classroom tips, strategies, and educator examples were shared which highlight specific methods to foster perspective-shifting and empathy into the classroom.
North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) : Our Home on Native Land: Connecting People and Stories using Indigenous Geographies
Native Land Digital is an Indigenous-led nonprofit based in Vancouver, British Columbia, dedicated to providing education about Indigenous peoples, territories, and knowledge systems in North America. Their free interactive platform, Native Land, is both a website and an app where you can enter your zip code or town to acknowledge and learn the names of the original Indigenous inhabitants of the land you live on.

Christine McRae, Executive Director and Rudo Kemper, Board of Directors - October 2020
Mapbox Lunchbox Livestream - Guest Dev, Inside Native Land
You may be familiar with the native-land.ca website being used in land acknowledgments or seen the colorful tapestry of Indigenous lands go viral on social media on Columbus day and Thanksgiving. What you may not know (yet!) is that Native Land is evolving as a not-for-profit organization, with an Indigenous Executive Director and majority Indigenous-led Board of Directors and Advisory Council who are passionate about thinking creatively and critically about using maps to share stories about Indigenous territories, challenge concepts linked to settler colonialism, and increase Indigenous community sovereignty over their own data. The goal of this presentation is to stimulate a lively discussion around what it means to map native lands from an Indigenous perspective.
https://www.mapbox.com/webinars/native-land-victor-temprano-mapster Michigan State University - Global Digital Humanities Symposium
Check out the archived livestream to see more about how Native Land works behind the scenes. November 2020.

Victor Temprano & Samantha Martin-Ferris, March 2019

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Native Land has been featured in many news outlets and interviews. We've included a few select examples here. We've also included a few videos or examples of presentations we've given to organizations that help to explain different aspects of the mission and history of Native Land Digital.

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Our ocean is our greatest asset. It gives us food, water and clean energy, and it needs our help.

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How's your water quality?

Did you know? According to WWF's Watersheds Report, over 60% of Canadian subwatersheds are so data poor, we don't even know if they're healthy or not. That's where you come in. We need your help to fill data gaps! We believe that crowdsourcing water quality data through community water monitoring is a great way to help scientists fill in gaps to achieve sustainable water monitoring.

How to start your own group
Visit the testkit store

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Did you know? According to WWF's Watersheds Report, over 60% of Canadian subwatersheds are so data poor, we don't even know if they're healthy or not. That's where you come in. We need your help to fill data gaps!