(Optional) Location: Migizii Agamik Bald Eagle Lodge

Chairs: Myrle Ballard and Dr. Miguel Uyaguari ________________ Keynote: Dr. Jeannette Armstrong, University of British Columbia, Canada - A Syilx Language Perspective ________________ Coffee Break________________ Dr. Jesse Popp, University of Guelph, Canada - Weaving Ways of Knowing Among the Trees ________________ Dr. Maria (Yolanda) Teran, University of New Mexico, USA - The role of Indigenous languages in the conservation of biodiversity ________________ Dr. Wilfred Buck, Indigenous star lore expert, member of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation. - MIKINAK MINISTIK ACIMOWINUK: Turtle Island Narratives

Chairs: Ayush Kumar, Melanie Lalonde ________________ Keynote: Dr. Nicole Redvers, University of North Dakota, USA - The Science of the Sacred: Reflections through Land-Based Healing ________________ Coffee Break ________________ Dr. Darrel Manitowabe, Northern School of Medicine, Canada - Mino-Bimaadizwin: Indigenous Preventive Medicine and Public Health ________________ Dr. Marcia Anderson, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Canada - Indigenous Science, Teachings, and Public Health

Developing an Indigenous Higher Education Engineering Curriculum

Surveillance of drinking water in First Nation communities occurrence of bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes.