About this Event
Sturgeon are among the oldest living fish in our water systems, they can tell us a lot about the health of our waterways. Protecting Sturgeon and understanding our relationship with them is about protecting freshwater systems that sustain communities, ecosystems.
Presenter Taylor Galvin is a proud Anishinaabe woman from Brokenhead Ojibway Nation and a member of the Sturgeon Clan. She is a graduate student at the University of Manitoba where her thesis explores Lake Sturgeon conservation through Indigenous science, oral storytelling, and community-based knowledge.
Taylor serves as the Brokenhead Wetland Ecological Reserve Chair and is the community coordinator for an Indigenous-led environmental monitoring project in Tataskweyak Cree Nation. She is a lifelong student of many Elders and Knowledge Keepers across Manitoba. She walks in both worlds, using Western and Indigenous sciences to guide her work in land guardianship, ceremony, and environmental protection.
Event venue & nearby stays
Westworth United Church, 1750 Grosvenor Avenue, Winnipeg, Canada
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