Indigenous Engagement
The Cascadia Partner Forum has adopted five, overarching principles for its engagement with Indigenous governments, organizations and community members throughout development and implementation of the Blueprint for a Resilient Cascadia
Overarching principles
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Responsibility. We are responsible for the content and character of our relationships. We meet our commitments.
Reciprocity. We ensure that we are always bringing value to Tribes and First Nations.
Relevance. Our work will be considered in relationship to tribal priorities, as well as our own. We will always work on building collective relevance
Relationality. We commit long-term to the development of mutually beneficial relationships.
Funding. Funding may be required to engage with Tribes and First Nation.
Further Principles for Indigenous Engagement
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Tribal and First Nations peoples have within their communities the information necessary to effectively inform climate change adaptation.
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Tribal and First Nations communities may have capacity challenges that we will endeavor to address when we make requests.
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Information from Tribal and First Nations peoples will likely contain insights that inform the process of co-development, the interpretation of climate impacts and mitigation and adaptation strategies.
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Tribal and First Nations may have differing priorities to be analyzed which may need to be incorporated in a future working group.
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Holistic thinking and understanding is complex and we will do our best to understand it.
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Indigenous climate knowledge may be contained in Indigenous law and not able to be effectively integrated with science.
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We will continue to build our understanding of our partners through learning and communicating. This could include courses, training, meetings, workshops and other activities.