A Global Environmental Crisis, Indigenous Rights & Participatory Indigenous Research Models
537 Heller Hall
Abstract: This brief overview will explore multiple scales of applied Indigenous research models, policy development, partnership building, and resources dedicated to affirming the critical roles Indigenous communities play in the development of their own rights with a particular focus on Indigenous Peoples' water rights (Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples).
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About the Speaker
Wakinyan LaPointe is a Ph.D. student in American Studies (ICGC Fellow). Mr. LaPointe holds a Master's in Nonprofit Management from Hamline University and a Bachelor's of Political Science from the UMN. He is an alumnus of the United Nations OHCHR Indigenous Fellowship Programme '23 (Geneva, Switzerland). His research interests include Indigenous rights, specifically, Indigenous water rights; Indigenous participatory research models, advocacy, and environmental policy development. Since 2017, Mr. LaPointe has developed an Indigenous water rights program, MKW. Since 2014, he has engaged in Indigenous human rights campaigns, policy recommendations, UN mechanisms, and has built transnational Indigenous partnerships focused on Indigenous water rights.