ABSTRACT

How can Indigenous peoples and practitioners engage Impact Assessment as a collaborative learning process that enables communities to affect and influence the design of development projects and their management systems? How to create conversations between Indigenous peoples in order to craft a message/voice in relation to developers? This article summarizes lessons learned from ‘Aashukan’ an Indigenous exchange organized on James Bay Cree lands, Northern Québec, Canada in conjunction with the IAIA Conference in 2017. It presents the context, objectives, processes, and outcomes of this workshop in relation to the Impact Assessment community and discusses future directions.

摘要

土著人民和从业者如何将影响评估作为一种协作学习过程，使社区能够影响和影响开发项目及其管理系统的设计？如何在原住民之间建立对话，以传达与开发人员相关的信息/声音？本文总结了在 2017 年与 IAIA 会议一起在加拿大魁北克北部詹姆斯湾克里地区组织的土著交流活动“Aashukan”中吸取的经验教训。它介绍了本次研讨会的背景、目标、过程和成果影响评估社区并讨论未来的方向。