Akiikaa: Land-Based Learning and Indigenous Health

• In Event: Experiential Learning in Environmental History: Diversity from Margin to Center

Abstract

Professor Angela Mashford-Pringle (Algonquin/Timiskaming FN) discusses their role directing a two-week residency focused on land-based learning co-taught with Elders and Knowledge Keepers as part of the Master of Public Health in Indigenous Health (MPH-IH), a graduate degree program. Mashford-Pringle will speak about how the project is part of their broader efforts to center Akiikaa or land-based learning within indigenous health.

Bio: Dr. Angela Mashford-Pringle is Algonquin (Timiskaming First Nation/Bear Clan). She is Associate Director at the Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. As the Indigenous Health Lead for DLSPH, she oversees the new Indigenous Post-Doctoral Fellowship program. She worked for over a decade at the federal government in Indigenous initiatives. Angela is the Director of the Master of Public Health – Indigenous Health program (MPH-IH), and Founding Editor of the Turtle Island Journal on Indigenous Health (TIJIH). She works with Indigenous communities with issues related to Indigenous health including cultural safety, land-based learning, climate action, and policy analysis and development. For more information on Dr. Mashford-Pringle, please visit the AMP Lab website.

Author

• Angela Mashford-Pringle, University of Toronto