Network Purpose
The Indigenous Great Lakes Network Initiative (IGLNi) serves as a resource hub for members and representatives of Indigenous communities, Nations, Tribes and organizations, with the aim of facilitating collaboration and knowledge-sharing to advance Indigenous research and monitoring priorities in the Great Lakes region.
Network Intentions
The Indigenous Great Lakes Network Initiative (IGLNi) serves as a resource hub for members and representatives of Indigenous communities, Nations, Tribes and organizations, with the aim of facilitating collaboration and knowledge-sharing to advance Indigenous research and monitoring priorities in the Great Lakes region.
Network Intentions
- Fostering Connection and Collaboration: To act as a central hub that fosters connection between Indigenous communities, Nations, Tribes and organizations around the Laurentian Great Lakes.
- Funding Support and Resource Accessibility: To provide network members with the resources they have identified as being necessary to address obstacles faced when it comes to accessing resources needed to advance and pursue their environmental research and monitoring priorities.
- Inclusivity and Transparency in Network Structure: To ensure that the network’s decision-making processes (e.g., priorities, vision, mandate, funding) are transparent, fair, and accountable, and to work for and support individual members (communities, Nations, Tribes, and organizations) as well as the collective.
- Intergenerational Knowledge Sharing and Sustainable, Indigenous-led and Indigenous-focused Initiatives: To create, promote, and support opportunities for youth to actively engage in environmental research and monitoring initiatives.
- Training, Capacity-Building, and Community-focused Sustainability: To assist in building or connecting network members with the right people, skills and expertise to support environmental research or monitoring.