Join us for 3 days of inspiring presentations and networking with Blackfoot environmental leaders. The 11th Annual KEPA Summit celebrates Ksaahkomma ki Sokinaapi, Environment and Health.
1, 2 or 3 day registration options are available
Agenda
Wednesday June 11, 2025
Location: Issoitapi Elementary School, Lavern, Highway 505, (close to Village of Glenwood)
MC Tony Delaney
7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Pipe Ceremony – Peter Weasel Moccasin / Mike Bruised Head
9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Opening Prayer - Peter Weasel Moccasin
Welcome - Chief Travis Plaited Hair and Councillor Elliot Fox
Mike Bruised Head, KEPA Chair
Honouring Charlie Crow Chief
9:30 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Guided tour of Issoitapi School
10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Health Break
10:30 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. Niitsitapi Scholar Panel - Blair Many Fingers, Camina Weasel Moccasin, Katira Crow Shoe. Moderator Melissa Quesnelle
11:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Health Break
11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Tatsikiisaapo’p Middle School Student Panel
Moderator Shawna Goodstriker
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Lunch Sponsored by Kainai Board of Education
Naming Ceremonies
1:00 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. Kainai High School Panel
Moderator Ruby Tailfeathers
1:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Blackfeet Community College Panel
Moderator Helen Augere-Carlson
3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. Health Break
3:15 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Health of the Oldman Watershed, Shannon Frank, Oldman Watershed Council
4:00 p.m. Closing remarks - Api’soomaahka
Vendors welcome by donation.
Thursday June 12, 2025
Location: river valley near Thunder Chief, highway 509
8:30 a.m. Iinii (buffalo) Harvest (tentative)
Other activities on site:
Archery presentation - Kevin Healy (tentative)
Hide tanning demonstration - (tentative)
Traditional Games - Shane McDougall (confirmed)
Quijos cultural presentation - guests from Ecuador (confirmed)
Many Spotted Horses Medicine Wheel (tentative)
Atlatl Throwing - Dylan Frank and Joseph Many Fingers (confirmed)
Outdoors. Bring your own chair, water and lunch.
Friday June 13, 2025
Location: Waterton Community Centre
MC Tony Delaney
8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Opening Prayer - Beverly Hungry Wolf
Welcome - Waterton Park Superintendent Carmen Hancock
Bill Dolan, Waterton Biosphere Region
9:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. Stories of Beeseekseenaiks ki Naamskiiks, Niitsitapi bio-logical Anthropology – Starr Hungry Wolf Cardinal
9:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Health Break
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Chakra (Forest Gardens) and Ancestral Knowledge of the Quijos Nation - Lourdes Jipa, Roxana Tanguila, Gonzalo Alvarado, Quijos Nation – Sacha Awana, Ecuador
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Indigenous Plant Science Curriculum – Opokaa'sin Students
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Lunch Sponsored by Naapi’s Garden
Film screening - Dry Horizons: Stewarding a Future for Southern Alberta’s Water, Jaclyn Angotti
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Nurturing Health of Soil by Listening to its Story - Henry Janzen, Katherine Lawless, David Janzen and Ed Gregorich
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Ancestral Seeds and Regenerative Agriculture: Cultivating a Sustainable Future in Harmony with Mother Nature, Ines Cuj Chopen and Patrik Mucia Poz, Kachiquel Maya / Mesoamerican Institute for Permaculture (IMAP) - Guatemala
3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. Health Break
3:15 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Closing Remarks - Melissa Quesnelle and Kansie Fox
5:00 p.m. Post Event Entertainment:
Roxana Tanguila, Ecuador
Olivia Tailfeathers and Grassland Singers
(outdoors on lawn, bring chair)
Information Source: Oldman Watershed Council | eventbrite

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