Starting a Conversation with Lindsay Dupré Fiddler: Indigenous Knowledge and Changing Environments

Join us in ART 368 (Institute for Community Engaged Research) or via Zoom (email: icer.ok@ubc.ca)

Abstract

Adaptation to change is central to an Indigenous ontology. Indigenous Knowledges have never been passive, rather they are active, dynamic, and have supported Indigenous societies to meet the challenges of changing environments for millennia. During this talk, Vanier Scholar Lindsay DuPré will discuss the pivotal role that families play in the activation of Indigenous Knowledges arguing that Home is both a site and mechanism for epistemological transformation. She will share preliminary results from her PhD research, weaving together lived experiences from her Métis-Cree Home with the perspectives of Elders and Knowledge Keepers from Waterhen Lake First Nation. 

Speaker

Lindsay DuPré Fiddler is a Métis scholar-practitioner, mom and auntie. She is a PhD candidate in Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies—Indigenous Knowledges at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. Lindsay’s work focuses on how Indigenous philosophies have been understood and adapted over time, and on addressing the power imbalances that continue to exist between Western and Indigenous science. In 2023, she received the prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, ranking in the top 25 of doctoral researchers recognized across Canada. Lindsay is a citizen of the Métis Nation of Saskatchewan and lives with her family in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Treaty 6 territory and Homeland of the Métis. 

Lindsay was a recipient of the ICER Student CER Award in 2025.