Science and Research committee  My role in COSEWIC is on the aboriginal traditional knowledge subcommittee. There are two of us who were identified by the Assembly of First Nations to be put forward to the minister for appointments. I was appointed by the Minister of Environment. I have served at least three terms on the committee.

Science and Research committee  The reason I started with that was to really underpin the idea that knowledge institutions are convened and developed by first nations people who are living in situ on their lands and working on various ways to make sure that their lands are healthy and producing the resources that they have a right to.

Science and Research committee  The reason I was mentioning the En’owkin Centre as an institute of higher learning is that it's mandated by the chiefs of the Okanagan to make sure that our knowledge and our language and our ways of knowing on the land are included in everything that they're working on, particularly the environment.

Science and Research committee  Thank you very much. Way̓ taliʔ x̌ast sx̌alx̌alt. In my language, that's greetings and that means it's a really good day. The main thrust of my presentation is really to talk about how the conflicts between the two knowledge systems were resolved through two projects I was involved in.