“This seeming chaos belies the tight web of interconnections between them all, stitched with filaments of fungi, silk of spiders, and silver threads of water.
Alone is a word without meaning in this forest…”
Robin Wall Kimmerer
ICEDAR
Indigenous Collaborative for Education, Development, Advocacy, and Reciprocity
Our Work
ICEDAR is a platform (website and upcoming app) that facilitates connecting, collaborating, and partnering with Indigenous communities. It brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous people to learn, connect, share, and support one another.
ICEDAR also invites, gathers, and celebrates the important work done on multiple fronts with and for Indigenous peoples and reconciliation.
Learn
Learn with and from each other, about Indigenous interests and the events, resources, and discussions that bring relevance and life to them.
Connect
Connect with other persons, groups and organizations working with and for Indigenous interests and priorities.
Share
Share events that you are organizing, wanting to attend with others or that you experienced. Upload resources you would recommend and job postings or volunteer opportunities.
Support
Support Indigenous interests and priorities by giving your time, knowledge, skills, and resources. Build the necessary relationships and enact reconciliation.
Working with gratitude and respect on the ancestral, unceded, and territories of First Nations across B.C.
ICEDAR was first created on these beautiful lands, with funds from UBC’s Indigenous Strategic Plan
Our Seed
ICEDAR is a tool to make truth and reconciliation actionable and contribute to the necessary transformation.
Through our actions, we support and uplift each other to transform the world we are leaving behind for the seven generations to come.
We invite you to bring your knowledge, your skills, your needs, and your dreams, to strengthen the collective, celebrate our gifts, and contribute to restoring balance within our communities and the Land we all live from.
As guests on Coast Salish Nations’ Territories, ICEDAR recognizes and acknowledges the harms, land dispossession, and violence that Indigenous peoples continue to live through. We respond by taking responsibility, actioning, and sustaining relationships of solidarity, with guidance from the Indigenous community on what that looks like. No contribution is small, and all are necessary and important.
“The path is made by walking.”