Social Return Projects

Click on the icons in the map above to learn more about the Social Return projects Firelight has funded. Below is a complete list of projects Firelight has funded to date.

2019

• ?Esdilagh First Nation – Food Fight, Traditional Food Workshop
• Cowichan Tribes – Intangible
  Cultural Heritage of Cowichan Tribes Core Territory
• SkeenaWild Conservation Trust – Salmon Stories for Change: A Theatrical Performance Tour and Archival Collection from Transboundary Alaskan Indigenous People
• Lakeland Metis Community – Lakeland Métis Community Credible Assertion of Métis Rights – Documenting Geological History
• Lamothe – Testing for Mercury in Fraser Basin Sediment in Relation to Placer Gold Mining

2018

• Okanagan Indian Band – Costing Assessment for Komasket Outdoor Arbor Revitalization
• Penelakut First Nation – Penelakut First Nation Trail Development for Education, Recreation, and Ethnobotany
• Westbank First Nation – Westbank First Nation – Replanting Traditional Plant Species in the Syilx Traditional Territory
• Mosquoy – Mosqoy –  Curriculum Development: Intergenerational Cultural & Gender Empowerment
• Teetł’it Gwich’in – Ganah Khoonatan – Gwich’in Land-based Learning in Teetł’it Zheh – Connecting Youth to the Land
• Indigenous Mapping Workshop (IMW) – 2018 IMW Montreal
• National Indigenous Survivors of Child Welfare Network- Geolive Project: Sharing the Life Stories of those Affected by the Sixties Scoop
• Canary Research Institute – Report on Mining and Water Quality Standards Project

2017

• Kwikwetlem First Nation – Kwikwetlem First Nation, Reclaiming Our Medicines: Community Capacity Building Around Traditional Plants
• Tsawout First Nation – Tsawout First Nation, Traditional Foods Knowledge Transfer and Indigenous Foods Gathering
• Dasiqox Tribal Park – Dasiqox Tribal Park – Talking to the Land: Tsilhqot’in Traditional Knowledge Transfer
• Matachewan First Nation – Matachewan First Nation, Elder Teachings on the Land
• Stellat’en First Nation – Stellat’en First Nation, Stellat’en Head Start Dakelh Language Guide
• Tłı̨chǫ Government – Tłı̨chǫ Puberty Rites of Passage and Ceremonies
• Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation – Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation, Preserving Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in knowledge and practice: Documenting the construction and use of a fish wheel in the Yukon
• Westbank First Nation – Westbank First Nation, Syilx Forestry Standards Toolkit
• Indigenous Mapping Workshop (IMW) – 2017 IMW Winnipeg

2016

• Fort Nelson First Nation – Cabin Building
• Musgamagw Dzawada’enuxw Tribal Council (MDTC) – Trapper’s Cabin: Revitalizing and Building Family-Owned Trap Lines
• Ktunaxa Nation Council – Ktunaxa Archival Study
• Indigenous Mapping Workshop (IMW) – 2016 IMW Vancouver
• Tłı̨chǫ Government – Tłı̨chǫ Birthplace Mapping
• Doig River First Nation – Cumulative Effects Workshop

2015

• Nakazdli Indian Band – Nakadzldli: Re-awaken The Nyanwhutni Trail
• Sauteau First Nations (SFN) – Saulteau First Nation Ethnobotanical Handbook for Land Reclamation and Knowledge Transfer
• Chapleau Cree – Cultural Program Expansion
• Indigenous Mapping Workshop (IMW) – 2015 IMW Waterloo
• UBC – GeoLive Referrals Toolkit
• Lake Babine First Nation – Babine Solidary in Protecting our Families from Pipeline Impacts

2014

• Athabaskan Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) – ACFN Graves and Historic Sites Restoration
• Ktunaxa Nation Council – Qatmuk Culture Camp: Elder Teachings on the Land
• Indigenous Mapping Workshop (IMW) – 2014 IMW Victoria
• Yukon IBA Workshop