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| "The Creator has given us the responsibility to protect the lands on which we were placed. We are to take care of and nurture everything that the Creator has given as a trust and duty to future generations of Pikangikum people.” - From Pikangikum People Sustaining Our Livelihood on the Land" |
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Our Strengths:
Decision Making
We have a Chief, a Deputy Chief and a First Nation Council of nine at Pikangikum. Our Chief and Council receive their mandate from the people through custom elections. Our Chief and Council are supported by customary community decision-making processes open to the larger community including our Community Assembly process (Onaashowaywinaniwung). In these customary assemblies, our community meets as a whole to deliberate upon significant issues.
The wisdom of Esteemed Elders (Kitchi' aa aayug) carries great weight in all of our decision-making. Our former Chief Louie Quill calls them the “decision-makers” of our First Nation. Our Whitefeather Forest Management Corporation President, Alex Peters, calls them his “capacity”.
 Consensus-based participatory decision-making is highly prized by our people. We are bringing our customary decision-making process, and especially our Elders, into our dealings with the outside world wherever we go. This is our best resource to build consensus through dialogue with people from the outside who have an interest in our Traditional Territories.
Our record of building consensus rather than conflict has been acknowledged by all of our partners in the Whitefeather Forest Initiative.
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