Featured News

Guest User Guest User

Wolastoqey Nation Launches Anti-discrimination Program on GeoKeeper

Wolastoqey Nation in New Brunswick launched a GeoKeeper program as a tool for reporting harassment, racism and discrimination. The program provides a customised reporting form that can be filled in and sent to WNNB, as well as reference map layers so that land users can check land designation.

Read More
Guest User Guest User

Presenting on “Achieving Indigenous Data Sovereignty” at the AAA Annual Meeting

In November 2022, Towagh Behr presented at the American Anthropological Association (AAA)’s Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA. His presentation, “Achieving Indigenous Data Sovereignty,” illustrated how community-managed systems like the CKK, with data owned, accessible, and protected by the community, support Indigenous data sovereignty.

Read More
Guest User Guest User

GeoKeeper monitoring work in Peace-Athabasca Delta featured on CBC

The Kwusen team is excited to see the important work of the Indigenous monitors in the Peace-Athabasca Delta highlighted on the national level in a CBC article. We’ve had the privilege of working with the Athabasca Chipewyan and Mikisew Cree First Nations on their Community-based Monitoring programs through GeoKeeper for over 7 years.

Read More
Guest User Guest User

Kwusen co-produced documentary film airing at DOXA

Kwusen is excited that DƏNE YI'INJETL - The Scattering of Man is airing this weekend at the DOXA Film Festival. The film tells the Tsay Keh Dene’s story of the flooding of their territory from BC Hydro’s construction of the W.A.C. Bennett Dam in 1968.

Read More
Guest User Guest User

Reflecting on OCAP Principles: Ownership, Control, Access, and Possession

From his research work with Indigenous communities, Towagh Behr, Kwusen Director of Research & Operations, saw the opportunity for emerging technologies to help address issues surrounding research and data management when he started software development work back in 2009. Kwusen developed the Community KnowledgeKeeper (CKK) to facilitate access to, and protection of, Indigenous research data through a community-controlled digital platform.

Read More
Guest User Guest User

Repatriation work from RBCM with Ahousaht

In the spring of 2019, Towagh Behr and Alissa Cartwright had the opportunity to work with the Ahousaht First Nation to repatriate important language recordings and oral history interviews from the Royal BC Museum (RBCM).

Read More
Guest User Guest User

Kwusen principal Towagh Behr presents to the AER

In March of 2021, Towagh Behr led a presentation to the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) entitled “Traditional Land Use Studies: Context, Methods, and Role in Environmental Assessments.” It was an interesting opportunity to share Kwusen’s understanding of Indigenous Rights in relation to the Environmental Assessment (EA) process.

Read More
Guest User Guest User

Celebrating 10 Years of Supporting Indigenous Communities

Kwusen is celebrating our 10th Anniversary! As we near the end of 2020, we at Kwusen are reflecting on the company’s growth, relationships fostered, and milestones achieved over a decade of working with and for Indigenous communities throughout Canada.

Read More
Guest User Guest User

UVic Anthropology Class

Towagh Behr, assisted by Alissa Cartwright, recently taught an upper-level Anthropology class at the University of Victoria called “Applied and Community-Based Anthropology.” The class consisted of seventeen students from varying areas of study, including environmental science, political science, anthropology, and history.

Read More