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Tasha Beeds is an Indigenous scholar of nêhiyaw, Scottish-Métis, and Bajan ancestry from the Treaty 6 territories of Saskatchewan. She activates as a mama, kôhkom, poet, Water Walker, and Midewiwin from Minweyweywigaan Lodge. Tasha’s collective work celebrates and promotes Indigenous nationhood and sovereignty. She advocates for the protection of Creation based on carrying ancestral legacies forward for future generations. Tasha is in her second year as the Ron Ianni Fellow at the University of Windsor’s Indigenous Legal Orders Institute. She is the inaugural Anako Indigenous Research Institute Scholar at Carleton University, a limited term Lecturer in Indigenous Studies at the University of Saskatchewan and a Na’ah Illahee Sovereign Futures Indigenous Environmental Leader. Having walked approximately 7000 kms for the Great Lakes and the Kawartha Lakes, Tasha recently led her first two Water Walks for Junction Creek in Sudbury and for the Saskatchewan River (year 1 of 4), continuing her late mentor Josephine-ba Mandamin’s legacy.