EDGES alumna Dr. Nicole J. Wilson was awarded a Mitacs Elevate post-doctoral fellowship to conduct research in partnership with Carcross/Tagish First Nation. The project will develop strategies to implement Chapter 14 of the First Nation’s land claim agreement based on their traditional water laws. She is working under the supervision of Gordon Christie in the Peter A. Allard School of Law at UBC.
Nicole finished her PhD in May 2018, with her doctoral dissertation titled “”More precious than gold”: Indigenous water governance in the context of Modern land claims in Yukon.” It can be read here.