Muiwatmnej Etuaptmumk: “Two-Eyed Seeing Fom Vision to Action”

Abstract

 This special issue was inspired by a conference held in Membertou, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, in the fall of 2023. The conference, Muiwatmnej Etuaptmumk: “Two-Eyed Seeing From Vision to Action,” was organized by the Bras d’Or Lakes Collaborative Environmental Planning Initiative (CEPI) and its secretariat Unama’ki Institute of Natural Resources (UINR). The conference’s primary motivation was to honour and celebrate the work and words of Dr. Albert Marshall and his late wife, Dr. Murdena Marshall, who were both Elders in Eskasoni, as well as to celebrate their friend and collaborator Dr. Cheryl Bartlett. Being guided by the principles of Etuaptmumk/Two-Eyed Seeing was one of the eight lessons in their collaborative co-learning journey (Bartlett et al., 2012).¹ The presentations delivered at the conference, and the articles in this special issue, demonstrate this lesson’s appeal.