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Dear Editor:
I write to you today from my homeland-Kamchatka-in need of your friendship and guidance. My people are struggling with environmental degradation and an underdeveloped legislative base that offers little support and recognition to Indigenous peoples.
Our beautiful volcanic land is a fish-shaped peninsula, and if you look at a map you will find a land that is situated north of Japan and west of Alaska. So, it is Russia, the Russian Far East.
We are calling upon Canadian Aboriginal peoples to share their knowledge and experience with us so we can raise our cultural profile and protect our local natural environment. We want to build relationships with Canadian Aboriginal peoples who are more advanced in environmental stewardship, and more empowered within Canada-and the world-than we are in our own land.
Specifically, we will be grateful if the people from Canada can share with us their own thoughts and experience on fostering sustainable development in our community using our traditional skills; overcoming administrative barriers, and the strategies needed to cope with the struggles along the way; developing a legislative base; successful grant and fundraising strategies; organizing cross-cultural exchange visits between Canadian and Kamchatka people.
Zhanna Dolgan
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