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This article shares Indigenous pedagogical and epistemological insights from two of a series of Indigenous land-based workshops designed to promote Indigenous Nation-to-Nation engagement for the activation of the governance value of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in climate action and socio-ecological restoration. The workshops were designed by the Kainai Ecosystem Protection Association (KEPA, Blackfoot Confederacy) who hosted Kaqchikel Maya researchers from the Mesoamerican Permaculture Institute for inter-cultural storytelling and knowledge exchange and transmission. We suggest that the platform that these workshops created privileged Indigenous knowledge production and transmission while de-centering Western ones, thereby creating an ethical space that promoted Indigenous research sovereignty. By framing this engagement as a form of climate action achieved through treatymaking, the Indigenous participants illustrated how the pathway to socio-ecological restoration is to be achieved through healing relationships with All Our Beings.
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