Gabriel Snowboy expresses his deep passion for storytelling and creative resilience through engaging bookseller events, literary discussions, workshops, and interactive panels.
November, 2018 • Ottawa, Ontario
Gabriel Snowboy is a speaker on this panel. He is from the Cree Nation of Chisasibi and is listed as President. He appears alongside Pitseolak Pfeifer and Dr. Krista Robson. The panel looks at Indigenous ways of knowing, meaning how First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples relate to the world around them through community practices, ritual, and relationships. It discusses how those approaches can be brought into applied research and science policy.
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October, 2020
This chapter is by Ioana Radu, Émilie Parent, Gabriel Snowboy, Bertie Wapachee, and Geneviève Beaulieu. It appears in the Routledge book Food for Degrowth: Perspectives and Practices. The authors place degrowth ideas inside an Indigenous food sovereignty framework. That framework draws attention to injustice in the food system. They look at how degrowth connects to decolonisation, and at how local agriculture and traditional foods can help the Cree Nation of Chisasibi achieve food security.
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December, 2018 • Chisasibi, Quebec
A Cree community project is reviving the potato farm on Fort George Island. The farm operated from the 1920s to the 1970s and was run by one of the island's residential schools. It grew mostly potatoes, along with other vegetables and, for a time, livestock. Greenhouse coordinator Gabriel Snowboy of the Chisasibi Business Service Centre planted two small fields in summer 2018 with student help. They harvested about 85 potatoes and several green onions. A larger field, 18 by 18 metres, is planned for summer 2019. The project is meant to preserve traditional food knowledge and address food insecurity.
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