Steven Nitah

Steven Nitah is the Managing Director for Canada at Nature for Justice, and a specialist in Aboriginal and Treaty Constitutional Rights, Negotiations, and Relationship Building with Indigenous Peoples. Steven is a member and former tribal chief of the Łutsël K’é Dene First Nation, and served as the Nations’ lead negotiator in the creation of the Thaidene Nëné Indigenous Protected Area—“The Land of the Ancestors”. He was also a core member of the Indigenous Circle of Experts, contributing to the historic report, “We Rise Together”, which presents a pathway for achieving Canada’s conservation targets through “the creation of Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas in the spirit and practice of reconciliation”.