Nations Royalty – Building Indigenous Wealth
Date/Time: Monday, November 2 | 11:30am
Location: Carlton Room
Tahltan Nation Abstract
Speaker: Kody Penner
Indigenous Nations across Canada are increasingly seeking ways to transform resource development within their territories into meaningful, short and long-term wealth and economic independence. Nations Royalty was created to advance a new model of Indigenous participation in the resource sector, one that moves beyond traditional benefits and creates lasting ownership and financial participation.
We’ll explore how Indigenous-owned royalties can provide Nations with long-term exposure to resource projects while creating diversified and sustainable revenue streams for present and future generations. Drawing on real-world examples and the experience of Nations Royalty, the presentation will examine how existing royalty interests can be brought together within a publicly traded company, creating potential for liquidity, diversification, growth, and continued Indigenous ownership.
The presentation will also discuss the broader evolution of Indigenous economic participation in Canada’s natural resource sector, including the shift from consultation and impact benefit agreements toward equity ownership, royalties, partnerships, and Indigenous-led investment.
Speakers
Kody Penner, Tahltan Nation
Kody Penner is a mining professional with diverse experience in the mining industry and Indigenous space. He has helped create strategy and drive value for Indigenous governments and business while building lasting, sustainable relationships. With experience working in junior and major mining companies, he brings a collaborative approach to decision making, aligning values of rights and stakeholders toward common goals.
He advanced from an underground miner to a strategy role at Canada’s largest diversified miner and is currently the Chief Development Officer for Nations Royalty, Canada’s first Majority Indigenous owned public company.
He is a Tahltan First Nation member and past Vice-Chair of the Tahltan Nation Development Corporation, where he helped lead the company through major strategic and operational changes by enhancing governance and management structures.
Chair
Linda Murphy, Apiichitaa
Linda Murphy BSc., P.Geo; is the founder and owner of Apiichitaa Inc.,an Indigenous-owned company that works with Indigenous groups and any business, education institution, professional association, company and or government jurisdiction that may engage with Indigenous groups.
As a member of Hollow Water First Nation, a professional geoscientist, and an entrepreneur, Linda envisions empathy, equity and mindful engagement between all other organizations, institutions, and jurisdictions who work in the Homeland and/or Treaty Territory of Indigenous Rights holders.
She has more than 20 year’s experience in the public sector (Prov of Manitoba) and private sector (mineral industry). In operating Apiichitaa she workis on diverse projects from land use plans to facilitating job readiness courses, and in development of inclusive education and regulatory policy to grow a successful future for First Nations, Metis and Inuit Peoples.