How do Indigenous knowledges shape environmental policy, governance, and science? How can a broader understanding of these knowledges reshape the future? Join scholars Wendy F. K’ah Skáahluwáa Todd (University of Minnesota Duluth) and Clint Carroll (University of Colorado Boulder) for a critical conversation about the challenges and possibilities of Indigenous approaches to ecosystem management, tribal land conservation practices, and knowledge sharing. In the context of settler practices and shifting climate conditions, Todd and Carroll draw on their community-based research in tribal communities (Haida and Cherokee, respectively) to demonstrate how Indigenous peoples are navigating access to plants, waters, and places, and the environmental changes that make Indigenous environmental knowledges and strategies both more critical than ever and more difficult to practice. Mona Smith—celebrated Dakota artist and storyteller—moderates.

Image credit: FINDINGS, findingsproject.com. Mural of “Everything Depends on Everything Else” by Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya. This mural of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) features three Haida matriarchs of the land, air, and water.