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What Comes After the Wilderness Act?

Bringing together historians, legal experts, and impacted community members, this Zoom roundtable explores how we should understand the Wilderness Act on its 60th anniversary—a moment both of Indigenous resurgence and a rising far right.

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Aquifer Defenders: Learning from Waadookawaad Amikwag

Uplifting the work of Waadookawaad Amikwag (Those Who Help Beaver), this Zoom Webinar explores how Indigenous knowledge and Western science can be mobilized to halt the destruction caused by pipelines, stop future projects, and protect the land and water for future generations–in Minnesota and beyond.

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Resisting the Global Land Grab

This Zoom webinar explores how histories of colonialism, apartheid and uneven development have set the terms for today’s “solutions” to ecological crisis, engaging not only the common conditions of oppression faced by Indigenous communities across the world, but also the solidarities they are forging in their shared struggle against neocolonial conservation—and for Land Back.

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Indigenizing Coastal Conservation

Focusing on ongoing work to fight coastal erosion on the Pacific coast, this panel engages a frank conversation with Native and non-Native ocean conservation practitioners grappling with the complexities of decolonizing and Indigenizing conservation.

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The Colorado River and the Colonial Blindspot

This panel explores the role that Western science plays in naturalizing the colonial intrusions that produced the contemporary water crisis on the Colorado River, revealing solutions to the crisis that are unimaginable from the settler-colonial view.

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