Rosalyn LaPier (Blackfeet/MĂ©tis) is an environmental historian, traditional ecological knowledge practitioner, and one of The Natural History Museum’s inaugural Red Natural History Fellows. In this short video, Rosalyn argues that “red natural history” presents an opportunity for Indigenous people to define a practice of natural history that is aligned with their traditions of knowledge and relation to land.
Edited transcript of the full interview: https://bit.ly/RNH-red-is-sacred
As one of The Natural History Museum’s inaugural Red Natural History Fellows, geographer Kai Bosworth has spent the past decade studying the landscape of contemporary environmentalism, exploring the tenuous alliances formed in opposition to pipeline infrastructure in the Midwest. In this short video, Bosworth explains how radical geographic practices were developed in response to his discipline’s imperialist history, drawing critical lessons for emergent practices of “red natural history.”
Edited transcript of the full interview: https://bit.ly/RNH-red-line
In this short video, Ashley Dawson explains a dissenting tradition within natural history that is capable of cracking open natural history’s imperialist discourses. Finding inspiration in the anarchist tradition, Dawson explores how Peter Kropotkin’s treatise on Mutual Aid troubles the social Darwinist understanding of evolution as a “struggle of each against all,” revealing another story of evolutionary time, grounded not in a logic of competition, but in the collective forms of life that allow human and other-than-human species to survive in times of upheaval.
Edited transcript of the full interview: https://bit.ly/RNH-mutual-aid
As a writer, educator, and one of The Natural History Museum’s inaugural Red Natural History Fellows, Dina Gilio-Whitaker (Colville Confederated Tribes) is exploring the challenge of Indigenizing environmental justice, developing a clear-eyed vision of an environmental justice that has traditional knowledge and Tribal sovereignty at its heart. In this short video, Dina makes the case for why Native rights and Indigenous knowledge benefit everybody, arguing that Native values of relationality, reciprocity, respect respect and responsibility are key to the survivability the ecosystems we inhabit.
As one of The Natural History Museum’s inaugural Red Natural History Fellows, Diné geographer Andrew Curley is examining the contestation of water rights within the Colorado River basin. In this short video, Curley discusses the colonial structures that shape mainstream trends in environmental science, asking how academic research cultures and institutional practices contribute to the replication of settler-colonial relations in the United States.
Edited transcript of the full interview: https://bit.ly/colonialscape
