All Environmental Justice Events

“Indigenizing Coastal Conservation,” a virtual event asking what it means to place Indigenous knowledge and tribal sovereignty at the heart of conservation. Focusing on ongoing work to fight coastal erosion on the Pacific coast, this event engages a frank conversation with Native and non-Native ocean conservation practitioners grappling with the complexities of decolonizing the conservation movement and incorporating Indigenous worldviews effectively and appropriately with mainstream approaches.

SPEAKERS
* Dina Gilio-Whitaker (Colville Confederated Tribes), Lecturer of American Indian Studies at California State University San Marcos, independent educator in American Indian environmental policy, and Red Natural History Fellow
* Leah Mata-Fragua (yak titʸu titʸu yak tiłhini Chumash)
Artist, Educator and Council Member, YTT Northern Chumash Tribe
* Calla Allison, Founder and Executive Director of the Marine Protected Area Collaborative Network
* Gus Gates, West Coast Regional Director of the Surfrider Foundation

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Held on June 28, 2024, this webinar was curated by Dina Gilio-Whitaker as part of “Natural History for a World in Crisis,” a virtual programming series organized by Red Natural History Fellows with The Natural History Museum.

Made possible with support from the Henry Luce Foundation, Hewlett Foundation and 4Culture

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, 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 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