All Indigenous Ways of Relating 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.

In this short video, The Natural History Museum’s Jason Jones explains what “red natural history” means for him, arguing that red natural history must represent an active challenge to the dominant tradition of natural history. He explores the problems this concept confronts and the connections it makes possible, proposing that, as a name for a counter-tradition of natural history, red natural history threads together histories of non-capitalist and anti-colonial thought and action, offering resources for us to see and relate to the world as a world in common, beyond capitalist domination and control.

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


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“The Colorado River and the Colonial Blindspot”, a virtual event exploring the complicated entanglements of history, science, and sovereignty within the context of the Colorado River—past, present and future. Featuring Diné geographer and Red Natural History Fellow Andrew Curley in conversation with other scholars and activists, we explore solutions to the water crisis that break from the colonial paradigm.

SPEAKERS
* Andrew Curley (Diné), Assistant Professor in the School of Geography, Development, and Environment at the University of Arizona, and Red Natural History Fellow
* Teresa Montoya (Diné), Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago
* Traci Brynne Voyles, Professor and Department Head of History, North Carolina State University
* Erika M. Bsumek, Professor of History at the University of Texas

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Held on March 24, 2024, this webinar is part of “Natural History for a World in Crisis”, a virtual programming series organized by Red Natural History Fellows with The Natural History Museum.