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“Resisting the Global Land Grab,” a virtual event exploring 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.

SPEAKERS
* Krystal Two Bulls (Oglala Lakota/Cheyenne), Executive Director of Honor the Earth
* Nnimmo Bassey, Nigerian architect, environmental activist, author, poet, and Director of the environmental think tank Health of Mother Earth Foundation
* Ashley Dawson, Distinguished Professor of Postcolonial Studies at the Graduate Center, City University of New York and the College of Staten Island and Red Natural History Fellow

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Held on July 18, 2024, this webinar was curated by Ashley Dawson 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.

Natural History for a World in Crisis

“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.

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