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.
