Co-sponsored with The Nature Conservancy. This panel was part of Nature’s Climate Hub in New York in September 2019. It grounded participants in Indigenous worldviews of reciprocity and interconnectedness with nature and highlighted more sustainable paradigms from Indigenous knowledge and leaders, presenting concrete examples where Indigenous worldviews, stewardship, and on-the-ground guardianship are at work to protect carbon-rich forests and other ecosystem vital to avoiding unlivable climate change. It emphasized the need for more inclusive collaborations that engage Indigenous leaders and processes that amplify the voices of Indigenous peoples.
Speakers included:
Ruchatneet Printup, Tuscarora Language Committee (Tuscarora Nation)
Neil Patterson, Jr., Assistant Director, Center for Native Peoples and the Environment (Tuscarora Nation)
Elsina Truer, Haudenosaunee Youth Delegation
Peter Thais, Haudenosaunee Youth Delegation
Cassandra Minard, Haudenosaunee Youth Delegation
Makiyah Lazore, Haudenosaunee Youth Delegation
Eli Enns, President, Iisaak Olam Foundation (Nuu-Chah-Nulth)
Bernadette Demientieff, Executive Director, Gwich'in Steering Committee (Gwich'yaa Gwich'in)
Ta'Kaiya Blaney, Youth activist (Tla'Amin First Nation)
