scholarly journals Indigenous Science, Climate Change, and Indigenous Community Building: A Framework of Foundational Perspectives for Indigenous Community Resilience and Revitalization

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (22) ◽  
pp. 9569
Author(s):  
Gregory A. Cajete
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Science Education ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Indigenous Community ◽  
Personal View ◽  
Indigenous Science

This essay presents an overview of foundational considerations and perceptions which collectively form a framework for thinking about Indigenous community building in relationship to the tasks of addressing the real challenges, social issues, and consequences of climate change. The ideas shared are based on a keynote address given by the author at the International Conference on Climate Change, Indigenous Resilience and Local Knowledge Systems: Cross-time and Cross-boundary Perspectives held at the National Taiwan University on 13–14 December 2019. The primary audience for this essay is Indigenous Peoples and allies of Indigenous Peoples who are actively involved in climate change studies, sustainable community building, and education. As such, it presents the author’s personal view of key orientations for shifting current paradigms by introducing an Indigenized conceptual framework of community building which can move Indigenous communities toward revitalization and renewal through strategically implementing culturally responsive Indigenous science education, engaging sustainable economics and sustainability studies. As an Indigenous scholar who has maintained an insider perspective and has worked extensively with community members around issues of culturally responsive science education, the author challenges all concerned to take Indigenous science seriously as an ancient body of applied knowledge for sustaining communities and ensuring survival over time and through generations. The author also challenges readers to initiate new thinking about how to use Indigenous science, community building, and education as a tool and a body of knowledge which may be integrated with appropriate forms of Western science in new and creative ways that serve to sustain and ensure survival rather than perpetuate unexamined Western business paradigms of community development.

Indigenous climate change adaptation: New directions for emerging scholarship

2021 ◽  
pp. 251484862110224
Author(s):  
Danielle Emma Johnson ◽  
Meg Parsons ◽  
Karen Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Small Body ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Cultural Continuity ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Indigenous Development

Although Indigenous peoples’ perspectives and concerns have not always been accommodated in climate change adaptation research and practice, a burgeoning literature is helping to reframe and decolonise climate adaptation in line with Indigenous peoples’ lived experiences. In this review, we bring together climate adaptation, decolonising and intersectional scholarship to chart the progress that has been made in better analysing and responding to climate change in Indigenous contexts. We identify a wealth of literature helping to decolonise climate adaptation scholarship and praxis by attending to colonial and neo-colonial injustices implicated in Indigenous peoples’ climate vulnerability, taking seriously Indigenous peoples’ relational ontologies, and promoting adaptation that draws on Indigenous capacities and aspirations for self-determination and cultural continuity. Despite calls to interrogate heterogenous experiences of climate change within Indigenous communities, the decolonising climate and adaptation scholarship has made limited advances in this area. We examine the small body of research that takes an intersectional approach to climate adaptation and explores how the multiple subjectivities and identities that Indigenous peoples occupy produce unique vulnerabilities, capacities and encounters with adaptation policy. We suggest the field might be expanded by drawing on related studies from Indigenous development, natural resource management, conservation, feminism, health and food sovereignty. Greater engagement with intersectionality works to drive innovation in decolonising climate adaptation scholarship and practice. It can mitigate the risk of maladaptation, avoid entrenchment of inequitable power dynamics, and ensures that even the most marginal groups within Indigenous communities benefit from adaptation policies and programmes.

scholarly journals International and Domestic Law Dimensions of Climate Justice for Arctic Indigenous Peoples

2014 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 113-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Ann Kronk Warner ◽  
Randall S. Abate
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Arctic Region ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Indian Country ◽  
Indigenous Nations ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

The Arctic region is in crisis from the effects of climate change. The impacts of climate change pose a particular threat to Arctic indigenous communities. Because of the disproportionate impacts of climate change, these indigenous communities are environmental justice communities. Part I of this article discusses how indigenous nations are environmental justice communities and discusses the unique factors that may apply to environmental justice claims arising in Indian country. The article then presents two case studies to explore how, if at all, these concepts have been previously applied to environmental justice claims brought by various Arctic indigenous communities. Part II addresses the Inuit Circumpolar Conference’s petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Part III considers the Native Village of Kivalina’s lawsuit against numerous private emitters of greenhouse gases. These case studies underscore the failure of international and domestic forums’ consideration of the special situation of Arctic indigenous peoples as environmental justice communities.

Calls to Action: Climate Change and Indigenous Food Sovereignty in Arctic

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ranjan Datta
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Indigenous Community ◽  
Assessment Policy ◽  
Policy Guideline ◽  
Indigenous Perspectives ◽  
Indigenous Elders

<p>This study is responding reconciling Indigenous climate change and food sovereignty in Arctic<strong>.</strong> We will explore, how recent climate change (and interpretation) is challenging to Indigenous food sovereignty sources; and what is at stake in processes such as hunting consultation, impact assessment, regulatory hearings, approvals (including negotiation of benefits), monitoring? and what reformed processes can build Indigenous community capacity and supports robust decisions? The outcomes will assist policy makers and communities to guide future consultations and impacts assessment guideline and climate change planning initiatives. We (as an interdisciplinary research team of Indigenous Elders, knowledge-keepers, Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars) will focus on Indigenous understanding of Indigenous philosophies of climate change and the connectivity between climate change and food sovereignty and sustainability related to the interactions and inter-dependencies with health security, Indigenous environmental and cultural value protection. Indigenous knowledge-ways have much to offer in support of resiliency of climate change and water infrastructure in Indigenous communities, intercultural reconceptualization of research methodologies, environmental sustainability, and educational programs which support Indigenous communities.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Action Plan: Objective: </strong>Supporting Indigenous perspectives on climate change impact management and food sovereignty. This includes involving members of Indigenous community to offer insight into Indigenous cultural and community responsibilities of Indigenous climate change impacts management to inform food sovereignty performance review policy development. <strong>Contribution: </strong>The designing, coordinating, and hosting an interdisciplinary Focused Dialogue Session on the relationship between climate change impacts management and food sovereignty. This Dialogue Session creates new scholarly knowledge about pipeline leak impacts and food sovereignty processes. <strong>Objective:</strong> Developing effective and trustful engagement dialogs to build capacity among Indigenous Elders, Knowledge-keepers, and scholars. <strong>Contribution: </strong>This objective supports Indigenous perspectives through specific, policy-orientated research that positively impacts their vision and allow them to develop new ways of climate change impacts and food sovereignty. This reveals climate change impacts management and food sovereignty policy and practices in Arctic. <strong>Objective: </strong>Mobilize knowledge and partnership for reconciliation (specifically translate research results into evidence for policy-making) through developing an impact assessment policy guideline. <strong>Contribution: </strong>The impact assessment policy guideline shares knowledge and implications of climate change impacts management policy documents local, provincially, and nationally and assist in the articulation and practice of food sovereignty source protection, as culturally and community informed.</p>

Embracing Our “Otherness”

2016 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-52
Author(s):  
Natasha Prodan-Bhalla ◽  
Diane Middagh ◽  
Sharon Jinkerson-Brass ◽  
Shabnam Ziabakhsh ◽  
Ann Pederson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Nurse Practitioners ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Spiritual Healing ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Models Of Care ◽  
Indigenous Community ◽  
Theory And Practice

Theories on the importance of holistic and spiritual healing within nonconventional models of care are vast, yet there is little written about the practical, clinical-level interventions required to deliver such practices in collaborative cross-cultural settings. This article describes the learning experiences and transformative journeys of non-Indigenous nurse practitioners working with a Cultural Lead from an Indigenous community in British Columbia, Canada. The goal of the Seven Sisters Healthy Heart Project was to improve heart health promotion in an Indigenous community through a model of knowledge translation. The article describes the development of a bridge between two cultures in an attempt to deliver culturally responsive programming. Our journeys are represented in a phenomenological approach regarding relationships, pedagogy, and expertise. We were able to find ways to balance two worlds—the medical health services model and Indigenous holistic models of healing. The key to building the bridge was our willingness to be vulnerable, to trust in each other’s way of teaching and learning, and allowing diverse viewpoints and knowledge sources to be present. Our work has vast implications for health promotion in Indigenous communities, as it closes the gap between theory and practice by demonstrating how Indigenous models can be integrated into mainstream health promotion practices.

Indigenous communities and climate change: a Recognition, Empowerment and Devolution (RED) framework in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Nikolakis ◽  
Quentin Grafton ◽  
Aimee Nygaard
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Climate Impacts ◽  
Natural Systems ◽  
Indigenous Cultures ◽  
Murray Darling Basin ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
Depth Interviews

Climate change directly threatens Indigenous cultures and livelihoods across Australia's Murray-Darling Basin (MDB). Using a modified grounded theory methodology, this study draws on in-depth interviews with Indigenous leaders and elders across the MDB to highlight that climate variability and over-extraction of water resources by agricultural users directly threatens the integrity of aquatic systems. As a consequence, Indigenous cultures and livelihoods reliant on these natural systems are at risk. Interviewees identify a range of systemic barriers that entrench vulnerability of Indigenous Peoples (IPs) in the MDB. Building on insights from the literature and from interviews, a Recognition, Empowerment and Devolution (RED) framework is developed to establish possible pathways to support climate adaptation by rural IPs. Fundamental to this RED framework is the need for non-Indigenous socio-institutional structures to create a ‘space’ to allow IPs the ability to adapt in their own ways to climate impacts.

scholarly journals Renewable energy and energy autonomy: how Indigenous peoples in Canada are shaping an energy future

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert D. Stefanelli ◽  
Chad Walker ◽  
Derek Kornelsen ◽  
Diana Lewis ◽  
Debbie H. Martin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Keyword Search ◽  
Grey Literature ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Energy Autonomy

In 2015, the Liberal Party of Canada formed a majority federal government on a platform that included prioritizing Nation-to-Nation relationships with Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit, and Métis) peoples in the country and re-asserting global leadership in climate change action by moving away from fossil-fuel based extraction and toward renewable energy initiatives. It may be argued that addressing both of these issues, advancing Indigenous–Settler reconciliation, and mitigating climate change, can be done in the same space. Indeed, though Indigenous peoples in Canada and elsewhere have recently moved forward with renewable energy initiatives within their Territories, there has been very little critical analysis on just how such projects have been operationalized and whether renewable energy can or even should be considered a vehicle for reconciliation efforts. In this paper, we present a systematic review of Canadian literature (spanning from 1980 to 2017) concerning Indigenous peoples’ involvement in renewable energy to better understand the stated motivations and desires of Indigenous peoples in Canada taking leadership, partnering in, and (or) participating in the renewable energy sector. Using a series of keyword search strings across three academic databases, two theses databases, and a grey literature search, we retrieved literature (n = 980) that was subjected to four exclusionary forms and then thematically analyzed the included literature (n = 26). Our findings suggest Indigenous peoples’ experiences and motivations are varied, yet many are developing renewable energy in their Territories to: break free of colonial ties, move towards energy autonomy, establish more reliable energy systems, and reap the long-term financial benefits that clean energy can provide. Despite the apparent advantages seen throughout most of the literature reviewed here, we suggest further research in this area is necessary before this kind of positive rhetoric of renewable energy in Indigenous communities builds enough momentum that proponents become blind to possible shortcomings. We conclude with a broader discussion of the interactions between Indigenous–Settler reconciliation in the context of renewable energy projects as well as offering indicators for future research to fill current knowledge gaps.

scholarly journals AN OVERVIEW OF THE LAND DEVELOPMENT ISSUES RELATED TO INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN MALAYSIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (26) ◽  
pp. 111-120
Author(s):  
Kelvin Celesistinus ◽  
Siti Radiaton Adawiyah Zakaria
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Land Development ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Indigenous Community ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

Given that the way of life of indigenous peoples is usually associated with low living standards, the government has an important role to play in ensuring that the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous communities is narrowed. Unfortunately, as the program to improve the quality of life of indigenous communities has been widely implemented across the country, tension has begun to escalate among the indigenous community on the real motive of the program. Government policy objectives to assimilate indigenous communities into mainstream society leave little scope for indigenous groups to pursue their own life projects. Several studies have reported that the development of the government within traditional indigenous lands has caused conflict between the developer and the indigenous community. This situation has caused the indigenous people to bear the consequences of losing their traditional land, which is very important to reflect their identity. The aim of this paper is therefore to examine the current issues related to the land development initiative on the way of life of indigenous peoples in Malaysia. Documents search from published and unpublished material is used for this paper and a guide with a set of settings five years prior. The findings of this paper show that the development of the government in indigenous traditional lands has disrupted the traditional way of life, leading to multiple adverse effects on the community and the environment. In other words, the core of the indigenous people's struggle to this date is therefore concentrated in their involvement in making decisions in any development proposed to enhance their quality of life. Apart from that, the perspective of land development between the government and the indigenous peoples is quite different from one another. In conclusion, it is important to elicit knowledge and opinion from both indigenous peoples and government agencies to ensure the impact of land development activities can be minimized and implemented appropriately.

scholarly journals Key Considerations: Indigenous Peoples in COVID-19 Response and Recovery

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Araujo, Susana Araujo, Susana ◽  
Mariah Cannon ◽  
Megan Schmidt-Sane ◽  
Alex Shankland ◽  
Mieke Snijder ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Amazon Region ◽  
Indigenous Community ◽  
Health And Development ◽  
Response And Recovery ◽  
Indigenous Voices

Indigenous peoples have experienced heightened vulnerability during the COVID-19 pandemic and face disproportionately high COVID-19 mortality. To better address these vulnerabilities, it is critical to adapt COVID-19 programmes to the particular needs of indigenous peoples, as articulated by indigenous voices. It is also vital to link up with responses already ongoing and led by indigenous peoples to mitigate this crisis. This SSHAP brief discusses key considerations for COVID-19 response and recovery, with a particular focus on the Amazon region of South America. The considerations in this brief are drawn from a review of evidence and insights provided by indigenous leaders and researchers from several different continents. The considerations are rooted in key principles for indigenous community engagement, as articulated by indigenous peoples and organisations. This brief may be of interest to health and development policymakers and practitioners working in indigenous communities and territories and can be read in conjunction with the SSHAP background report on ‘Indigenous Peoples and COVID-19.’

scholarly journals RELATO DE EXPERIÊNCIA NA COMUNIDADE INDÍGENA DE CATU, CANGUARETAMA/RN: os diferentes grupos humanos que formaram, convivem e conflitam no Brasil

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (13) ◽  
pp. 252
Author(s):  
Ana Beatriz Câmara Maciel ◽  
Cícera Tamara Graciano Leal da Silva Fernandes ◽  
Antonia Salete da Silva Pereira Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Racial Diversity ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Indigenous Community ◽  
The State ◽  
Whole School ◽  
Teaching History ◽  
Bibliographical Survey

EXPERIENCE REPORT IN THE INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY OF CATU, CANGUARETAMA/RN: the different human groups who formed, live and conflited in BrazilINFORME DE EXPERIENCIA EN COMUNIDAD INDÍGENA DE CATU, CANGUARETAMA/RN: los diferentes grupos humanos que se formaron, viven y se encuentran en conflicto en BrasilO referido trabalho foi direcionado aos estudantes dos 7º Anos A, B e C da Escola Municipal Professora Terezinha Paulino de Lima, localizada no bairro de Nossa Senhora da Apresentação, em Natal/RN, no ano de 2016. Com a premissa de ensinar História e Geografia a partir das discussões sobre os problemas da sociedade atual, procurou-se estimular o debate sobre as diversidades étnico-raciais em defesa de uma educação para a cidadania. Abordou-se sobre as características contemporâneas das comunidades indígenas potiguares e os conflitos atuais relacionados à questão da demarcação de terras, aos estereótipos e aos preconceitos decorrentes de um senso comum sobre a falsa inexistência de índios no estado do Rio Grande do Norte. Procedimentalmente, foram feitas atividades interdisciplinares, dentro da sala de aula formal e fora dela, através de uma sequência didática que, inicialmente, contou com levantamento bibliográfico acerca da temática diversidade étnico-racial em autores clássicos e nos livros didáticos, abordando-se, inclusive, manifestações culturais de grupos sociais afrodescendentes e outros - como meio de ampliação da percepção sobre as diferenças. Em seguida, houve aulas de campo na comunidade indígena de Catu, município de Canguaretama, onde os alunos obtiveram, através de relatos orais, entre outras vivências, informações sobre a história e os dilemas socioambientais dessa comunidade e ao Estuário Potengi, possibilitando análises sobre os impactos da ocupação no território potiguar. Por fim, novamente em sala de aula formal, os alunos sintetizaram suas conclusões e as compartilharam com toda a comunidade escolar, sendo avaliados como tendo alcançado os objetivos propostos para este trabalho adequadamente.Palavras-chave: Povos Índígenas; Povos Formadores do Brasil; Diversidades Étnico-raciais; Comunidade Indígena Catu.ABSTRACTThis report of experience was directed to students of the 7th Years A, B and C of the Municipal School Professor Terezinha Paulino de Lima, located in the neighborhood of Nossa Senhora da Apresentação, in Natal/RN, in the year 2016. With the premise of teaching History and Geography from the discussions about the problems of the current society, we tried to stimulate the debate on ethnic-racial diversities in defense of an education for citizenship. We spoke about the contemporary characteristics of the indigenous communities of Potiguares and the current conflicts related to the land demarcation issue, the stereotypes and the prejudices arising from a common sense about the false inexistence of Indians in the state of Rio Grande do Norte. Interdisciplinary activities were carried out, both within and outside the formal classroom, through a didactic sequence that initially had a bibliographical survey about ethnic-racial diversity in classic authors and in textbooks, including, cultural manifestations of afrodescendent social groups and others - as a means of increasing the perception about the differences. Then, there were field lessons to the indigenous community of Catu, municipality of Canguaretama, where the students obtained, through oral reports, among other experiences, information on the history and socio-environmental dilemmas of this community and the Potengi Estuary, making possible impacts of occupation in the territory of the state. Finally, again in the formal classroom, the students synthesized their conclusions and shared them with the whole school community, being evaluated as having achieved the objectives proposed for this work properly.Keywords: Indigenous Peoples; Formative Peoples of Brazil; Ethnic-racial Diversity; Indigenous Community of Catu.RESUMENEl trabajo fue dirigido a los estudiantes de los 7º A, B y C de la Escuela Municipal Profesora Terezinha Paulino de Lima, ubicada en el barrio de Nuestra Señora de la Presentación, en Natal/RN, en el año 2016. Con la premisa de enseñar Historia y Geografía a partir de las discusiones sobre los problemas de la sociedad actual, se intentó estimular el debate sobre las diversidades étnico-raciales en defensa de una educación para la ciudadanía. Se habló sobre las características contemporáneas de las comunidades indígenas potiguares y los conflictos actuales relacionados con la cuestión de la demarcación de tierras, los estereotipos y los prejuicios derivados de un sentido común sobre la falsa inexistencia de indios en el estado de Rio Grande do Norte. En el aula formal y fuera de ella, se realizaron actividades interdisciplinares, a través de una secuencia didáctica que, inicialmente, contó con levantamiento bibliográfico acerca de la temática diversidad étnico-racial en autores clásicos y en los libros didácticos, abordándose, inclusive, manifestaciones culturales de grupos sociales afrodescendientes y otros - como medio de ampliación de la percepción sobre las diferencias. A continuación, hubo clases de campo a la comunidad indígena de Catu, municipio de Canguaretama, donde los alumnos obtuvieron, a través de relatos orales, entre otras vivencias, informaciones sobre la historia y los dilemas socioambientales de esa comunidad y el Estuario Potengi, posibilitando análisis sobre los. impactos de la ocupación en el territorio potiguar. Por último, nuevamente en el aula formal, los alumnos sintetizaron sus conclusiones y las compartieron con toda la comunidad escolar, siendo evaluados como habiendo alcanzado los objetivos propuestos para este trabajo adecuadamente.Palabras clave: Pueblos Indígenas; Pueblos Originales de Brasil; La Diversidad Étnica y Racial; Comunidad Indígena Catu.

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