"Indigenous people have drawn on Indigenous knowledge and science for millennia to understand and respond to climate and environmental change they faced. What is different and challenging today is the rate of climate change occurring made by man and our ability to respond to it. We must correct the path we are walking on and return to the special relationships, the teachings, the knowledge and practice that maintains respect, honor and relationship with the natural world,"
- Suzanne Benally (Navajo/Santa Clara Tewa)
Executive Director of Cultural Survival
Our latest program series explores the changing relationships between Indigenous communities and their lands and surrounding environments in the face of rapidly accelerating climate change. Indigenous people are leading efforts to adapt to new environments created by industrialization, and drawing upon generations of knowledge and science to enact solutions for survival. Listen to 6 new interviews below with Indigenous leaders responding to climate change in the context of their communities . Also, don't miss the bonus program commemorating International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on November 25th.
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