Activities
Webinars
COVID-19 and Climate Change: Understanding Place, History, and Indigenous Sovereignty in Emergency Response
An online event hosted in partnership with the Natural Hazards Center to share teaching modules focused on Tribal and Indigenous communities' experiences of COVID-19 and climate change, including ethical considerations, case studies, and narratives integrated into the curricula. To see the full curricula, https://hazards.colorado.edu/about/partnerships/indigenous-sovereignty-in-emergency-response
Ecomindfulness and Climate Resilience
An online event focused on ecomindfulness and climate resilience, to come together for a reflective time for engaging, healing, uplifting, sharing wisdom, and continuing to grow relationships and actions for supporting communities in times of disaster.
Building Relational and Effective Partnerships with Indigenous Communities
Building Relational and Effective Partnerships with Indigenous Communities presented by James Rattling Leaf and Gwen Bridge
Testing Justice New Ways to Address Environmental Inequalities
The Rising Voices Center for Indigenous and Earth Sciences hosted an online event on November 16, 2021 focused on “how can we as individuals do convergence science to address climate justice across cultures and disciplines with Indigenous Peoples?” Paulette Blanchard and Dr. Michelle Montgomery shared their work on the 7Rs of Indigenous Research and Eco-Critical Race Theory. You can also read their publication of this work.
Conference Presentations
The Rising Voices Center for Indigenous and Earth Sciences participates in a variety of events and discussions surrounding extreme weather, climate resilience, and the inherent value of Indigenous knowledge systems and Indigenous science.
The following are previous events in which Rising Voices has participated:
- Convergence Science: Indigenous Weather, Water and Climate Knowledge Systems, Practices and Communities Symposium, American Meteorological Society, January 2024
- Understanding the Relationships: People, Place, Technology, the Environment, and Climate Change, Poster presentation, American Geophysical Union, December 2023
- Indigenous and Earth systems science partnerships for co-creating knowledge, Presidential session, American Meteorological Society, January 2023
- Indigenous and Earth Systems Science Collaborations for Co-Creating Knowledge: Panel Discussion and Social Gathering, Town Hall session, American Meteorological Society, January 2023
- American Anthropological Association, Roundtable session, November 2020
- NOAA Environmental Data Talks - Speaker Series Data, Diversity, and Disaster October 16, 2020
- Natural Hazards Workshop, Invited plenary session, July 2020
- Knowledge sharing and coalition building to address the obstacles of preventive actions and community resettlement in the context of our climate crisis, Pacific Risk Management 'Ohana (PRiMO), panel session, March 2020
- American Anthropological Association, Executive panel session, November 2019
- Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS), October 2019
- Mni Ki Wakan Summit, August 2019
- American Association for Geographers, April 2019
- Multicultural Collaborations for Change, roundtable session, Society for Applied Anthropology, March 2019
- Conference on World Affairs, April 2018
- Society for Applied Anthropology, March 2018
- American Geophysical Union Session, Poster, Thriving Earth Exchange workshop, December 2017
- American Anthropological Association, November 2017
- Society for Applied Anthropology, March 2017
- Southwest Climate Change Tribal Network, Feb 2017
- American Meteorological Society, January 2016
- Society for Applied Anthropology, March 2016
- American Anthropological Association, roundtable, November 2015
- Southwest Climate Change Tribal Network, June 2015
- Pacific Northwest Climate Change Tribal Network, Aug 2015
- Pacific Risk Management ‘Ohana (PRiMO), March 2015
- American Meteorological Society, January 2015
- Australian Meteorological & Oceanographic Society Annual Conference (AMOS), February 2015
- Shifting Seasons, Oct 2014
- Northwest Tribal Water Conference, Oct 2014
- Pacific Risk Management ‘Ohana (PRiMO), March 2014
Formal Working Groups
Rising Voices Community Relocation & Site Expansion Working Group
Co-Leads
- Aranzazu Lascurain, NOAA Office for Coastal Management
- Bill Thomas, NOAA Office for Coastal Management
- Julie Maldonado, Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network (LiKEN)
Indigenous Phenology Network
Co-Leads
- Maraya Ben-Joseph, Olohana Foundation
- Katie Jones, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
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Brian Miller, North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center