Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy - Indigenous Voices for Decolonized Futures

Indigenous peoples, deeply rooted in place-based knowledge, are leading the way in developing strategies on how best to approach climate justice and climate resilience. What does climate and environmental justice look like when Indigenous voices are brought to the forefront? How can we move beyond “land acknowledgements” toward meaningful courses of action for our shared futures? In California, climate action plans are drawing from time-tested Indigenous fire and land management approaches; Governor Newsom is launching a Truth and Healing Commission; and across the state, communities are participating in land return to Indigenous nations.
Leading Indigenous educator Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy provides a three-step approach to re-imagining climate and environmental justice in California and beyond, focusing on concrete actions that challenge us to dream better futures together.
Dr. Risling Baldy delivered this talk at the 2020 Bioneers Conference. Watch more conference videos at bioneers.org/2020talks/
Cutcha Risling Baldy, Ph.D. (Hupa, Yurok, Karuk), Associate Professor and Department Chair of Native American Studies at Humboldt State and co-founder of the Native Women's Collective, a nonprofit supporting the revitalization of Native American arts and culture, researches Indigenous feminisms, California Indians and decolonization. She is the author of: We Are Dancing For You: Native feminisms and the revitalization of women's coming-of-age.
To learn more about Dr. Risling Baldy and the work of the Native Women's Collective, visit www.nativewomenscollective.org/

[@annadash3815]

Thank you Bioneers for sharing such important messages and wisdom. I´m very greatful for your UA-cam presence and beeing a platform for all those voices.

[@GriffWild]

Yes, Love it. Give more federal lands in CA back to the tribes. Start with ceremonially significant lands.

[@JeraldMYates]

I wish all living creatures well being and a safe secure dignified life.

[@spacedaddyv]

Beautifully said

[@jenniferspring8741]

LAND BACK-- imagine thinking of this as a promise of salvation, not a threat.