PoE Autumn Seminar Series: Indigenous Perspectives on the Environment
We invite you to participate—as either an enrolled student or a guest—in the inaugural sessions of a quarterly, one-credit UW Program on the Environment seminar that will run Autumn, Winter and Spring quarters in coming years. The autumn seminars each year will deal with environmental justice issues. Our seminar this autumn will be based on the theme of “Indigenous Perspectives on the Environment,” with presentations by a dynamic set of speakers, most of them enrolled members of tribes throughout the United States, followed by question-and-answer sessions. Topics will include tribal sovereignty, political activism, community health and healing, Native food sovereignty, Indigenous knowledge and resource management, tribal-government relations, Native storytelling and school curricula, Indigenous video gaming, and more.
Our first guest will be Isaaksiichaa Ross Braine (Apsaalooke Nation), who spent several years as the UW’s tribal liaison and director of wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ – Intellectual House. In 2015 he was awarded a UW Distinguished Staff Award (Links to an external site.) and in 2019 was named Distinguished Alumnus of the UW’s iSchoolLinks to an external site..He will be focusing on the issue of tribal sovereignty and the centrality of that concept for Indigenous identity.
Wednesday, October 6, 4:30-5:30 PM
This event is available for public viewing on the PoE YouTube channel: