Organized and moderated by S. Louie and Alma Soongi Beck, Co-Chairs of the Climate Justice Team, this program features Theresa Harlan, Founder and Director of the Alliance for Felix Cove, and Joseph Sanchez, Elder and Hoipu with the Coast Miwok Tribal Council of Marin, who will discuss some crucial topics for climate activists such as:
What do American environmentalism, preservation, and conservation look like from their Native perspectives?
What do ongoing settler colonialism, National Parks, and the concept of "wilderness" have to do with the climate crisis?
Why are Rematriation, Land Back, Indigenous Science, and Indigenous land-care practices such as cultural burning and understanding humans as relatives to animal and plant life, key to addressing the climate crisis?
We also invite you to check out our Suggested Readings for these topics, and/or come listen, share, and think together about them at our Indigenous Voices Reading and Listening Circle on Thursday, May 25, 5:30 - 7 p.m. Pacific, Suggested Readings, and registration for the Reading and Listening Circle, are here.
Like what you saw? How about some Action Items to support the ongoing work of our speakers?
ACTION ITEMS:
Theresa Harlan, Alliance for Felix Cove:
Joe Sanchez and Jason Deschler, Coast Miwok Tribal Council of Marin:
Read: Miwok homeland site in Marin County returned to tribe after 150 years (mercurynews.com)
Donate: coastmiwokofmarin.org/huukuiko.html. Send checks to Huukuiko, Inc., PO Box 725, Nicasio, CA 94946.
Talk: With neighbors, friends, and your estate planning attorney about Land Back opportunities in Marin County and across the SF Bay Area