INDIGENOUS DIALOGUES ON ROOT CAUSES: CLIMATE JUSTICE AND COVID-19 IN CALIFORNIA

FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 2021 - 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM - ONLINE

Presented by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.

This webinar will center dialogue on the importance of Indigenous Ecological Knowledges in California, and will offer critical perspectives on the COVID-19 pandemic as a symptomatic expression of the social and ecological imbalances wrought by colonial violence and the logics of enclosure and extraction. Julie Cordero-Lamb and Hana Aqiwo Lee of the Syuxtun Plant Mentorship Collective will speak to the crucial role that medicinal plant tending, harvesting, and processing continues to play in community health for the Coastal Chumash and their ancestral lands. Melinda Adams (San Carlos Apache Tribe) will share perspectives from her doctoral research at UC Davis on cultural burns, emphasizing the role of Indigenous fire practitioners in the maintenance of healthy ecosystems, communities, and cultures.

This event is free but registration is required.