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Cascade Volcanoes • Entered by Barb Fox-Kilgore on June 6, 2023

Rising Voices-Understanding the Relationships: People, Place, Technology, the Environment, and Climate Change

May 31, 2023 – June 2, 2023

Key Issue: Climate Change
Activity Type: Relationship Building with non-white and/or frontline communities (relational meetings, attending events, community support, etc.)
Key Partners: NOAA, UCAR, NCAR, UCP, Liken Knowlege Haskell Indian University

Short Description of Activity

The Rising Voices Center for Indigenous and Earth Sciences facilitates intercultural, relational based approaches for understanding and adapting to climate events, climate change. The workshop engages network of Indigenous tribal and community leaders, scientists, researchers, students and educators from around the world to advance science through collaborations that bring Indigenous and Earth Sciences to work in a partnership.
Day 1 – Talk Story: Learning wisdom from the Elders followed by conversations with representatives from various organizations, program and networks to learn about their programming. working Groups: Select a topic to join; Community relocation/site expansion, Education, Communication, Training & Outreach, Energy Systems Health and water Systems.
Day 2- Appling Technology for Climate Action. Talk Story: Applying Technology for Climate Action Go back to your group from previous day and discuss how current technology, future technology will affect climate practices. Poster walk split up into groups according to your Region (Pacific Coastal) led by a conservationist discussing the effect of climate changing the nature of traditional tribal land in the northern California area where Douglas Fir is now encroaching in the Oak savannahs that were the traditional landscape of the Yurok Tribe.
Day 3: Declarations of wise application of technology for climate actions. Reflections and priorities from Working Groups. Having Equity in applying technology, keeping Indigenous sovereignty with technology. Discussing all impacts both positive and negative.

Reflection/Evaluation

This was my 2nd RV I have attended and found it extremely educational and as a non-native to be able to immerse myself in the Indigenous point of few, to see the environmental concerns from their perspective, their culture, their history, their spirituality, from their traditional environmental practices that have been common sense tried and true practices through history.
I hope this provides me the insight to share with fellow Broads and to help our Broadband to effectively collaborate with diverse groups when working on environmental projects of shared concern.