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The Climate and Education Action Series: Dinner with Tara Houska

The Harvard College equity, diversity, and inclusion team is proud to have secured a Johnson Climate Action Grant, whereby we are exploring climate justice. We are hosting a series of events across the academic year that center the intersections of climate justice and empowering members of the College to engage in reflection and move to action. We are excited to invite a small group of College students to dinner with tribal rights attorney and founder of the Giniw Collective, Tara Houska, on Friday, November 3rd at 5:30 PM following the "Responsibility and Repair: Legacies of Indigenous Enslavement, Indenture, and Colonization at Harvard and Beyond Evening” led by the Harvard University Native American Program, in partnership with The Radcliffe Institute. Please follow this link to recommend students who might be particularly interested in attending and engaging with this dynamic leader on the power of her activism, and her inspiring impact.

From Moose to Cattle? Exercising Indigenous Sovereignty in Climate Adaptation Projects

Bowie Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

In my new book project, “Contested Icescapes, Land, Politics, and Change on an Arctic Agricultural Frontier,” I explore how marginal Arctic land is being imagined as a new frontier for agriculture under climate change, and what the implications are for rural and Indigenous lands, livelihoods, and governance. In this talk, I will discuss a chapter of the book that examines the political history of agriculture in the Northwest Territories, Canada, and its development alongside recent climate crises in the territory. Drawing on ethnographic research between 2021-3, I will discuss how Sambaa K’e First Nation and Ka’a’gee Tu First Nation are transforming agriculture from a settler-colonial tool of assimilation into an exercise of Indigenous sovereignty. How do these Dehcho First Nations communities make meaning of and assert authority over colonial projects? And what are the possibilities of climate adaptation more broadly, if we recognize Indigenous sovereignty in syncretic land use practices?