Indigenous Perspective to Climate and Environment

The lands and waters of the American West encountered by European colonizers were not “untouched” or “wild” as some have recorded, but rather the result of Indigenous land and water management techniques. To assume that western-based scientific knowledge is superior to Indigenous wisdom is a barrier to meaningful and lasting collaboration.

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The lands and waters of the American West encountered by European colonizers were not “untouched” or “wild” as some have recorded, but rather the result of a broad range of Indigenous land and water management techniques. To assume that western-based scientific knowledge is superior to Indigenous wisdom can be a barrier to meaningful and lasting collaboration. We must work together if we are to heal the land that we have collectively sullied.