Close Modal Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change: The Keys to Our Resilient Future This spring the Museum of Science, with support from the City of Boston and Hartman Deetz (Mashpee Wampanoag), launches a new seasonal speaker series that will highlight the work Indigenous communities are doing to combat climate change across the United States. The City of Boston and other coastal cities are facing major impacts of climate change. What can we learn from Indigenous communities? Could Traditional Ecological Knowledge be one of the many tools to help us become more resilient? Indigenous communities are heavily impacted by climate change and have remained resilient despite loss of land, food insecurity, and many other issues.Join us for our first convening celebrating the work that Indigenous communities locally and nationally are leading to combat water issues such as rising sea levels, flooding, drought, and more.This program is free, thanks to the generosity of the Lowell Institute. Register for the Event Date and Time Wednesday, March 19 | 7:00 pm Audience Adults 18+ Location Blue Wing View Map Price Free with Pre-Registration Language English Register for the Event Date and Time Wednesday, March 19 | 7:00 pm Audience Adults 18+ Location Blue Wing View Map Price Free with Pre-Registration Language English The City of Boston and other coastal cities are facing major impacts of climate change. What can we learn from Indigenous communities? Could Traditional Ecological Knowledge be one of the many tools to help us become more resilient? Indigenous communities are heavily impacted by climate change and have remained resilient despite loss of land, food insecurity, and many other issues.Join us for our first convening celebrating the work that Indigenous communities locally and nationally are leading to combat water issues such as rising sea levels, flooding, drought, and more.This program is free, thanks to the generosity of the Lowell Institute. Featuring Image Joseph Lee Joseph Lee is an Aquinnah Wampanoag journalist and the editor of Our Living Lands, a weekly radio segment that explores the impact of climate change on Indigenous communities. He was previously a Senior Indigenous Affairs Fellow at Grist. His work has also appeared in The Guardian, Vox, High Country News, Science News, and more. He is the author of the book Nothing More of This Land, forthcoming from One Signal/Atria in July 2025. Image Jason Steiding Jason is a native Cape Codder and eagle clan member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe.In his role as Natural Resources Director of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, he strives to protect the natural resources that have ensured the survival and well-being of his People since time immemorial and to sustain these resources for the next seven generations. Jason oversees all natural resource related activities for the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe including fish and wildlife management, habitat protection and restoration, water resource management, food sovereignty, diadromous fish recovery, and Tribal development and environmental policy analysis and implementation. Image Shavonne Smith Shavonne Smith is a member of the Shinnecock Nation and has spent the majority of her life on the tribe's peninsula. The remainder of Shinnecock homelands are on the eastern end of Long Island and touch the Shinnecock and Peconic Bays. Being a coastal community, climate impacts witnessed and experienced by tribal members are often visceral. Shavonne has spent many years developing partnerships and networks to address some of Shinnecock's climate concerns. She has worked for the Shinnecock Nation for 18 years and is also a member of two national committees that work to support, protect, and advocate for environmental protection in Indian Country. Image
