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.

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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

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Joseph Lee - Aquinnah Wampanoag journalist and the editor of Our Living Land

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 others. He is the author of the book Nothing More of This Land, forthcoming from One Signal/Atria in July 2025.

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Jason Steiding

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.

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City of Boston