Journal
FACETS
Volume 7, Issue -, Pages 509-527Publisher
CANADIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1139/facets-2021-0066
Keywords
Indigenous Knowledge; knowledge sharing; environmental change; phenology; monitoring; Indigenous research priorities; socioecological systems
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- New Frontiers in Research Fund (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council)
- Indigenous Community-Bas ed Climate Monitoring Program (Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada, CIRNAC)
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Climate change disproportionately affects Indigenous Peoples due to their strong connections to the environment and cultural well-being. The research emphasizes the need to elevate Indigenous concerns and incorporate Indigenous methodologies in climate change discourse and research.
Climate change disproportionately affects Indigenous Peoples because of strong connections between environmental, cultural, and spiritual well-being. While much of the global discourse surrounding climate change is founded in Western science, the holistic, place-based knowledge of Indigenous Peoples offers a complementary way of understanding and mitigating climate change impacts. The goal of this research was to elevate Anishinaabe concerns, observations, and perspectives about climate change impacts and future research needs. We organized a workshop called Connecting Guardians in a Changing World where participants shared concerns about animal and plant life cycles, water cycles and water quality, and impacts to ways of life, including reduced capacity to perform cultural practices and erosion of their knowledge. Participants highlighted the challenge of prioritizing a single impact of climate change, emphasizing that impacts to the environment and ways of life are interconnected. Participants also expressed the need for research and policy that move beyond interdisciplinarity to include intercultural philosophy and research that better reflects Indigenous worldviews and incorporates Indigenous methodologies. Moving forward, meaningful partnerships and opportunities for knowledge sharing should be prioritized in climate change discourse to ensure solutions are generated together, with all of the tools and knowledge available.
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