This special Climate in Your Pocket presentation accompanies a free screening of the film “Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives on Restoring our World”! 

“Inhabitants” looks at sustainable land use practices of five Native American nations across the United States: The Hopi, Blackfeet, Menominee, Hawaiian and Karuk.  Winner of numerous film awards, “Inhabitants” is an invitation to look at the ways millennia-old conservation practices can be used for a changing climate.

Through Aug. 23^rd, 2023, you will have access to the movie through this link. 

This recorded presentation, "Indigenous Resiliency: A Path Forward,” features Dr. Michael Kotutwa Johnson, one of the experts in the film, from the Hopi Tribe of northern Arizona.  Dr. Johnson takes a closer look at themes discussed in the film about conserving the land and Native American culture together.

Dr. Johnson’s research focuses on Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Land Use Management methods related to food, energy, conservation, and water. He currently is an Assistant Professor with the University of Arizona’s School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Cooperative Extension, and the Indigenous Resilience Center.  Dr. Johnson remains a practitioner of traditional Hopi dryland farming and continues to give talks on the subject.

After the lecture a Q&A session is followed by a brief discussion centered on, “how can land practices like those featured in the film be interpreted or even practiced at your sites?”