Abundant Narratives on Land & Indigeneity

As conversations around the inequitable nature of land access grow, and movements for Land Back, reparations, and community-based tenure become more common, Abundant Narratives on Land & Indigeneity will provide an opportunity to increase our collective literacy around the interdisciplinary issues of land tenure, access, and rights. There is also a companion workshop to engage further with some of our speakers. Workshop info and registration is separate and linked here. 

The first panel on Thursday evening from 6-8 pm is bringing speakers and pracitioners together to discuss the ways Global North property regimes impact and influence environmental justice issues. Please join us in welcoming

• Jessica A. Shoemaker, Professor of Law at University of Nebraska, recognized nationally and internationally for her work on adaptive change in pluralistic land-tenure systems. 
• Nikola Alexandre '18 MF/MBA, Co-Creator & Stewardship Lead at Shelterwood Collective, a 900 acre Indigenous, Black, Disabled, and Queer-led community forest and collective of land protectors and cultural changemakers.
• Dr. Kirsteen Shields, Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, a human rights law expert with a focus on Scottish community-led land reform. 
• Dr. Antonio Roman-Alcala, geography and environmental studies assistant professor at CSU East Bay and organizer working on issues of sustainable food systems and land justice. 

Dinner will be served at 5:30 with the panel starting at 6:00pm. 

The second panel on Friday afternoon from 1-3pm on intersectionality and multiplicity in Indigenous identities aims to center perspectives from individuals whose work and lived experiences are largely influenced by this topic. Please join us in welcoming

• Joseph Gazing Wolf, research fellow at Arizona State University's RISE Center, a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe with mixed Black Seminole and Amazigh heritage. His work is located at the interface of Indigenous lifeways and colonial cultures. 
• Purruq Erica Khan, Indigenous Storytelling & Communications Strategist at the First Alaskans Institute, Iñupiaq and Pakistani, born and raised in Utqiaġvik, Alaska. Purruq is an artist, a sister, an aunty, a learner, and a spiritualist, and intentionally brings those teachings that have been instilled in her. 
• Dr. Diana Onco-Ingyadet, Navajo, Kiowa, & Comanche, Associate Director of Academic Affairs for Yale Young Global Scholars & Co-Founder of Indigenous Leaders at Yale.

The Ecological Management & Conservation Learning Community and the People, Equity, and the Environment Learning Community are excited to co-organize this event with the following goals in mind: 

1. Provide an opportunity for attendees to critically engage with private property as a central structure shaping land use and management practices;
2. Bring scholars and practitioners together to share knowledge and emphasize opportunities and challenges in the growing movement around equitable land reform given place-based legacies of injustice. 
3. Facilitate interdisciplinary discussion that links land stewardship with justice and sovereignty considerations. 

We are grateful to so many groups and programs for making this event possible. Thanks to the Yale Forest Forum, Ecosystem Management & Conservation Learning Community, People, Equity, & the Environment Learning Community, Forestry SIG, and EJAY SIG. 

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