Hi, it's Greg Dalton. I'd like to hear your comments on the show, topics we should cover, and guest suggestions.

You can reach me at Greg at climate one.org. This is Climate One. I'm Greg Dalton. Climate Science often focuses on data rather than lived experiences of impacts.

One indigenous scientist wants to change that. In order for us to create more justice and

just solutions that are more holistic and will address our past histories, it's important right

to incorporate those lived experiences. We also need to elevate and respect indigenous ways of

knowing the land. The river to me is one of my mothers.

And so I have sort of this innate responsibility to protect her.

That can mean confronting systems of oppression that have made the climate crisis worse.

Climate change isn't just about protecting the natural world.

It's also about protecting our culture and who we are.

Indigenous insights on healing land and sky.

Up next on Climate One.

According to the World Bank, land managed by indigenous peoples

is associated with lower rates of

deforestation, reduced greenhouse gas emissions, and better protection of biodiversity.

But in many places, indigenous people have been displaced from their ancestral lands,

throughout right theft, land grabs, violence, and war. The land-back movement advocates for putting

indigenous lands back in indigenous hands to dismantle white supremacy and systems of oppression,

but that can be difficult to achieve in practice. Still, across the country, we can find

examples of land access, stewardship, and ownership being

restored to indigenous people, and more conversations about involving tribal nations

in conservation and climate resilience efforts.

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