Details | The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian and Teaching for Change host a day of online conversation, curriculum sharing, and ideas exchange. Museum education experts, Teaching for Change, and K–12 teachers share curriculum and teaching strategies and explore the NMAI’s Essential Understandings for teaching about Indigenous peoples’ histories and their experiences around land justice today. The keynote speaker discusses land rights issues and the relationship between Indigenous knowledge and the land. Workshops feature classroom resources from the NMAI’s online education portal Native Knowledge 360° and the Zinn Education Project’s Teach Climate Justice Campaign. The teach-in is presented online via Zoom. Rivers, trees, and other plants have existed and been governed by natural laws for millennia. What if they had legal, sovereign rights, too? How can we honor the land? What relationships with the land can we mend through Indigenous thinking and practices? Discuss, be inspired, and connect with your curriculum! Keynote Speaker What does it mean to think beyond nature? How would our approach to the climate crisis shift if we were to view Earth as a living relative with protections under law? Dr. Kelsey Leonard (Shinnecock) explores the emerging area of Earth law, explains its connection to Indigenous law, and charts a path forward for our shared sustainable future. Dr. Kelsey Leonard is a water scientist, legal scholar, policy expert, and enrolled citizen of the Shinnecock Nation. She is the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Waters, Climate, and Sustainability and Assistant Professor in the School of Environment, Resources, and Sustainability at the University of Waterloo. Her work focuses on Indigenous water justice and its climatic, territorial, and governance underpinnings for a shared sustainable future. Dr. Leonard represents the Shinnecock Nation on the Mid-Atlantic Committee on the Ocean, which is charged with protecting America’s ocean ecosystems and coastlines. Dr. Leonard has been instrumental in safeguarding the interests of Indigenous nations for environmental planning and builds Indigenous science and knowledge into new solutions for sustainable water and ocean governance. Workshops - Making Land Acknowledgement Meaningful (K–12)
- Native Voices in Children’s Literature (K–8)
- The Great Inka Road and Q’eswachaka bridge (5–8)
- Pipeline Protests: Putting Climate Civil Disobedience into the Curriculum (7–12)
- Virtual Field Trip Demonstration: American Indian Removal (4–12)
- “Nothing Was Discovered, Everything Was Already Loved”: Critical Conceptions of Land (K–8)
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