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2023-04-23T21:31:28.000Z
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Video Title:
Living Earth Festival - Day 2
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From water scarcity to floods and erosion, Native nations are addressing climate change across Indian Country. Join the museum in Washington, DC for a weekend of conversations, presentations, and artist demonstrations that explore how Indigenous communities are stepping forward with aggressive plans to protect their ways of life. For the full schedule of events for Living Earth Festival Day 2, visit https://s.si.edu/3mv1pmG CONVERSATIONS ABOUT WATER AND AGRICULTURAL CHALLENGES Our Living Earth presenters come together for compelling conversations about environmental challenges facing their communities. From ensuring Indigenous people can steward their ancestral waters for future generations to dealing with rising and falling shorelines and the “heat dome” phenomenon, these conversations address how to nurture communities when both land and water are in short supply. 1:00 PM PANEL Amelia Flores (Mohave), Chairwoman of the Colorado River Indian Tribes Kaben Smallwood (Choctaw) Nicole Norris (Xelaltxw) 2:30 PM PANEL Reyna Banteah (Zuni) Joey Kalanakilaokalāhui Palupe (Native Hawaiian) Lucía Pérez Volkow 3:30 PM CHINAMPAS: AN AMPHIBIAN TERRITORY OF RESISTANCE IN MEXICO CITY Lucía Pérez Volkow Diego Astorga de Ita What is now Mexico City was once covered in canals and artificial islands built upon the shallow lake beds of the Valley of Mexico. Known as chinampas, these amphibious territories developed by the Aztecs of Tenochtitlan allowed for the cultivation of several annual crops. This resilient pre-Hispanic landscape has survived for hundreds of years, and patches of it remain in use in southern modern-day Mexico City. Volkow and Astorga de Ita will discuss the history of chinampas and the relevance of this aquatic landscape, the ecological importance of the wetland, and everyday life in the chinampas and canals. They will also address the contested nature of this site and examine cases of resistance that have emerged in response to environmental degradation, ineffective public policies, rapid urban growth, changes in land use, mass tourism, and gentrification. 4:15 PM SACRED IS THE TARO PLANT (KAPU KA HĀLOA) Joey Kalanakilaokalāhui Palupe (Native Hawaiian) on "Kupuohi, Kulāiwi Nani, and Kaiāulu" Makua Perry (Native Hawaiian) These presentations focus on the Hawaiian people’s relationship to their most sacred food crop—taro. The discussion will include ongoing efforts to promote knowledge about and growth of taro through initiatives in land stewardship and natural resource restoration and remediation along with culturally based education programs at Kualoa Ranch Private Nature Reserve.
Video Duration:
4 hr 15 min 25 sec
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