Rosalyn LaPier, Professor Monday, March 27, 2023
Department of History 5:15 – 6:30 p.m.
Location TBA
Indigenous activists, primarily women and Two Spirit peoples, have organized hundreds of marches, rallies, and acts of resistance opposing environmental injustice, racism, and the climate crisis in the past 20 years. On the surface these actions appear to mirror those of the mainstream environmental movement. But something more is occurring. Indigenous environmental protests also become places of ritual, prayer, song, dance, and even pilgrimage. Indigenous activists do not view themselves as protesters but as protectors and healers of the Earth.
Rosalyn LaPier, is an award winning Indigenous writer, environmental historian, and ethnobotanist. She works within Indigenous communities to revitalize traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), to address the growing climate crisis & environmental justice, and to strengthen public policy for Indigenous languages. She is the author of Invisible Reality: Storytellers,Storytakers and the Supernatural World of the Blackfeet, and she is a Research Associate at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Rosalyn is an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Tribe of Montana and Métis.
