LPLP Operations Coordinator Lilias Jarding recently attended the “Native Peoples, Native Homelands” workshop on Climate Change (held November 18-21 in Prior Lake, MN), which brought people together from across the United States to consider the impacts of climate change on native communities. These impacts are already bringing a variety of threats to our communities, including changes in animal habits, where certain types of plants can grow, and water levels.
The Workshop, convened by the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, focused on finding solutions to the cultural, health, energy, economic, and other challenges we face as a result of climate change. Delegates took the result of the Workshop, the Mystic Lake Declaration, to the Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen, bringing the indigenous voice to this critical issue.
While at the workshop, Lilias had the opportunity to connect with many of her former colleagues from the Black Hills Alliance, a multicultural organization, instrumental in stopping uranium mining in the Black Hills. Those colleagues (pictured at right) included:
Dick Bancroft, Indigenous Movements Photographer, Minneapolis, MN
Zoltan Grossman, Professor, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
Jose Barreiro (Taino), Assistant Director for Research, National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC
Katsi Cook (Mohawk), First Environment Collaborative, New York, NY and Washington, DC
Faye Brown, Development and Communications Director, Honor the Earth, Minneapolis, MN
Lilias Jarding, Operations Coordinator, Lakota People’s Law Project
Winona LaDuke (Anishinaabe), Executive Director, Honor the Earth, and Founding Director, White Earth Land Recovery Project, White Earth, MN
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Dick Bancroft, Zoltan Grossman, Jose Barreiro, Katsi Cook, Faye Brown, Lilias Jarding, and Winona LaDuke
LPLP Attends Mystic Lake Workshop
LPLP Operations Coordinator Lilias Jarding recently attended the “Native Peoples, Native Homelands” workshop on Climate Change (held November 18-21 in Prior Lake, MN), which brought people together from across the United States to consider the impacts of climate change on native communities. These impacts are already bringing a variety of threats to our communities, including changes in animal habits, where certain types of plants can grow, and water levels.
The Workshop, convened by the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, focused on finding solutions to the cultural, health, energy, economic, and other challenges we face as a result of climate change. Delegates took the result of the Workshop, the Mystic Lake Declaration, to the Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen, bringing the indigenous voice to this critical issue.
While at the workshop, Lilias had the opportunity to connect with many of her former colleagues from the Black Hills Alliance, a multicultural organization, instrumental in stopping uranium mining in the Black Hills. Those colleagues (pictured at right) included:
Learn more about the Mystic Lake Workshop.