The National Conservation Training Center invites you to watch on Wednesday, March 16, 2022, at 3:00 PM (ET) a presentation with James Rattling Leaf, Principal at the WoLakota Lab LLC.
The session will share collaborative and respectful approaches to engage with communities and stakeholders to incorporate Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) into both assessments of the impacts of climate change climate change
Climate change includes both global warming driven by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases and the resulting large-scale shifts in weather patterns. Though there have been previous periods of climatic change, since the mid-20th century humans have had an unprecedented impact on Earth's climate system and caused change on a global scale.
Learn more about climate change as well as planning to enhance community resiliency in anticipation of those changes.
ABOUT OUR PRESENTER
James Rattling Leaf is the Principal at the WoLakota Lab LLC whose vision is to advance greater understanding and to build effective relationships with Indigenous Peoples. He has more than 25 years of experience serving as a cross-cultural/broker resource to the federal government, higher education institutions, and non-profits to develop, maintaining positive ongoing working relationships with federally and non-federally recognized Indian tribes, Tribal College and Universities, and Tribal Communities. He specializes in developing programs that utilize the interface between Indigenous People’s Traditional Knowledge and Western Science. He was born on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and is an enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
We welcome any Department of the Interior staff and partners and anyone else who may be involved with tribes or who wishes to learn more about working with tribes.
TO JOIN THE BROADCAST
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CLOSED CAPTIONS
Live captions will be included in the broadcast.
CONTACT
For Closed Captioning or technical questions: Jennifer Hill (240) 772.0393 or jennifer_hill@fws.gov
We will record this broadcast and upload it to the NCTC Broadcast Gallery within 2 weeks after the event. Access the NCTC Broadcast Gallery’s Indigenous Speaker Series here.