TANNER LECTURES SPEAKER: MARGARET REDSTEER, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON BOTHELL Margaret Redsteer’s Tanner Lectures, “Climate Futures and Structural Paradigms,” will draw on her experiences working with local Indigenous communities to adapt to a changing climate and will consider what has been left out of narratives about the challenges we face.
Christopher Flavelle and Kalen Goodluck, The New York Times
Published: 28 Jun 2021 11:55 AM BdST
Updated: 28 Jun 2021 11:57 AM BdST Anna Abraham, the mayor of Chefornak, Alaska, said she grew up hearing stories from elders about how the weather would warm, April 26, 2021. Many Native people were forced into the most undesirable areas of America, first by white settlers, then by the government. Now, parts of that marginal land are becoming uninhabitable. (Ash Adams/The New York Times)
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The thick ground, once frozen solid, is thawing. The village preschool, its blue paint peeling, sits precariously on wooden stilts in spongy marsh between a river and a creek. Storms are growing stronger. At high tide these days, water rises under the building, sometimes keeping out the children, ages 3 to 5. The shifting ground has warped the floor, making it hard to close the doors. M
Dispossessed, Again: Climate Change Hits Native Americans Especially Hard
Many Native people were forced into the most undesirable areas of America, first by white settlers, then by the government. Now, parts of that marginal land are becoming uninhabitable.
Pierre Augare, a member of the Quinault Nation in Taholah, Wash., a community on the Olympic Peninsula that has been planning a retreat from the ocean for almost a decade.Credit.Josué Rivas for The New York Times
June 27, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
In Chefornak, a Yu’pik village near the western coast of Alaska, the water is getting closer.
The thick ground, once frozen solid, is thawing. The village preschool, its blue paint peeling, sits precariously on wooden stilts in spongy marsh between a river and a creek. Storms are growing stronger. At high tide these days, water rises under the building, sometimes keeping out the children, ages 3 to 5. The shifting ground has warped the floor, making it hard to close the doors. Mold gro