2020 Indigenous Peoples’ Day Virtual Teach-In: Food and Water Justice

Saturday, September 12, 2020
12:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST

Join the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) and Teaching for Change for keynote speaker Winona LaDuke curriculum workshops. The focus of the teach-in is Indigenous peoples’ histories and experiences around food and water justice today. The keynote speaker and interactive workshops will feature classroom resources from the NMAI’s Native Knowledge 360° and the Zinn Education Project’s Teach Climate Justice campaign. The teach-in will be held virtually via Zoom. CEU’s will be available by request and closed captions will be offered for the keynote and selected sessions. Learn more and register below.

Keynote Speaker

Winona LaDuke. LaDuke (member of the Mississippi Band Anishinaabeg of the White Earth reservation) is an internationally renowned activist working on issues of sustainable development, renewable energy, and food systems. She lives and works on the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota and is a two time vice presidential candidate with Ralph Nader for the Green Party. As program director of the Honor the Earth, she works nationally and internationally on the issues of climate change, renewable energy, and environmental justice with Indigenous communities.

Workshops(read descriptions below)

• Meet Today’s Climate Justice Activists: A mixer on the people saving the world 

• Necessity Film and Lesson

• Treaties Matter

• The Inka Empire: What Innovations Can Provide Food and Water for Millions?

• American Indian Responses to Environmental Challenges