This video highlights the importance of knowledge from Indigenous communities about changing climates and adaptation.
It also highlights that valuable Indigenous knowledge is not being used or applied in many countries, but that partnerships between Indigenous communities and scientists are helping us better understand the changes occurring today.
Teaching Tips
Positives
The video incorporates engaging imagery and clear text captions to ensure student understanding.
Additional Prerequisites
There is a commercial at the beginning of the video. The video content ends at 5 minutes, 18 seconds.
Students will need to have a basic understanding of the concept of climate change.
Differentiation
Geography teachers can use this resource when discussing the connectedness of humans and places.
This video can be used as a discussion point when identifying different ways individuals and collectives can take action on climate change.
This 6-minute video discusses that the knowledge held by indigenous communities has historically been ignored. This resource showcases indigenous communities in Northern Canada as an example and presents ways that these communities have learned from (and how they understand) the ecosystems they depend on for food and shelter. This resource also presents examples of ways in which climate change is causing these indigenous communities to move away from traditional practices in order to survive. This resource is recommended for teaching.
Standards
Social Sciences
Geography (K-12)
6.14 Identify and describe how the physical and human characteristics of places and regions connect to human identities and cultures in the Western Hemisphere.
HS.48 Determine the influence of long-term climate change and variability on human migration, settlement patterns, resource use, and land uses at local-to-global scales.
