Julian Brave NoiseCat is a writer and advocate for Indigenous people. He himself is a member of the Secwepemc First Nation and a descendant of the Líl′wat Nation of Mount Currie of British Columbia.
NoiseCat suggests climate change is a call for humans to re-evaluate our relationships with the world, starting on a very intimate and personal basis.
“I went fishing a number of times in August. I went dip netting for salmon at Farwell Canyon on the Chilcotin River with Williams Lake First Nation Chief Willie Sellars, Esk’et hereditary chief Francis Johnson Jr. and their families. And when we fish we, we pray to the river beforehand, and we give thanks for what we are going to bring home.
There is power and agency in honoring and recognizing who you are and where you come from. I think that’s a very basic but important point. There’s strength in that.
An attachment to place and respect of a place and where you are in the environment, in the natural world, creates an imperative to defend and protect and preserve those places.
That’s what we see Indigenous peoples and movements doing all over the world. And in the broadest sense, that’s what everybody should be called to do right now is to protect and preserve our world.”
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https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/29/what-indigenous-people-can-teach-us-about-fighting-climate-change.html