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Hello, welcome to Native Ways for Climate Adaptation. These online tools provide professional development training for Tribal natural resource and health departments. This work brings Tribes/Nations and the University of Wisconsin together to engage Tribal professionals with climate change science in the context of their traditions, work, and communities. Links to the two training modules, Traditional Harvests and Community Health, are accessible below.
Globally, Indigenous people demonstrate leadership in addressing and adapting to climate change. Although the contemporary carbon emissions scenario was not created by Tribal lifestyles, climate change will have disproportionate effects on Tribal life because of limited land base and reliance on subsistence lifestyles.
How your communities adapt depends in part on how you integrate adaptation into your daily work, and collaborate across departments and divisions.
Professional Development Goals
The end-goal for participants is to:
- engage within and across Tribal departments and with leadership to strategize for climate change adaptation
Progression and goals to get there:
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- learn the challenges that Upper Great Lakes Tribes face regarding climate change
- learn how Tribes leverage Tribal Ecological Knowledge for adaptation
- learn the science of climate change in Wisconsin and the Upper Great Lakes Region
- engage in discussion about adaptation capacity and goals
- develop leadership opportunities to work across departments for climate adaptation planning
This website was created in the Upper Great Lakes Region. It is our intent that the lessons presented here will be useful to Native Nations and Tribal communities in other regions as well.
About this project
Native Ways for Climate Adaptation is a Tribal – University partnership funded by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs from 2015-2017. The Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa collaborated with the Ho-Chunk Nation, and the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, the University of Wisconsin Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts, and University of Wisconsin Extension. Visit the Partners page to learn more.
Video content for this project was filmed and edited by UW-Madison students.
