In today’s episode, Youth Climate Lab Design & Community Manager Shalaka Jadhav talks with Nika Silverfox, a member of Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation and a part of the Wolf Clan currently working towards a degree in Northern Conservation and Environmental Sciences at Yukon University. They discuss the illuminating worldviews that spiritual connection work brings to Western approaches to climate change, and the interconnectedness between food, land, and housing justice. One of the seeds we will save from Nika’s episode is how visible and eminent climate change is in northern regions and how non-Indigenous people can support Indigenous folks in their communities by learning whose land they’re on and reaching out to local Indigenous communities and organizations. Miigwetch for joining us, Nika!
You can follow Nika on Instagram: @twouvula.nika
Intro and outro music is Let's Go by @Pricelys and @Omarbmusic off of Zoey's new EP, MADE UP
Land(ing) Back Cover Art by @Morning.Star.Designs
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This project was funded through the Government of Canada's Canada Service Corps and Commemorate Canada programs.