Join local Tribal forestry professionals, who will trace millennia of stewardship by Indigenous peoples to manage forests based on holistic worldviews of connectedness of communities with their environments. With colonization, this ethos was displaced with forest policy centered on timber production, resulting in disruption of environmental processes. Today, Indigenous peoples are asserting greater influence over management of their ancestral forest lands through their exercise of self-determination and application of traditional knowledge and western science.
Where: Museum of History and Industry; 860 Terry Ave N, Seattle, WA 98109
When: Wednesday, February 18 at 6:30 pm
History Café is produced as a partnership between HistoryLink and MOHAI.
Interpreters: Amie Pease & Jessica Skolrood
ASL Interpretation and CART captioning are available during the program. In addition, a limited number of Assistive Listening Devices are available upon request. For more accessibility support, email programs@mohai.org two weeks before the program.
ID: A vintage sepia colored photograph of a little girl kneeling in the field of tall wild flowers. Beside the girl, there is a wooden sign “Grand Fir Plantation. Planted by Taholah Grade School, 5th & 6th Graders - 1970. Help Prevent Forest Fires”.