Leroy Little Bear delivers the Spring 2011 Simon Ortiz and Labriola Center Lecture on Indigenous Land, Culture and Community.
Recorded March 24, 2011 at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona
Science depends on who is doing the defining, what we now accept as science, leaves out a lot of science.

Leroy Little Bear is a member of the Blood Tribe of the Blackfoot Confederacy. Leroy is the former Director of the American Indian Program at Harvard University and professor emeritus of Native Studies at the University of Lethbridge where he was department chair for 25 years. He has served as a legal and constitutional advisor to the Assembly of First Nations and has served on many influential committees, commissions, and boards dealing with First Nations issues. 

Miquel Santisteven, an ethnobotanist, farmer and seed saving activist from Taos who has developed a long-term collaboration with nature, talks about the adaptation of heritage crops, traditional dry-land farming systems, gathering wild plants, water strategies, and the significance of farming his grandmothers land.

Chris Peters President and CEO of the Seventh Generation Fund gives a brief introduction to the "Echoes of the Earth in Times of Climate Change" Conference, which is followed by a keynote Speech by Dr. Henrietta Mann (Southern Cheyenne).

Renee, Previous President of the Red Lake Nation Tribal College, talks about Indigenous Knowledge and the importance of to and the reality of our connections to Mother Earth. Indigenous science and Indigenous knowledge in the past has been discounted for generations - now is the time to return to our original instructions.

Our apologies for the production images- there was an ethernet cable was accidentally disconnected and this is the control panel copy....

Rights of Mother Earth International Indigenous Conference presentation by Alannah Hurley,  an indigenous rights activist from Clark's Point, Alaska.

Seven Basic Points in Considering How to Move Forward with Indigenous Solutions.

Rights of Mother Earth Conference

Domination of and the destruction of the values of the land can be seen when our Indigenous Knowledge is ignored or not shared by all. If we do not perform ceremonies of thankfulness then those things that sustain us will be destroyed.

Pioneers Nitin Desai, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Bill Ford, Yolanda Kakabadse, Maurice Strong,  Jim MacNeill, and Achim Steiner , highlight the historic nature of the original Rio Earth Summit, while acknowledging its shortcomings. Rio+20 takes place in June 2012.

The first ripples of change often begin with civil society. Over time NGOs have used their speed, activism and collaborative approaches to influence actors within the UN process, as well as private sector players. Speakers include Jonathon Porritt, Vandana Shiva, Nitin Desai, Lester Brown, Bill Ford, Kris Gopaladrishman, Yolanda Kakabadse and Gro Harlem Brundtland.

Segun Adefila is a performance artist based in Lagos Nigeria. He holds a B.A. in Creative Arts from the University of Lagos, Nigeria and is a founding member and Artistic Director of the Crown Troupe of Africa, a dance-theater Company in Bariga, Lagos State.  TEDx presentation talks about culture, staying where you are planted, and no excuses.