Drawing from her book Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science, Dr. Jessica Hernandez offers a compelling critique of Western environmental models, highlighting their exclusion of Indigenous voices and the tendency to view the environment as a resource rather than a relative. This presentation will explore how meaningful environmental progress necessitates the dismantling of extractive conservation paradigms and the integration of Indigenous knowledge systems grounded in land-based relationality and kinship.
This program is open to all eligible persons regardless of race, color or national origin. Reasonable accommodations are available upon request, please contact the Native American House at nah@illinois.edu.