AJELP Spring Symposium on Indigenous Land Stewardship - Panel 4

Panel 4: Indigenous Knowledge in Land Stewardship Law and Policy
The University of Arizona Law’s Arizona Journal of Environmental Law and Policy (AJELP) hosted the Spring Symposium on Indigenous Land Stewardship, April 6 and 7, at the University of Arizona campus.
The hybrid symposium brought together a diverse array of leaders from tribal communities, academia, the public sector, and advocacy organizations to discuss current efforts within the field of Indigenous land stewardship and its intersections with domestic and international law and policy.
This is the recording of the fourth panel of Day 2 of the Symposium, entitled Indigenous Knowledge in Land Stewardship Law and Policy. It was moderated by UArizona Professor Ronald R. Trosper (Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes). This panel featured Jade Begay (Diné and Tesuque Pueblo), Director of Policy & Advocacy for NDN Collective; Jose Francisco Calí Tzay (Maya Kaqchikel), UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; Ron Goode (North Fork Mono), Chairman of the North Fork Mono Tribe; and Anthony (Morgan) Rodman (Cherokee Nation and Osage Nation), Executive Director of the White House Council on Native American Affairs. The panel discussed how to define Indigenous knowledge, on-the-ground applications of Indigenous knowledge such as cultural burning in California forests, and recent efforts to incorporate and protect Indigenous knowledge in federal policy and in international conservation and climate change negotiations.