FES Faculty Staff Students Registration Required

Who:

The event will feature Charles Sams III (Cayuse and Walla Walla), Director of the United States National

Park Service; Krystal Two Bulls (Oglala Lakota and Northern Cheyenne), LANDBACKCampaign Director for

NDN Collective; Kevin Washburn (Chickasaw), N. William Hines Dean and Professor of Law at University of

Iowa; and will be moderated by Gerald Torres, Professor of Law and Environmental Justice at Yale School of the

Environment.

What:

The conversation will explore a number of questions including: What is the #landback movement, what

has been achieved, and what is still needed to build indigenous power in US land stewardship? How can 30x30

policy goals under the Biden Administration support indigenous land rematriation goals? What are some

interim policies and co-management strategies that can build indigenous power and help to write historical

wrongs both locally and nationally? What are core principles and strategies environmental managers can

embody as allies and accomplices in this movement?

Details and Registration :

This will be a hybrid event, with speakers and guests attending in person as well as virtually over zoom (we hope

to record the event as well). Dinner will be provided for the first 50 in-person registrants.

Partners: The event is made possible through the collaboration and support of the Wyss Foundation, the

Native American Cultural Center at Yale, the Yale Center for Environmental Justice, the Law Ethics and Animal

Program (LEAP) at Yale Law School, the Ucross High Plains Stewardship Initiative, and the Ecosystems

Conservation & Management and People and PE2 learning communities.

Questions: email kyle.lemle@yale.edu