'Our indigenous cultures have taught us through our languages, stories, and practices that our identity is tied to the land. So what happens to us as the climate changes? Our identity is impacted.' CoveringClimateNow
, and indigenous peoples are self-identified, among us we share many common characteristics. For example, most of us have indigenous languages, land that we connect to and identify with, and stories and cultural practices that are passed down and used in our daily lives. Many of our cultures and languages are deeply tied to the way we know and interact with the natural world around us., it was described to me as being the connection between our feet and our Mother Earth.
Our indigenous cultures have taught us through our languages, stories, and practices that our identity is tied to the land. So what happens to us as the climate changes? Our identity is impacted. The ways we know how to farm, fish, and hunt must also change. Our practices, languages, and stories will need to adapt to explain the new relationship or identity we experience through climate change.
, a community with whom I have been able to learn about how climate change impacts my global indigenous family from across our seven self-organized regions: Africa, the Arctic, The Pacific, North America, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, and Russia and Eastern Europe. I mentioned how, recently, widespread panic and worry have occurred, thinking about the 1.5 degrees Celsius mark of global warming. According to the WWF Arctic Programme, the average temperature of
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