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We have partnered with NOVA and GBH to bring to you the upcoming digital series, Legacy of the Land. This series parallels the 3-part NOVA special presentation, Sea Change: The Gulf of Maine. Legacy of the Land is a 6-part series that highlights Indigenous climate change stories from Native communities across the United States. The stories give insights into Indigenous knowledge and science from Native American and Alaska Native tribes, traditions, and cultures.  

Watch all 6 episodes on the NOVA website on Friday, Sept. 13th or they will premiere 1 episode/week starting on Sunday, Sept. 15th on the NOVA’s YouTube channel. Read about each episode below. 

  • September 15th: Harvesting the Future
  • September 22nd: Tides of Tradition
  • September 29th: Standing the Heat
  • October 6th: Keepers of the Coastline
  • October 13th: Sands of Time
  • October 20th: Megadrought & Indigenous Voices

September 15th: Harvesting the Future

Wenona and Sal Baldenegro (Tucson, AZ) – Agriculture can thrive in the desert. The Tohono O’odham people have used Ak Chin farming, a form of dry farming, to grow crops for thousands of years, and in this short documentary, cultural experts demonstrate these traditional practices as well as implementations for future community planning.

Sal Baldenegro
Wenona Benally Baldenegro (Navajo)

September 22nd: Tides of tradition

Kanesia McGlashan-Price (Unalaska, Alaska) – Communities like the Unangax̂ rely on traditional foodways in lieu of customary, expensive grocery suppliers. Following the journey of a local subsistence hunter, we learn the realities of food access in the changing Arctic and the values that inform their harvest.
Kanesia McGlashan-Price (Unangax̂)

September 29th: Standing the Heat

Steven Tallas (Navajo)

Steven Tallas (Navajo Nation) – In a journey of reconnection, filmmaker Steven Tallas explores the hogan – a small, unassuming traditional structure found across the Navajo Nation. Remaining cool in the summers and warm in the winters, this short film revisits the hogan amidst a warming American southwest.

October 6th: keepers of the coastline

Jeremy Charles (Smith River, California) – In 2023, the Tolowa Dee-ni’ people alongside partnering tribes asserted sovereignty over the 700 square miles of their ancestral fisheries. Now in 2024, we see how marine science and resource management can be guided by community and culture.
Jeremy Charles (Cherokee)

October 13th: Sands of time

Anna Hoover (Unangax̂)

Anna Hoover (Bristol Bay, Alaska) – In an observational survey, this short documentary presents the realities of coastal erosion by witnessing the experience of Bristol Bay community members. Interviews, local archives, and ancestral knowledge put the circumstances in stark relief as we detail the communities’ adjustments to the retreating coastline.

October 20th: Megadrought & indigenous voices

Natives Outdoors (Colorado Plateau) – The Southwestern United States is experiencing a megadrought, but this isn’t the first time people have survived one in the region. By highlighting ideas and practices from Navajo tradition, the story recenters our relationship to water.

Rachel Baldwin (Brothertown Indian Nation)
Isaiah Branch-Boyle (Ute/Navajo/Apache)
Dr. Len Necefer, PhD (Navajo)

Walt Pourier

Vice Chair

Walt is Oglala Lakota and created the logo for Urban Rez. He is Creative Director, owner of Nakota Designs Advertising Designs and Graphics. Executive Director of the Stronghold Society nonprofit dedicated to instilling hope and supporting youth movements through Live Life Call To Action Campaigns.

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lynn palmanteer-holder

Lynn Palmanteer-Holder, an Indigenous plateau woman of North Central Washington and member of eight of twelve Tribes of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation. Lynn recently retired as inaugural Director of Tribal Government Affairs for Washington State Board of Community and Technical Colleges, the state’s oversight agency of 34 CTCs.  She is a highly accomplished professional that spans over 40 years. She is an experienced educator that has a demonstrated history across K12, post-secondary & higher education as a teacher, school counselor, superintendent, researcher, and professor. Also, she has diverse experience as an entrepreneur, Tribal leader and administrator. She is skilled in curriculum and program development, facilitating government to government relationships that led to formal partnerships between state institutions and Tribes developing custom programs. Lynn has served on many boards and has been recognized for various statewide, and national awards. She has several scholarly publications and has done various conference presentations and speaking engagements, at the local, national and international level. Lynn holds a Ph.C. (ABD) in Social Welfare Policy from University of Washington. She earned her M.Ed., with a concentration in counseling psychology from Washington State University and B.Ed., in K12 Education from Eastern Washington University. Lynn is a wife of 49 years, a mother of three adult professional children, granny of 10 and great granny to two. Lynn and her husband are high school sweethearts, and together enjoy time with their 15+ two-legged blessings.