Anishinabek Knowledge and Climate Disaster

Author ORCID Identifier

Deborah McGregor: 0000-0003-0358-6054

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-16-2025

Source Publication

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Natural Hazard Science. April 16, 2025. Oxford University Press.

Keywords

Anishinabek; Anishinabek legal traditions; Anishinabek laws; Indigenous climate perspectives; Indigenous relationality; Traditional Ecological Knowledge

Abstract

An Anishinabek-specific framing of climate-related problems and approaches highlights place-based examples of relationships affected by climate change. Policy framings that exclude and undermine Indigenous nations and communities in domestic and international contexts have dominated for generations in North America and elsewhere. While not being prescriptive, Indigenous approaches offer elemental considerations for inclusion of multiple. Innovative perspectives that can address problems caused by climate change and other environmental degradations. By drawing from Anishinabek Traditional Knowledge and peoples’ relationship to place, climate change is understood as a relational problem, through multiple angles that foreground Indigenous history and reality to bring insight on understanding responsibilities between species.

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