After landing Saturday night back home from Glasgow, I spent this week presenting back to groups about COP26- giving the run down on outcomes, sharing the reactions from the media, activists, governments, etc. As the week has worn on I’ve realized that while my brain has been able to process and share what happened, the […]
Preparing to make the 13-hour journey home to Minneapolis, I have several reflections on my COP26 experience in Glasgow, Scotland. While I am still unpacking much of this experience, I have come to understand the unfortunate and opportunistic agreement that is now known as the Glasgow Climate Pact. As a delegate we were not afforded […]
There’s this scene in Smoke Signals, this native movie, where the main character’s mother is grieving and she says something like “my heart is in the living room and my brain is in the kitchen and my feet are out in the yard.” That’s sort of how I’m feeling coming home from Scotland, from COP26. […]
Ho mitakuyepi, hello my relatives! On a rainy day in Glasgow, Scotland I hugged my cohort mates and said see you when we meet again as we parted ways. Our week-two team has begun our journeys home after a long week of discussion, protest, and advocacy for protection of Unci Maka – Grandmother Earth. We […]
When I was younger, I enjoyed scavenger hunts. In particular, I spent a lot of time exploring “I Spy” and “Where’s Waldo?” books, in which readers were given a list of items to find in a busy visual scene. Today, I invite you to join me on a similar scavenger hunt. The scene is the […]
It’s been a few days since I got back to Saint Paul, Minnesota, from my incredible trip to Glasgow and I’ve had time to reflect on COP26 as a whole. Coming back to school, as the only in-person student delegate at COP from my university, has required me to be a face for the conference […]
The last two weeks have been an intense transformative experience. When I embraced the opportunity to participate in COP26, I was not sure where the journey would take me. I now realize that this is an evolving journey, and I am all in for the long haul and will continue to work for the future […]
It’s an incredible privilege to get to come to COP. It’s a privilege to get to have a badge and go inside the heavily guarded fences. And tonight, Kristen asked us: do you think this was worth it? And I said yes. Yes, because I got to make some amazing new friends and comrades in […]
In the past couple days our Indigenous delegation with Climate Generation has presented on two panels, one on climate justice on Turtle Island, and another on Indigenous resistance to the Line 3 pipeline. In both instances we advocated for Indigenous rights, sovereignty and self-determination in the wake of extractive projects that have only caused irreparable […]
As Indgenous people attending COP26, things can feel complicated. So many of the issues impacting our people are not well represented. Our people are not well represented. But today was a day that felt good. We started the day with a panel at the U.S. Climate Action Center on Indigenous Resistance to the Line 3 […]