Today I gave a 30-minute webinar on Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples at a conference organized by SUNY-Plattsburgh. Students helped me expand the case studies, showing how specific peoples are being affected by climate change. You want data? This talk has serious data.

When academia breaks out of the ivory tower, good things can happen. Once again, my students are reporting on tribal issues in the national media. Read and learn! California Students Research the Impact of Drought on Tribes Indian County Today Media Network • March 9, 2015 ” The relationship between the Hoopa and fish of […]

How do we effect change? We march. We put ourselves out on the streets with tens, hundreds, thousands of other people. In this case, I marched on February 7th in Oakland, CA for Climate Leadership with over twenty of my San Jose State University students. Before we hit the streets, we held a circle in […]

AT LONG LAST, the appointed person, the requisite form, and the necessary typewriter all converged in the same time-space zone in the final phase of my research permitting process at the Indonesian Social-Political Ministry…continue reading

DAY TWO IN THE JAKARTAN BEHEMOTH involved dizzying circular visits to Immigration, the Indonesian Institute for Sciences, and the dreaded Sosial-Politik (Sospol) ministry. The latter we nicknamed “Cesspool,” both for the comportment of its bureaucrats and the hopeless fate of necessary documents….continue reading For Part 1, click here.