The Salazar Center is proud to announce that James Rattling Leaf, Principal, Wolakota Lab LLC will be joining us in Denver, Colorado for the fifth-annual International Symposium on Conservation Impact.
James serves as a guide and inspiration to organizations to work more effectively with Indigenous Peoples for a more equitable world in his role as a global Indigenous Consultant and Principal of the Wolakota Lab, LLC. He has over 25 years’ working with the U.S. federal government, higher education institutions and non-profits. He specializes in developing programs that utilize the interface between Indigenous people’s traditional knowledge and western science. He sees a greater vision of human knowledge that incorporates the many insights of human cultures and provides a context for our better understanding of the planet and the world.
James is a founding member of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Indigenous Alliance that was established at GEO Week 2019 in Canberra, Australia to foster a continued, effective, respectful, and reciprocal relationship with GEO and representatives of indigenous communities from around the world. He was born on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and is a citizen of the Oceti Sakowin, Sicangu Lakota. His higher education comes from Sinte Gleska University.
Resources
What is Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Why Does it Matter?