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CSTPR’s Inside the Greenhouse and Native Voice 1 are pleased to present a half-hour documentary special, “Indigenous Women Telling a New Story on Energy” featuring Winona LaDuke. This radio show is being released on Earth Day and will be available to native radio stations across the nation.
Indigenous women have a new story to tell for our energy future.
The current story being told by our energy policies, practices and industry are devastating the land and changing climate. This program is an engaging and entertaining call to action for a new energy story that protects our land and its people.
If we need a new story for energy, we likely need new storytellers. These energy stories told by Indigenous women seek to carry forth the wisdom from their ancestors and combine it with the intelligence available to us today. They include a desire for fair and just distribution of energy. These stories seek out a sacred balance between humans and the Earth.
Women primarily from the Navajo Nation share their views on energy’s past, present, and future through this radio broadcast, a project developed by Beth Osnes, associate professor of theatre and dance at the University of Colorado Boulder and co-founder of Inside the Greenhouse. Osnes worked closely on the radio show with Adrian Manygoats of the Navajo Nation as part of the Navajo Women’s Energy Project, a group they co-founded. As preparation for recording the interviews, Osnes and Manygoats met with women to deeply listen to their feelings, beliefs, fears and hopes toward how energy is extracted, used, and distributed. They facilitated creative sessions for women to express their vision for energy’s future, identify action steps and potential obstacles, and together create possible solutions for a clean energy future. Read more …
