HEALTH AND CLIMATE SOLUTIONS ORAL STORYTELLING PROJECT
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SWINOMISH INDIAN TRIBAL COMMUNITY
"Hopefully, as time goes by, the bigger world will recognize that we have something to offer that would be good, not just for tribes, but for everyone." - Larry Campbell
"The average person doesn't think about climate change when they wake up in the morning. There's too many other things. 'Where's my food going to come from? Am I gonna have a place to sleep?' But when we really connected climate change to Swinomish views of health (which is very much connected to family, culture, indigenous foods, and medicines) then people were really interested in coming to the table. And so I think that was one of the biggest successes of the project. In the world of competing information, what brings people to the table is what they care about." - Jamie Donatuto
"The average person doesn't think about climate change when they wake up in the morning. There's too many other things. 'Where's my food going to come from? Am I gonna have a place to sleep?' But when we really connected climate change to Swinomish views of health (which is very much connected to family, culture, indigenous foods, and medicines) then people were really interested in coming to the table. And so I think that was one of the biggest successes of the project. In the world of competing information, what brings people to the table is what they care about." - Jamie Donatuto
The project consists of three main objectives: (1) if and how the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community’s approach to amending the Building Resilience Against Climate Effects framework achieved the community’s goals, and what factors contributed to or detracted from project success; (2) the influence of the project on addressing the health impacts of climate change and advancing health equity locally and regionally; and, (3) how other communities may learn from this process to tackle similar issues using a values- based approach. The team completed the first phase of the project: asking Swinomish community members, Swinomish staff, and Indigenous health and climate experts external to the Tribe if and how the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community’s approach to amending the BRACE framework achieved the community’s goals, and what factors contributed to or detracted from project success. Phase 2 of the project is currently underway: determining the influence of the project on addressing the health impacts of climate change and advancing health equity locally and regionally. In this phase, the team completed a Swinomish Photovoice project where community members submitted images and captions about what climate change and health mean to them. Swinomish Indian Tribal Community is in the process of revising its Indigenous health and climate change online learning modules with a cohort of Indigenous representatives from across the US. In the coming summer, the team will be interviewing Washington State program managers about the feasibility of centering Indigenous frameworks for climate change adaptation in public policies and initiatives. In the final phase, the data will be evaluated and the findings and lessons learned will be shared.
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