Land Guardianship Reconnects Communities

Shauna Yeomans is a Yukon First Nations Climate Action Fellow. In conversation with Matthew Monahan.

• Reconnection is Climate Action: https://reconnection.vision/

TOPICS

• 00:00 Intro

• 01:36 Shauna’s context and experience at Bioneers

• 06:01 Treaties and unseated territories

• 11:15 Grief and disconnection in communities

• 15:35 What reconnection means to Shauna

• 23:50 Early childhood development

• 26:01 Residential schools

• 32:34 Reconnection to the watershed

• 35:37 What’s giving Shauna hope

RESOURCES

• Yukon First Nations Climate Action Fellowship: https://www.yfnclimate.ca/

• Residential Schools in Canada: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_school_system

• RIVER Collective: https://www.weareriver.earth/

This interview took place during Bioneers 2023: https://bioneers.org