04: Rising Tides

With thousands of years of experience in land stewardship, indigenous communities—more specifically, their everyday relationship with the ocean as a site of knowing—provide a radical alternative to the dominant cultural response to the ongoing climate crisis. For the final episode of our first season, University of Hawai'i professor Candace Fujikane and Native American scholar Dina Gilio-Whitaker explore how some groups are turning to indigenous traditions bound to the sea to help overcome cultural anxieties about sea-level rise and climate change.