Finding a Third Way: Dan Longboat in Conversation with Joe Brewer

Earth is in an unprecedented moment in history. Never before have humans affected the entire planet, causing changes that usually happen slowly over thousands of years to happen in decades and trigger various tipping points. Indigenous peoples warned colonists that going against Natural Law, which starts in your bioregion and place, is like going against life and moving toward your own demise. We need the best of Indigenous ways of knowing and knowledge combined with the best of Western science. Can we find a Third Way forward?

Dr. Dan Longboat is an Associate Professor in the Chanie Wenjack School for Indigenous Studies at Trent University, and Director of the Indigenous Environmental Studies and Sciences Program, the first of its kind in North America to blend Indigenous knowledge and Western science. In a dynamic and multilayered conversation with global regeneration leader Joe Brewer, he explores a Third Way forward.