Shifting Ground engages with professionals, teachers, artists, and museum curators to uncover the stories behind their work inspired by global warming and climate change. These voices, from both Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities in Yukon and northern Canada, reflect the deep connection to their environment and the urgency for change amidst profound challenges. Through intimate conversations, the series reveals the passion, resilience, and love of those closest to these issues.
Conversations
Andrea Reid
UBC professor Andrea Reid, explains how rising river temperatures disrupt salmon habitats, threaten migration, and impact Indigenous and local communities. She addresses the resilience of Indigenous peoples, teaching and learning, and the wisdom of the elders of her community.
Andrea Reid is a citizen of the Nisga’a Nation and is an Assistant Professor, UBC Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, and Canada Research Chair in the Centre for Indigenous Fisheries.
Asia Winter-Sinnot
Asia Winter-Sinnott is a Vancouver-based Indigenous art teacher who grew up in Mayo, Yukon. Asia Winter-Sinnott highlights the lives of Yukon communities facing global warming and mining, their challenges, and resilience.
Fran Morberg-Green
Artist and curator Fran Morberg-Green explores traditional plant knowledge and land resilience in addressing the challenges of modern climate change.
Jackie Olson
Artist and curator Jackie Olson also is an Indigenous faculty member of the Yukon University School of the Visual Arts. Based in Dawson City, she highlights the growing salmon shortage and the impacts of colonialism. She is an activist who uses her work to raise awareness about these and other pressing local and global issues.
Darcy Tara McDiarmid
Artist Darcy Tara McDiarmid is based in Dawson City. Her artwork addresses her deeply rooted Indigenous family heritage in communities in the Northwest. Her artwork draws on ancestral teachings as she creates work that reconnects with nature, land, and animals amid climate change.
