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Join or Host a Reading Group
Join or Host a Reading Group
We are meeting online every other Tuesday through the end of the Spring 2026 semester at either 9am or 1pm.
If you’d like to join one of these groups, please reach out to the meeting host:
9am: Caitlin Ryan, caitlin.ryan@uwyo.edu
1pm: Mary Keller, mary.keller@uwyo.edu
See below for more information.
If you cannot join the online reading group, please see our suggested independent reading scheudle below.
Suggested Independent Reading Schedule:
Suggested Independent Reading Schedule:
Session 1: Introduction to Indigenous Environmental Studies
Session 1: Introduction to Indigenous Environmental Studies
Discussion themes:
What counts as knowledge and who decides?
Who benefits from dominant ideas of resilience and who is left out?
Session 2: Time as Kinship
Session 2: Time as Kinship
Reading: Time as Kinship
Discussion themes:
What changes when time is relational instead of linear?
How do stories hold knowledge across generations?
Session 3: Rethinking Climate Crisis
Session 3: Rethinking Climate Crisis
Reading: Against Crisis Epistemology
Discussion themes
What happens when climate change is framed as a crisis vs. responsibility?
How different cultures undrestand time and environmental change
Session 4: Indigenous Environmental Futures
Session 4: Indigenous Environmental Futures
Watch: Listening to Earth: Indigenous Wisdom & Climate Futures
Discussion themes
Kinship relationships with land, water, and wildlife
Indigenous leadership in climate adaptation
Session 5: Indigenous Climate Change Studies
Session 5: Indigenous Climate Change Studies
Reading: Indigenous Climate Change Studies: Indigenizing Futures, Decolonizing the Anthropocene
Discussion themes:
How Indigenous knowledge shapes climate adaptation
Relationships between land, culture, and environmental stewardship
Session 6: Climate Change and Historical Responsibility
Session 6: Climate Change and Historical Responsibility
Reading: Our Ancestors’ Dystopia Now: Indigenous Conservation and the Anthropocene
Discussion themes:
How past policies shape present environmental challenges
Connections between land history and climate adaptation
Connecting to Wyoming
Connecting to Wyoming
This visit comes at an important time in Wyoming, as communities across the Wind River headwaters face growing challenges around climate change, water, and land stewardship.
Whyte's work helps connect these efforts with Indigenous perspectives, supporting more thoughtful, long-term approaches to environmental change.
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