Activism
With members of the Indigenous environmental justice group "Red Thunder" on the Ft. Belknap reservation, summer 2016.
Rosalyn is an award winning Indigenous writer, environmental historian, and ethnobotanist.
Indigenous Environmental Activism & Advocacy
Central to strengthening Indigenous communities is access to a clean and healthy environment. Rosalyn works to help protect our earth, address the growing climate change & environmental justice.
Rosalyn recently worked to stop mountain top coal removal in the Rocky Mountains within Blackfoot Territory. (See her commentary “Mountaintop Removal Threatens Traditional Blackfoot Territory,” in High Country News.)
She co-founded Saokio Heritage, a community-based organization, which serves as a platform to amplify the voices of Indigenous women activists & writers. She is currently working to strengthen public policy for Indigenous languages with the National Coalition of Native American Language Schools and Programs. She believes that embedded within Indigenous languages is a community’s environmental knowledge.
Previous Activism & Advocacy
Rosalyn served for two terms (2013-2019) on the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC), a Federal Advisory Committee to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) & served on NEJAC’s Youth Perspectives on Climate Change Work Group, to address environmental justice issues.
Rosalyn helped organized the national March for Science and served on the National Steering Committee. March for Science, held on April 22, 2017 in Washington, D.C., and in more than 600 cities world wide. With more than a million participants, it was the largest day of science activism in history. She co-wrote the Indigenous Science Statement, which was read on the stage in DC & at rallies around the world.
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