Episode XI, Patrick Anderson (Tlingit) Part II
Race, Resource, and Responsibility, Crisis on the Tundra.
Interview by Filmmaker, Journaliist, Robert Lundahl.
Patrick Anderson, Thunderbird Clan, Tlingit Attorney, Health Administrator and tribal manager discusses the Health of Alaska Natives in the era of Climate Change.
Patrick most recently served as CEO of Alaska Rural Cap, and as a long term board member of Sealaska Corporation.
Patrick’s focus is on Toxic Stress, Adverse Childhood Experiences (Aces), and intergenerational trauma.
Where do we go from here in the face of enormous costs of survival and tenuous connections to traditional resource harvesting and utilization, the bowhead whale, now nearly inaccessible to hunters due to the loss of pack ice.
You have joined us, on Nature’s Touch, Climate Change is Here. I’m your host, Robert Lundahl, Filmmaker and Journalist.
With me today is Patrick Anderson, a health care and tribal administrator, with the Indian Health Service, the Makah Tribe, and his latest position, CEO of Alaska RurAL Cap.
Where does the environment leave off, and our semi porous epidermis begin, transporting the outside in from noxious chemicals to bacteria and viral invaders, we are connected in ways we are not always aware from the environment to our biochemical reactions to stress, often across generations. How do we go from here, into a future of consequential change and perhaps innovation.
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