Nearly 40 people gathered for a conversation about climate change from an indigenous perspective at the Native Land Conservancy’s annual meeting on Sunday.
The event, held at the Waquoit Bay Estuarine Research Reserve, offered a window into how personal climate change is for Wampanoag people.
“It elicits emotion because this is what we know. We know the water. We’re a fishing tribe,” said Leslie Jonas, vice-chair of the Native Land Conservancy, as her voice broke. “And we’re some of the most vul