Where Condor Meets Eagle
Topics: Traditional Knowledge, Ecosystems & Biodiversity
Where Condor Meets Eagle brought together an invited delegation of indigenous educators and community leaders from Minnesota and Bolivia in an afternoon of visual storytelling and cultural exchange in the Bell Museum’s Exploradome (opens in a new tab).
Part of the Augsburg Native American Film Series (opens in a new tab), the afternoon consisted of ceremony and dialogue about issues of community health, environment, cultural traditions, and cosmologies that unite the First Peoples of the Americas. The result of an agreement between the Bolivian Ministry of Decolonization and the Philips Indian Educators (opens in a new tab) in Minnesota, the program utilized the power of immersive, interactive visualization technology to explore astronomical, cultural, and Earth based imagery guided by participants and Worldviews’ facilitators Jim Rock and Joel Halvorson. Taking place in the All Nations’ Church in downtown Minneapolis, the program was dedicated to providing educational, multicultural, and cultural empowerment for Native people through an Indigenous film, art, and cultural exchange.
Program kit
Original production files and materials. Some formats require legacy software, and links to other sites may no longer work.
Script and storyboard, installer, and the data sources used.
Script & Storyboard
- Read the draft planning storyboard (web page)
- There is no script for this presentation: it was primarily improvised in collaboration with the visiting Bolivian delegation.
Data Sources
- University of Minnesota, Institute on the Environment (IonE). (Soy bean and corn land use layers)
- University of Minnesota, Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis Laboratory
- USGS (HYDROSHEDS for watersheds, rivers, GLOVIS for Lake Winnepeg Algae Bloom layer).
- NASA Landsat
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Global Deadzones)
- NASA Blue Marble (for Cryosphere data layer)
- Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network (for Minnesota Lakes layer)
- NatureServe (for Scarlet Tanager distribution layers
Videos and visualizations related to the program.
Tin mining in Bolivia: The Documentary
Surviving Climate Change in Bolivia
Bolivia: Glaciers Fall Victim to Climate Change
Adapting to Climate Change in Bolivia
Impacting Indigenous Culture: The Tar Sands of Northern Alberta
Reading and reference links for going further.
Arts & Education
- Center for Global Education (CGE) at Augsburg College (opens in a new tab)
- Phillips Indian Educators (opens in a new tab)
- American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) (opens in a new tab)
- NASA Summer Research Experience for Tribal College University Undergrads (opens in a new tab)
- Augsburg Native American Film Series (opens in a new tab)
- Interview with Jim Rock (opens in a new tab)
- Parkway Theater (opens in a new tab)
- All Nation’s Church, Minneapolis (opens in a new tab)
Tipnis Reserve Road Proposal
- Article and video about Bolivians protesting against indigenous people (opens in a new tab)
- Indigenous poeple fight to stop construction (opens in a new tab)
Water and Drought in Bolivia
- Bolivia declares natural disaster due to floods in 2001 (opens in a new tab)
- Drought (opens in a new tab)
- Climatologist predicts catastrophic drought (opens in a new tab)
- Rescuing trapped dolphins (opens in a new tab)
- Lake Titicaca’s low water levels affect animals (opens in a new tab)
- Lake Titicaca drought (opens in a new tab)
Mining
Indigenous Adaptation to Climate Change
(Global)
(South America)
- Climate Change Adaptation in Progress (opens in a new tab) (PDF)
- Reviving Ancient Traditional Knowledge (opens in a new tab)
(North America)
- Traditional Ecological Knowledge (opens in a new tab)
- Indigenous Environmental Network (opens in a new tab)
- Facing the Storm (opens in a new tab)
- NSF Cosmic Serpent Project (opens in a new tab) – Bridging indigenous ways of knowing with “western science” in informal science education.
- Haskell Environmental Research Studies Center (opens in a new tab)
- Indigenous Mapping Network (opens in a new tab)
Climate Change
(Global)
- Indigenous Peoples’ Biocultural Climate Change Assessment Initiative (opens in a new tab)
- Indigenous people’s global summit on climate change (opens in a new tab)
(South America)
- The Cochabamba Climate Court (opens in a new tab)
- Quechua and Aymara in Cochabamba (opens in a new tab)
- 350 Movement Video from Bolivia’s Climate Summit (opens in a new tab)
- “The Price of Fire” (opens in a new tab) – book about resource wars and social movements in Bolivia
- Activism and Politics in Latin America (opens in a new tab)
(North America)
- United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (opens in a new tab)
- Native Peoples Native Homelands Climate Change Workshop: The Mystic Lake Declaration (opens in a new tab)
- Native Peoples Native Homelands Climate Change Workshop II (opens in a new tab)
- Native Peoples Native Homelands Climate Change Workshop I Report, 1998 (opens in a new tab)
- Native American online news source (opens in a new tab)
- Indigenous Environmental Network (opens in a new tab)
- Intertribal Council On Utility Policy (opens in a new tab)
- Honor the Earth (opens in a new tab)
- Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation (opens in a new tab)
Indigenous Environmental Sovereignty
The people and organizations behind the program.
Partners
- Phillips Indian Educators
- Bolivian delegation and members from the Bolivian Ministry of Decolonization
- All Nations’ Church
- Augsburg College Center for Global Education
- UMN Bell Museum of Natural History
Funders
Presenters
- Joel Halvorson
- Jim Rock (Phillips Indian Educators)
Scriptwriters
- Joel Halvorson
- Jim Rock (Phillips Indian Educators)
- David McConville (The Elumenati)
- Ka Chun Yu (DMNS)
- Ned Gardiner (NOAA)
GIS & Visualizations
- Joel Halvorson
- Lindsay Irving (CAS)
- Lydia Hooper
Creative Direction
- David McConville (The Elumenati)
Production Coordination
- Lindsay Irving (CAS)
Event Coordination & Production
- Roxanne Gould (Phillips Indian Educators)
- M. Elise Marubbio
- Jim Rock (Phillips Indian Educators)
- David McConville (The Elumenati)
- Bell Museum of Natural History, Exploradome Program
- Augsburg College Center for Global Education
- Phillips Indian Educators
Science Advisors
- Healy Hamilton
- Ned Gardiner
Technical Support
- Ned Gardiner
- Lindsay Irving
- Greg Mancari
- David McConville
- Ka Chun Yu
Participants
- Bell Museum of Natural History, Exploradome Program
- Augsburg College Center for Global Education
- Phillips Indian Educators
- Bolivian delegation and members from the Bolivian Ministry of Decolonization