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SUMMARY: How can the modern study of global change benefit from ancient knowledge? Special correspondent John Larson reports on the new ways indigenous communities around the world are connecting with one another to share observations and sustain their native cultures.
JOHN LARSON (for Newshour): You’re aboard a motorized canoe traveling the headwaters of the Amazon – on the Urabamba River, of Peru. Now, you travel the Giraffe River, a tributary of the White Nile in South Sudan.
And now? You are navigating the Stewart of Canada, a tributary of the longest, free flowing river on earth: the Yukon, of North America.
JOHN LARSON: All of the these are among the most remote rivers in the world, and the indigenous people who live along them are being connected, at least in part, by one man.
JON WATERHOUSE, tribal leader and environmentalist: “We had a couple of canoes and we were going to go down the river, and talk to people in every village along the way.”
Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council – the largest international organization of indigenous people in the world
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