Lorén M. Spears at TEDxURI 2021
Climate Change: An Indigenous Perspective
Lorén Spears, citizen of the Narragansett Nation, and Executive Director of the Tomaquag Museum, Rhode Island’s only Indigenous-led museum, shares important things that can be learned from Indigenous ways of knowing and how “environmental justice equals Indigenous rights”. She emphasizes the principle of giving back that which has been taken as a way to create life preserving balance.
Lorén M. Spears
Director of Tomaquag Museum
Lorén M. Spears, Narragansett, Executive Director of Tomaquag Museum, holds a Master’s in Education and received a Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, from the University of Rhode Island. She is an author, artist and shares her cultural knowledge with the public through museum programs. She has written curriculum, poetry, and narratives published in a variety of publications such as Dawnland Voices, An Anthology of Indigenous Writing of New England; Through Our Eyes: An Indigenous View of Mashapaug Pond; The Pursuit of Happiness: An Indigenous View and From Slaves to Soldiers: The 1st Rhode Island Regiment in the American Revolution. Recently, she co-edited a new edition of A Key into the Language of America by Roger Williams.