Culture isn’t the first thing people tend to associate with environmental issues. For Pitap, a Menominee basketmaker, though, it’s all too familiar a connection.
Thanks to changes in climate, a invasive bug called the emerald ash borer is now decimating the black ash trees that Menominee have harvested to weave baskets for thousands of years.
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#UWMadison professors brought Indigenous knowledge and science together to improve how we communicate about environmental issues.
🎥 Elise Mahon