Diverse Stories of Resilience: Indigenous Wisdom is made possible by the Adrienne Arsht Community-Based Resilience Solutions Initiative. The first in the series, this video explores three powerful stories from Indigenous women, Brígida, Iguaigdigili, and Sharyl. From stories of people who embody resilience, to personal connections in Indigenous communities, we can inspire youth to make their own connections to resilience. As we move forward toward Life on a Sustainable Planet we ask: “What is your story of resilience?”
Video Description:
Blue logo of Life on a Sustainable Planet and the Smithsonian Institution yellow sunburst. Three logos with the Smithsonian sunburst for Smithsonian Science Education Center, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, National Museum of Natural History and a blue and green logo for the Office of Digital Transformation. A collage of an island with green trees and water on a beach, underwater scene, characters of the interviews in labs and museums, kids using a microscope, and exploring forests, and a woman walking on a beach as Diverse Stories of Resilience: Indigenous Knowledge appears on screen.
Boats and a lab in Panama City, Panama. A woman with dark brown hair and a bright pink traditional shirt. Surrounded by lab equipment and fossils. Images of her in a bright pink shirt at the front of a boat and a close-up of her face. Photographs of her with her father and a photo of her father alone in a white shirt leaning on a fence. Opening green drawers with fossils and explaining a tool in the lab. The woman in a green dress in a field with her parents seated in chairs. She sits at a microscope.
The ocean over islands with blue green water. A woman with short brown hair and glasses wearing a traditional green and yellow shirt. An image of her holding fabric and dressed in a traditional multicolored dress. Her grandfather in a room with wood paneling wearing all white and sitting in an armchair. She is walking on a beach. A group photograph of 12 women in traditional multicolored dresses. She is looking at the sunset.
A street scene of Washington D.C. A woman with long brown hair and a cream blazer with the background of a museum. Three small children and a grandfather next to an old pick-up truck. A field, pink flower, the woman in a traditional Native American dress. The woman in traditional Native American wardrobe in a graduation gown and a black and white image of a building in a field. A photograph of her mother wearing a yellow apron with long brown hair. The woman standing next to a display of a woven basket. The woman sits at her computer a picture frame and traditional Native American dolls and paintings. A photo of the woman in a traditional dress sitting on the pond near the Capitol building in the background.
A woman in an orange shirt overlooking a balcony, the woman in the lab with bright pink shirt and brown hair, a woman with brown hair explaining an exhibition at the museum, A woman with short brown hair surrounded by lights in a museum, a woman with a black long sleeve shirt writing in a notebook outside on the beach, and a woman in a traditional green and pink dress smiling on the beach, the stairs leading up to a museum with large granite pillars and banners, and then fades to white. The Smithsonian Science Education Center logo appears with a blue sunburst.
Credits:
Executive Producers - Dr. Ana Spalding, Dr. Carol O’Donnell
Managing Producers - Dr. Brian Mandell, Jimena Pitty
Associate Producers - Hannah Osborn, Dayana Agudo Atencio
Production Logistics Coordinator - Hannah Osborn
Managing Editor - Logan Werlinger
Associate Editors - Dr. Brian Mandell, Hannah Osborn
Writers - Logan Werlinger, Dr. Brian Mandell, Hannah, Jimena Pitty, Dr. Ana Spalding, Dr. Carol O’Donnell, Dayana Agudo Atencio, Heidi Gibson, Andre Radloff, Khadijah Thibodeaux
Researchers - Logan Werlinger, Dr. Brian Mandell, Hannah Osborn, Jimena Pitty, Dr. Ana Spalding, Dr. Carol O’Donnell, Dayana Agudo Atencio, Heidi Gibson, Andre Radloff, Khadijah Thibodeaux
Cast/Interviewees
Dr. Carla L. Easter
Brígida de Gracia Taylor
Alexandra Guzmán Bloise
Iguaigdigili Lopez
Sheryl Pahe-Short
Nyasha Warren
Narration English - Dr. Carol O’Donnell
Narration Spanish - Dr. Ana Spalding
Interview Translator - Kimberly García-Méndez
Director of Photography - Logan Werlinger
Assistant Director of Photography - Hannah Osborn
Underwater Camera Operators - Hannah Osborn, Javier Pardo
Boat Captain - Alexis Lam