Kyle X. Hill
“Indigenous Peoples share traditional belief systems, languages and spiritualities that recognize our interconnectedness and relationship to our ecosystems. For these reasons, among others, Indigenous peoples have served as principle stewards of our natural world and protect 80% of the world’s biodiversity, despite representing only 6% or the population. In many respects, climate justice and resilience from Indigenous perspectives honor the sovereignty of Indigenous knowledge systems and their capacity to adapt to the current challenges posed by climate change, and redressing the underlying determinant and symptom of our climate crisis, settler-colonialism.”
Kyle X. Hill, Ph. D., M.P.H is Ojibwe (Turtle Mountain Band; Enrolled Citizen), Dakota (Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe), Lakota (Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe). Dr. Hill is currently an assistant professor with the University of North Dakota, school of medicine and health sciences, department of Indigenous Health. Most recently, Dr. Hill completed his MPH through the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2020. He is active in community-based participatory research with American Indian and First Nations communities in the U.S. and Canada while also collaborating on research projects across social, behavioral and environmental health within Native communities. In particular, his research interests consider the social, political and ecological determinants of health, as well as climate justice and decolonizing health and wellness in Indigenous communities. He currently lives on his Dakota and Anishinaabe traditional homelands in St. Paul, MN.
Profile: https://und.edu/directory/kyle.hill
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylehill-phdmph-anpetuluta/