John Scott, PhD is an artist, activist, researcher, educator, and lover of water, who is of African and Choctaw decent. His comprehensive we-are-water-narratives project includes interviewing elders, academics, artists, environmentalists, indigenous peoples from across the globe, identifying and exploring their human relationship with water as they connect to our larger environmental systemic issues. Some of his driving questions are,
"If we, as human beings, can identify, analyze, and explore our personal relationship with water, how does this new found awareness have the potential to transform our behavior towards water and the earth in a radically new light?"
and...
"What can indigenous narratives and wisdom teach us about nurturing and protecting our most sacred resource, water?"
From indigenous organizers in New Mexico to community garden keepers in Oakland, CA to community leaders building water wells in Uganda, John interviews and elicits powerfully complex water narratives from a globally diverse group of indigenous leaders and organizations.
These inspiring narratives are meant to be an invitation for all of us to reflect upon our own relationship with water, hopefully inspiring us to transform our behavior in a way that continues protecting and sustaining one of our most sacred and natural elements, Water.
