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Advisory Committee for Environmental Research and Education

Biography

Photo of Dr. Daniel Wildcat, AC-ERE member

Daniel Wildcat
Director
Haskell Environmental Research Studies
Haskell Indian Nations University
155 Indian Avenue
Lawrence, Kansas 66046
dwildcat@haskell.edu

Committee term end date: December 31, 2024


Daniel Wildcat is a professor at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas, and an accomplished scholar who writes on Indigenous knowledge, technology, environment, and education. He is also director of the Haskell Environmental Research Studies Center, which he founded with colleagues from the Center for Hazardous Substance Research at Kansas State University. Wildcat helped design a four-part video series entitled All Things Are Connected: The Circle of Life (1997), which dealt with the land, air, water, biological, and policy issues facing Native nations. A Yuchi member of the Muscogee Nation of Oklahoma, Wildcat recently formed the American Indian and Alaska Native Climate Change Working Group, a tribal-college-centered network of individuals and organizations working on climate change issues. (Term expiresL 2024)