Discover how Indigenous knowledge connects the care of land and water with food security, cultural identity, and community resilience. Through the experiences of Hopi, Karuk, and Blackfeet communities, this documentary explores living stewardship practices passed down through generations-and their relevance to today's environmental challenges. In northern Arizona, Hopi farmer Michael Kotutwa Johnson demonstrates how dryland farming, drought-adapted corn, and seed diversity sustain agriculture in an arid landscape. Karuk community members reveal how cultural burning supports traditional food gathering, basketry materials, river health, and wildfire resilience. On Blackfeet lands, buffalo restoration renews ecological and cultural relationships with an animal central to the community's history and identity. Examining the effects of colonization and the disruption of traditional stewardship, Inhabitants: Indigenous Knowledge and Environmental Stewardship shows how these distinct communities sustain and renew practices that connect environmental care with cultural continuity. Bringing together environmental science, Indigenous studies, agriculture, and American history, the program invites viewers to consider how knowledge rooted in place can inform a more resilient future.

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