Interview with Michael Kotutwa Johnson, a Hopi dry farmer and an assistant professor of Indigenous resilience at the University of Arizona’s School of Natural Resources and the Environment

21/04/2025 10 min
Interview with Michael Kotutwa Johnson, a Hopi dry farmer and an assistant professor of Indigenous resilience at the University of Arizona’s School of Natural Resources and the Environment

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Student Project Manager Noah Salsich ’25 interviews Michael Kotutwa Johnson, a 250th generation Hopi dry farmer and an assistant professor of Indigenous resilience at the University of Arizona’s School of Natural Resources and the Environment. In this interview, Kotutwa Johnson talks about the importance of Indigenous recognition, as well as comments on modern sustainable agricultural techniques and land-back movements. The interview also touches on some of the pushback Indigeous people have faced from the scientific community and Dr. Johnson’s responses to this.

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