Ranjan DattaRanjan Datta is the Canada Research Chair in Community Disaster Research at Indigenous Studies, Department of Humanities, Mount Royal University, Calgary. Alberta, Canada. Dr. Datta's current research interests include advocating for Indigenous Land-ights, Indigenous community disaster research, community resiliency on climate change, community-based participatory action research, decolonization, and Indigenous reconciliation. Dr. Datta published 95 peer-reviewed publications, four books, and seven edited books on responsibilities on decolonization, cross-cultural perspectives on reconciliation, Indigenous water, Indigenous climate change, anti-racist perspectives on climate change, and environmental sustainability issues. Dr. Datta has developed a strong understanding of decolonial and Indigenist research frameworks in his 17 years conducting research with Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities in Canada, the USA, Africa, Europe, and South Asia. He is strongly committed to and passionate about Indigenous environmental sustainability, reconciliation, environmental management, Indigenous land rights, anti-racist theory and practice, decolonization, social and environmental justice, community gardens, and cross-cultural research methodology and methods. He has worked and advocated for protecting the Indigenous environment, Land, and sustainability, particularly with South Asian and North American Indigenous communities. He is dedicated to building cross-cultural bridges within Canada among Indigenous, immigrant, and refugee communities. Being born and raised as a minority land-based researcher from Bangladesh, I am reminded that working with Indigenous peoples and communities around the world involves a journey of taking responsibility that can be empowering, rewarding, and challenging at the same time. However, having been displaced from my community's Indigenous Land because of our Indigenous identity and culture, I am thankful to Indigenous peoples in Canada who shared their Land-based health knowledge and practice for my growth. Along my land-based decolonization journey, it is vitally important that I take responsibility for building authentic relationships with the Indigenous people, learning North America colonial histories, and being part of the Indigenous struggle. Read More Read Less