[MPWG] WEBINAR: First Nations: Ethical Landscapes, Sacred Plants; Nov 13, 2020; 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM ET

Carr, Amanda (Mandie) N ancarr at blm.gov
Wed Nov 4 11:43:40 CST 2020


WEBINAR: FIRST NATIONS: ETHICAL LANDSCAPES, SACRED PLANTS



*Webinar date/time: November 13, 2020; 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM ET



*Duration: 1.5 hours



*What will you learn?



This symposium will bring together Indigenous environmental experts from the United States and Canada to discuss how Native communities are researching and addressing threats to their lands from extractive industries, pollution, and climate change. The speakers will share Native understandings of the medicinal and nutritional value of plants and models of ethical and sustainable land use. They will also suggest how botanical gardens can learn from Indigenous plant experts in a spirit of respect and reciprocity and in full recognition of the ways in which these institutions have supported and profited from colonialism in the past. We will consider how to build a just alliance with Indigenous scholars to work together with due humility toward a more sustainable relationship with plants.



*Presenters:



Zoe Todd (Métis/otipemisiw) from Amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton), Alberta, Canada, artist and Associate Professor at Carlton Univ., Department of Sociology and Anthropology



Joe Baker, Executive Director of the Lenape Center, NY, and the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center in Mashantucket, CT. Enrolled Member of the Delaware Tribe of Indians, Bartlesville, OK



Janelle Marie Baker (Métis ancestry; collaborator with Bigstone Cree Nation), Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Athabasca University, Northern Alberta, Canada



Linda Black Elk (Catawba Nation), Ethnobotanist, Food Sovereignty Skills Coordinator at United Tribes Technical College, Bismarck, North Dakota



Kyle Whyte (Citizen Potawatomi Nation), Professor of Environment and Sustainability, and George Willis Pack Professor at the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability



Ashanti Shih, Yale University, postdoctoral scholar at University of Southern California’s Society of Fellows in the Humanities. Former Mellon Fellow, NYBG Humanities Institute



*Details and Registration: https://www.nybg.org/event/first-nations-ethical-landscapes-sacred-plants/



*Webinar sponsored by: New York Botanical Garden’s Humanities Institute, Yale University, and the Mellon Foundation

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