Fall into nature with Plantlife: Indigenous Ways of Knowing the Prairie Grasslands of Turtle Island-North America
In Indigenous worldview, relationship is the most fundamental process of life. Knowledge emerges from reciprocal relationships between different living things, different ideas and ways of thinking, and different cultures. We will walk a modified Sacred Circle through intellectual, experiential, spiritual, and mythic ways of knowing about the prairie, and then integrate them, in order to learn about, and begin to form a meaningful relationship with, the grasslands of Turtle Island/North America. This process can help you begin to understand and form a more meaningful relationship with the Land itself, and it will introduce you to the power of Indigenous Knowledge.
Introduction from Karen Inwood, Plantlife's International Strategy Lead.
Founder and Co-President of the Tapestry Institute, Dawn is an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation and also Chickasaw by blood. She's worked for more than 30 years to advance Indigenous Knowledge through education and research, in collaboration with Indigenous colleagues worldwide. She holds advanced degrees in ecology and evolutionary biology, and was a university professor and research scientist before founding Tapestry.
Jerome LewisCo-founder of Flourishing Diversity. Jerome is an associate professor UCL. His fieldwork with hunter-gatherers of Central Africa began in 1993 studying the radically egalitarian politics and economics of these societies, focusing on their conceptualizations of the forest and how they manage its abundance through taboo, myth, ritual, music and dance.
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