SYMP 25 - The Heartwork by Indigenous People with Native Seeds and Indigenous Plants (original) (raw)

Thursday, August 14 8:00 AM –9:30 AM EDT

Hilton Key 5

Indigenous peoples have deeply rooted relationships with plants who are important contributors to tribal food systems, material culture, and spiritual wellbeing. This relationship requires respect and places responsibility on tribal people to continue to transmit and practice the Traditional Ecological Knowledge tied to this relationship. Tribal people continue to forage and cultivate specific plant relatives who their ancestors stewarded for generations before them. Their knowledge systems hold the practices and protocols for the songs, ceremonies, preservation, and preparation of the plant foods and medicines. Some of these relationships have been stymied by laws, lack of access, and diminished populations. This symposium will share the work of current work of Indigenous people engaged in the heartwork of maintaining, protecting, and perpetuating our relationships with our plant relatives.

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