Rematriation: Re-storying the Land and Centering Indigenous Relationships and Leadership

IAS Collaborative
Friday, April 22, 2022 | 11:00 am - 12:30 pm CDT
An Online Event
Free and Open to the Public (Registration Requested)

Featuring Rowen White
Mohawk Nation Seedkeeper

 
Join Rowen White for storytelling, inquiry, and invitation in the movement of Land and Seed Rematriation and Relational, Kin-Centric Foodways. She will share the collective vision of intercultural healing that emerges when we center Indigenous leadership, ecological knowledge, cultural memory, and sovereignty of living in relationship with the cultural inheritance of land, seeds, and other non-human kin. She will share stories, past, present, and evolving of the pathways in the Rematriation movement towards cultural sanity in these times of great transformation.  
 

 

 
Rowen White is a Seed Keeper/farmer from the Mohawk community of Akwesasne and a passionate activist for indigenous seed and food sovereignty. She is the Educational Director and lead mentor of Sierra Seeds, an innovative organic seed stewardship organization focusing on local seed and education, based in Nevada City CA. Rowen is the Founder of the Indigenous Seed Keeper Network, which is an initiative of the Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance, a non-profit organization aimed at leveraging resources to support tribal food sovereignty projects. She facilitates creative hands-on workshops and facilitates strategic conversations and community organizing around seed/food security around the country within tribal and small farming communities. Rowen has a deep commitment to approaching food systems revitalization with a cultural context. 
 
 
Talk funded by the Institute for Advanced Study.

Event co-sponsored by:
UMC Office of Sustainability
UMD Department of American Indian Studies
UMD Department of Biology
UMD Department of Studies in Justice, Culture, and Social Change
Integrated Biosciences Graduate Program
 

This is the final Spring 2022 semester talk organized by the faculty collaborative, 
“Transdisciplinary Engagements with Contemporary Indigenous Thinkers.”
We will return next academic year with more events.

 

 

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