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DESCRIPTION:Join Cornell Botanic Gardens and OJI:SDA' for a live webinar fe
 aturing Angela Ferguson (Onondaga) and Táhila Moss (Yoeme\, Jewish) as they
  discuss seed saving and the role that plants play as traditional healers. 
 Offering guidance on how to cultivate good ways of living\, being in balanc
 e\, positive mental health\, and relationship with ancestors\, plants help 
 bring forth this knowledge in reciprocal ways. Indigenous culture and the p
 otency of plant tending for holistic nutritional benefits will be shared an
 d celebrated. \n\nAngela Ferguson is a member of the Eel Clan from Onondaga
  Nation\, one of the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. She is s
 upervisor of the Onondaga Nation Farm on the Onondaga Nation Territory. She
  is a leading knowledge-holder of the Indigenous Food Sovereignty movement.
  At the farm\, Angela provides food to help the entire Onondaga community. 
 In this role\, she also oversees a collection of over a thousand varieties 
 of seeds\, some thousands of years old. Angela is also a member of Braiding
  the Sacred\, a grassroots network of Indigenous corn growers.\n\nTáhila Mo
 ss is a Photographer\, Medicine Carrier\, and Founder / Executive Director 
 of OJI:SDA’ Sustainable Indigenous Futures. She works across multiple platf
 orms and organizations as an ancestral scribe and storyteller to amplify th
 e voices of Indigenous people and the natural world. Táhila is a National G
 eographic Explorer and Magnum Foundation Fellow and has worked throughout t
 he Americas\, Eastern Europe\, Central Asia\, Africa\, and the Middle East.
  With ceremony\, healing and land relationships as her foundation\, Táhila’
 s work focuses on ancestral matriarchies and gender equilibrium\, contempor
 ary Indigenous issues\, community cultivation\, and recuperating knowledge 
 that has been unraveled by colonialism. She is also a Water Protector and a
  Land Guardian.\n\nPre-registration is required. You can register to view t
 he live webinar in person in the Nevin Welcome Center\, or via Zoom.  For t
 hose attending in person\, tea will be served following the one-hour virtua
 l conversation. \n\nThere are three flexible payment options\, for both in-
 person and Zoom participants: $5\, $10\, or $15.\n\nClick here to register 
 to view this webinar at Ccornell Botanic Gardens Nevin Welcome Center.\n\nC
 lick here to register to view this webinar via Zoom.\n\nThis program is co-
 sponsored by:\n\nOJI:SDA' is a local\, non-profit organization working to e
 xpand Indigenous visibility\, land literacy and good health by using innova
 tive ways of sharing ancestral knowledge. OJI:SDA' has been facilitating an
 d sponsoring events in Tompkins County to support land-based education oppo
 rtunities and community-care work. Through education\, media-arts\, and cur
 riculum\, OJI:SDA' focuses on environmental protection\, sustainability\, c
 ommunity wellbeing\, and cultural vibrancy. \n\nCornell Botanic Gardens: Ou
 r mission is to inspire people—through cultivation\, conservation\, and edu
 cation—to understand\, appreciate\, and nurture plants and the cultures the
 y sustain. Advancing this mission helps us realize our vision: a world in w
 hich the interdependence of biological and cultural diversity is respected\
 , sustained\, and celebrated.
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SUMMARY:Knowledge Carriers in Conversation: Angela Ferguson with Táhila Mos
 s 
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