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DESCRIPTION:Robin Wall Kimmerer\, Distinguished Speaker in Global Developme
 nt and American Indian & Indigenous Studies Program Seminar Speaker\n\nPart
 ners across Cornell University are thrilled to welcome Robin Wall Kimmerer 
 to campus on November 1. Robin is a mother\, scientist\, decorated professo
 r\, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is also the a
 uthor of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom\, Scientific Knowledge and 
 the Teachings of Plants\, which has earned Kimmerer wide acclaim.\n\nSemina
 r abstract\n\nWhat might Land Justice look like? Dr. Kimmerer will explore 
 Indigenous perspectives on land conservation\, from biocultural restoration
  to Land Back.  This discussion invites listeners to consider how engaging 
 Traditional Ecological Knowledge contributes to justice for land and people
 .\n\nAbout the speaker \n\nRobin Wall Kimmerer is a mother\, scientist\, de
 corated professor\, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. S
 he is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom\, Scientific Kno
 wledge and the Teachings of Plants\, which has earned Kimmerer wide acclaim
 . Her first book\, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
 \, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing\, an
 d her other work has appeared in Orion\, Whole Terrain\, and numerous scien
 tific journals. In 2022\, Braiding Sweetgrass was adapted for young adults 
 by Monique Gray Smith. This new edition reinforces how wider ecological und
 erstanding stems from listening to the earth’s oldest teachers: the plants 
 around us.\n\nRobin tours widely and has been featured on NPR’s On Being wi
 th Krista Tippett and in 2015 addressed the general assembly of the United 
 Nations on the topic of “Healing Our Relationship with Nature.” Kimmerer is
  a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology\, and the
  founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment\
 , whose mission is to create programs which draw on the wisdom of both indi
 genous and scientific knowledge for our shared goals of sustainability. In 
 2022 she was named a MacArthur Fellow.\n\nAs a writer and a scientist\, her
  interests in restoration include not only restoration of ecological commun
 ities\, but restoration of our relationships to land. She holds a BS in Bot
 any from SUNY ESF\, an MS and PhD in Botany from the University of Wisconsi
 n and is the author of numerous scientific papers on plant ecology\, bryoph
 yte ecology\, traditional knowledge and restoration ecology. She lives on a
 n old farm in upstate New York\, tending gardens both cultivated and wild. 
 \n\nCo-sponsors: \n\nCampus Sustainability OfficeDepartment of Global Devel
 opmentAmerican Indian & Indigenous Studies ProgramCornell Botanic GardensEi
 nhorn Center for Community EngagementNative American Indigenous Students at
  CornellAtkinson Center for SustainabilityLand Grant AffairsDepartment of A
 nthropologyNorth Campus Facility ProgramsMasters of Public Health ProgramEC
 O Environmental Collaborative West Campus HousesDepartment of Natural Resou
 rcesStay tuned for a full line-up of events on November 1.
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LOCATION:Warren Hall\, 401
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SUMMARY:Land Justice: Engaging Indigenous Knowledge For Land Care
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URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/land_justice_engaging_indigenous_knowl
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