[HubbardBrook] Braiding Sweetgrass discussion Oct 28 3pm -- You don't need to read the whole book!

[Denise Burchsted]

PS. A critical detail! The book is Braiding Sweetgrass<https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17465709-braiding-sweetgrass>, by Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer. I recommend the audio version for those who commute.

On 10/12/2021 12:02 AM, Denise Burchsted wrote:
Hi all –

I am writing to announce the upcoming “Hubbard Brook Reads” book discussion, which will be held Thursday, October 28 from 3:00 to 4:30pm on zoom: https://keene.zoom.us/j/83516498674<https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fkeene.zoom.us%2Fj%2F83516498674&data=04%7C01%7Cdburchsted%40keene.edu%7Ce55537bcb6ef4142fd3308d98d35188e%7Cd6241893512d46dc8d2bbe47e25f5666%7C0%7C0%7C637696081439789578%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=vdZA0fdIS141LeKORTnghNXUVotNSYHF3rP5xNU0hrU%3D&reserved=0>.

The price of admission is low! You do *not* need to read the whole book. If you are pressed for time, please consider choosing from the chapters suggested below, which we selected to support our two discussion themes.

On behalf of the Indigenous Knowledge & Networking committee - we are looking forward to talking about these ideas and hope that you will join us

  - denise

Theme #1: Principles of Indigenous ecological thinking: gift economies, reciprocity, gratitude, relationship, animacy.

Possible chapters to focus on that emphasize this theme:

  *   Learning the Grammar of Animacy
  *   Skywoman Falling
  *   The Gift of Strawberries

Potential discussion questions: What do these principles mean for our own understanding of the ecosystems we study, manage, teach about, and live within? What would be different if, for example, departments of “natural resources” were renamed as departments of “earthly gifts,” as Dr. Kimmerer has suggested in other teachings?

Theme #2: Weaving Indigenous ecological principles in with concepts of ecosystem science and land management, using “two-eyed” seeing.

Possible chapters to focus on that emphasize this theme:

  *   Asters and Goldenrod
  *   Mishkos Kenomagwen: The Teachings of Grass
  *   In the Footsteps of Nanabozho: Becoming Indigenous to Place

Potential discussion questions: How might our research and education change, if we adopted a two-eyed seeing model of thinking about ecosystems and the land?

Other suggestions

  *   Forestry and people: Wisgaak Gokpenagen: A Black Ash Basket
  *   Some hydrology, a dash of stream ecology: Witness to the Rain
  *   Relationships among peoples (human and others), vs. land management: Burning cascade head
  *   ... and of course the whole rest of the book, too : )

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denise burchsted (she, her<https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.diversitycenterneo.org%2Fabout-us%2Fpronouns%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cdburchsted%40keene.edu%7Ce55537bcb6ef4142fd3308d98d35188e%7Cd6241893512d46dc8d2bbe47e25f5666%7C0%7C0%7C637696081439789578%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=fOhG%2BOk2vCDw4LENipJy5cl%2BFG5znCefc3LBTlI4npM%3D&reserved=0>), Associate Professor of Environmental Studies
Chair, Department of Environmental Studies & Sustainability
Chair, Society for Ecological Restoration--Northeast Chapter
Book a meeting with me: https://bit.ly/profburchsted<https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fprofburchsted&data=04%7C01%7Cdburchsted%40keene.edu%7Ce55537bcb6ef4142fd3308d98d35188e%7Cd6241893512d46dc8d2bbe47e25f5666%7C0%7C0%7C637696081439799515%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=gwmhvNoI8XTK%2FX0%2FPoeTiwEJD2hFAHTe3Qe0dz2pw8M%3D&reserved=0>

I live and work in the unceded land of Ashuelot, within territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook people and the Wabanaki (Dawnland) confederacy, their allies, and their ancestors of over 12,000 years. I acknowledge their stewardship, in relationship with this Land, for millennia.

My writing follows the same rules for both of us, as equals: you and i.

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