Event Title
Here Live the Stories: Seeds for Indigenous Research
Location
Burnell 109
Start Time
10-5-2012 10:15 AM
End Time
10-5-2012 11:00 AM
Description
In The Common Pot, Lisa Brooks centers her work around the Abenaki concept of awikhigan, tools we use in “transmitting an image or idea from one mind to another” that “operate within particular, tangible spaces.” My teaching and scholarship honor this concept by incorporating multiple ways of “transmitting” local Native knowledge to students and colleagues at BSU. During summer 2011, my Indigenous sisters and I tended a three-sisters garden at Bridgewater State University and incorporated it into my Native Women Writers class. Sponsored by a small CART grant, the Here Live the Stories project was started at the Bridgewater Community Growing Spaces. This presentation will discuss working with local Native communities in teaching and scholarship.
Here Live the Stories: Seeds for Indigenous Research
Burnell 109
In The Common Pot, Lisa Brooks centers her work around the Abenaki concept of awikhigan, tools we use in “transmitting an image or idea from one mind to another” that “operate within particular, tangible spaces.” My teaching and scholarship honor this concept by incorporating multiple ways of “transmitting” local Native knowledge to students and colleagues at BSU. During summer 2011, my Indigenous sisters and I tended a three-sisters garden at Bridgewater State University and incorporated it into my Native Women Writers class. Sponsored by a small CART grant, the Here Live the Stories project was started at the Bridgewater Community Growing Spaces. This presentation will discuss working with local Native communities in teaching and scholarship.
Comments
Moderator: Pamela Russell