Indigenous Creationism and Forestry: Our Red-tail Hawks and Red Cedar Trees seminar

Red tail hawks and eastern red cedar trees are significant for spirituality, and place-based knowledge systems across Turtle Island.

Harvard Forest will hold an Indigenous Creationism and Forestry: Our Red-tail Hawks and Red Cedar Trees online & in person seminar on February 21^st from 11 am to noon.

In this seminar Keshia DeFreece Lawrence, Ramapough Lenape Munsee environmental scientist, will share critical aspects of Eastern Woodlands Indigenous Creationism and diverse epistemological backgrounds, transcending the ecological and human relations.

In particular this talk will focus on Indigenous pedagogy for more than human kin monitoring or caretaking; preservation and restoration initiatives. Using Red Tail Hawks and Eastern Red Cedar Trees as a case-study of concern for Eastern Indigenous peoples, this seminar will exemplify Indigenous forms of data collection, community spirituality and lightly combining settler colonial methodologies.

As emerging climate and industry related concerns arise, Indigenous knowledge bearers and others are documenting the rapid decline of both. This seminar will outline the culturally appropriate, and reconciliatory approaches needed for potentially establishing an intertribal Indigenous-led hawk enrichment, monitoring, and care taking project, as a case-study for Spirit-Based Field Ecology and Environmental Science research.

This seminar will be in person in the Seminar Room as well as streamed live via Zoom at  https://harvard.zoom.us/j/93793764717 , password = seminar