Indigenous Root of Wellness: Restoring the Traditional Land-Human Relationship through Community Gardening
In this talk, Dr. Angela McGinnis will cover land-based education with Indigenous youth. Indigenous ways of knowing and being contain an intrinsic connectedness to nature and the land. Traditionally, Indigenous peoples regarded plants and animals as our more-than-human relatives, situating them as key players in a complex, interconnected life-web that is essential for holistic wellness. While the main pillars of “new age” horticultural practices stem from pre-contact Indigenous agricultural principles, they often fail to integrate the deep cultural and relational worldviews of Indigenous peoples. Using Indigenous community-based approaches, innovative and ethical blends of evidence-based (i.e., scientific) regenerative horticultural practices and traditional (i.e., Indigenous) nature-based healing methods can restore the sacred land-human relationship for Indigenous youth, families, and communities.
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