"It’s so helpful to have a taproot. The work of the time is to remember that we all descend from people who have rich, storied cosmologies and narratives. The invitation is to rehydrate that understanding, we all have to find the pathway back in, so that we can reweave ourselves back into the tapestry together. What is that pathway home for you in your circle of relatives so that we can all move forward on that Green Path?"
In this video clip -- part of a longer series of conversations we hosted in the fall of 2021 -- Mohawk Seedkeeper Rowen White talks about finding the "taproots" to our own cosmologies, connect us to a more regenerative future.
Indigenous Writers Address the Seventh Fire
Co-presented by the New School at Commonweal and the Center for Humans and Nature-in celebration of the book What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be? and the 10th anniversary of the Center’s Questions for a Resilient Future Series
Join us for a series of two conversations with indigenous leaders about the Seventh Fire-an Anishinaabe prophecy that points to our current time, with opportunities for healing, solidarity, and Indigenous cultural recovery and revitalization. In this conversation, Host Melissa K. Nelson (Anishinaabe/Metis) speaks with Rowen White (Mohawk) and Rachel Wolfgramm, PhD (Whakatōhea, Ngāi Takoto, Te Aupouri, Tonga).
Rowen White (Mohawk)
Rowen is a seed keeper and farmer from the Mohawk community of Akwesasne and a passionate activist for Indigenous seed sovereignty. She weaves stories of seeds, food, culture, and sacred Earth stewardship on her blog, Seed Songs, and cultivates a legacy of seeds and cultural memory with the Indigenous Seedkeepers Network. She is the director and founder of Sierra Seeds, an organic seed cooperative focusing on local seed production and education, based in Nevada City, California. She teaches creative seed training immersions around the country within tribal and small farming communities.
Watch the entire conversation here: • Rowen White, Rachel Wo...
Music: Devi Daly singing, music composed by Coco Love Alcorn.
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