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TOPICSModule 10: Restoration and Remediation

We do not have thousands upon thousands of dollars. We do not have great mansions of

beauty. We do not have priceless objects of art. We do not lead a life of ease, nor do we live i

luxury. We do not own the land upon which we live. We do not have the basic things of life

which we are told are necessary to better ourselves.But I want to tell you now that that we

not need these things. What we need, however, is what we already have. What we need has

been provided to us by the Great Spirit.We need to realize who we are and what we stand

for.We are the keepers of that which the Great Spirit has given to us, that is our language, o

culture, our drum societies, our religion, and most of all our traditional way of life....We need

be Anishinaabeg again (126)1

-George Aubid Sr. East Lake Minnesota

Restoring Anishinaabeg Agriculture and Permaculture Practices

It is unclear how successful indigenous ontologies may be in penetrating the institutional frameworks of thedominant science-based management paradigm based as they are on the divide between culture and nature

-Andrew Martin Miller, Ian Davidson Hunt in Human Ecology

Interesting concept in the broad sense. We have the opportunity, however, in our communities and territori

to restore the most sustainable economic and food system in history. We should take it.

Case studies and Practices:

1LaDuke, Winona.All Our Relations. Cambridge: South End Press, 1999.

2Andrew Martin Miller, Ian Davidson Hunt. Human Ecology: April 2010, 38: 401-414.

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Figure 1 White Earth Midewin.

A part of who we are as Anishinaabeg today is in the restoration of our knowledge systems and the adaptatio

of this knowledge and lifeway to the food systems and farming of this millennium. Our ecosystems and

traditional land management practices hold great wisdom, which, when adapted and merged with organic

agricultural strategies, we find that we are able to produce more good food with a strong cultural

understanding. In recent discussions, we have found that Anishinaabeg people are interested in our agricultu

our plants, and restoring our relationship. Discussing Anishinaabe architecture with communities in the regio

there was a great resonance, and interest. Red Cliffs gardening project, adapted the wigwam and lodge to

greenhouse system can be seen below.

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Figure 2 Chicago Indian Center Restoring our Traditional Medicines.

The Chicago Indian Center has been an essential part of the urban community for many generations. Tribal

members of many Anishinaabe reservation have come to live there, and in the past decade, the community w

able to purchase a former Masonic Temple to serve the community. The most amazing medicines will grow

from a former concrete parking lot, if you care for them. That is what I learned on travel there: the tribal

community has restored foods, but, also a wetland, and medicinal plants -- all through careful work with soil

careful intercropping of plants, Indigenous knowledge systems and prayer.

Video:A Peculiar Wilderness -- The American Indian Centers Native Medicine Garden, by Lisa Matuska.

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From the text:

Hassel, Craig. Good Nutrition at Harvest Time. St. Paul, MN: Dr

of Wild Health Newsletter. Vol. 3., 2003.

Hudson, Matt. Mercury and Composting Fish Waste A PilotProject. Great lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commision: Odana

WI: 2008.

LaDuke Winona. Keepers of the Seeds: How Native farmers and

gardeners are working to preserve their agricultural heritage. Y

Magazine, May 12, 2011.

LaDuke, Winona. All Our Relations. Cambridge: South End Pres

1999. (Pages 191-212).

Micales, Jessie (Dr.), Thomas Richard, John Dean. Wood N FishComposting: Small Industry Waster management in Alaska.

Workshop pamphlet, April 11, 2001.

Wilson, Ken.Heres a Better Way to Feed the World. ProvidenceRI: The providence Journal, 2012.

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Bibliography

Andrew Martin Miller, Ian Davidson Hunt. Human Ecology: April 2010, 38: 401-414.

LaDuke, Winona.All Our Relations. Cambridge: South End Press, 1999