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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
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