Robin Kimmerer ’75 at the pond on her property. Originally published by ESF Magazine: https://magazine.esf.edu/braiding-sweetgrass/ In a pandemic where people are distancing, a book that speaks of connectivity with nature is resonating with people seven years after it was originally published. Dr. Robin Kimmerer’s ’75 “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of... Continue Reading →

Mariah Gladstone is a Sloan Fellow at ESF and a 2020 MIT Solve Indigenous Communities Fellow Originally published by ESF Communications and Marketing: https://www.esf.edu/communications/view2.asp?newsID=8803 Mariah Gladstone, a Sloan Fellow at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF), has been named one of eight 2020 MIT Solve Indigenous Communities Fellows. Gladstone owns and operates... Continue Reading →

From left; Mariah Gladstone ’21, Dineh Judd ’21, Susannah Howard ’21, Dr. Robin Kimmerer, professor and director of the ESF Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, and Biidaaban Reinhardt ’20 Originally published at ESF Magazine: https://magazine.esf.edu/esf-pilots-sloan-foundation-program/ Mariah Gladstone grew up near Glacier National Park in Montana’s Rocky Mountains. After earning a bachelor’s degree in... Continue Reading →

Youth and elder members of the Haudenosaunee delegation pose in front of the United Nations.  In September 2019, staff from the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment joined participants and chaperones from the August 2019 Native Earth summer program and other Haudenosaunee community members in New York City to participate in the Climate Action... Continue Reading →

All of the participants and chaperones posed after a full day of canoeing, swimming, and learning about archaeological sites on Tupper Lake.  In August, the Center celebrated the 10th anniversary of Native Earth, our flagship environmental summer program for native high school students. This year, 19 young people, 10 chaperones and family members, and Center... Continue Reading →

By Jess Cherofsky On March 27, Dr. Curt Meine of the Center for Humans and Nature and the University of Wisconsin gave a lecture at ESF entitled, “Land Ethics: Aldo Leopold and Indigenous Perspectives.” ESF’s Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer, a friend of Meine’s and his former teaching assistant at the University of Wisconsin, introduced him... Continue Reading →

By Jess Cherofsky and Sarah Howard On March 22, in honor of World Water Day, the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment hosted a screening of the short documentary “Water Warriors.” The 2017 film, by Andrew Stern and Michael Premo, tells the story of a group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous community members in rural... Continue Reading →

For more information and to sign the statement, please visit: https://www.esf.edu/indigenous-science-letter/ As indigenous scientists and allies, we endorse the March for Science and recognize that while Western Science is a powerful approach, it is not the only one. We need to engage the power of both Western and Indigenous Science on behalf of the living... Continue Reading →