In August, the Center celebrated the 11th anniversary of Native Earth, our flagship environmental summer program for Indigenous high school students. This year, 14 young people, 7 chaperones and family members, and Center staff gathered at the SUNY Newcomb Campus in the Adirondacks for a week of hands-on learning, community building, leadership development, and traditional... Continue Reading →

Figure 1. Courtesy of Abraham Francis. On February 22, staff from the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment co-hosted the second Haudenosaunee Forest Forum, this time on Akwesasne Mohawk Territory. There were 16 attendees present in person and 5 attendees who joined via Zoom. Participants came from across the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, including Ontario, Canada... Continue Reading →

RSVP form: https://linktr.ee/cnpe The Center for Native Peoples and the Environment and ESF Earth Week invite you to: Join Tom Porter, Mohawk spiritual leader, teacher and author, and Robin Wall Kimmerer, Potawatomi writer and scientist, for a presentation on traditional Indigenous knowledge on relations with our more-than-human relatives as a source of wisdom in the... Continue Reading →

In honor of Indigenous Peoples Month, the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment hosted 'Feast and Film' - a screening of the film Inhabitants and a panel featuring Sloan Scholars discussing their reflections on the film. Despite the tremendous storm outside, nearly 30 people gathered to watch the film, eat traditional Haudenosaunee food prepared... Continue Reading →

On a wintry weekend in mid-November, Sloan students and CNPE faculty and staff gathered at the SUNY-Newcomb campus for a fall retreat. The group drafted 'Professional Mission Statements' and reflected on the mentors and teachers who inspire their path forward as Indigenous Environmental Scientists. In addition to this important work of reflection and visioning, the... Continue Reading →

On a rainy morning in late November, students in the Sloan Indigenous Graduate Partnership gathered with staff from the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment and staff from the SUNY ESF - Lafayette Experimental Station and the American Chestnut Research and Restoration Project to ceremonially inaugurate the newly created Healing Circle and Fire pit.... Continue Reading →

https://www.esf.edu/calendar/event.asp?EventId=14284 Sloan Scholar Bean Minerd introducing 2021's Native American and Indigenous Heritage Month Keynote Speakers at ESF: Tadodaho Sidney Hill of the Onondaga Nation & Kasike Roberto Múkaro Borrero of the United Confederacy of Taíno People, who both spoke about Indigenous Rights & Climate Work with the United Nations. The event was hosted by the... Continue Reading →

"As a forestry student, It’s always a privilege to have the opportunity to learn about the forest from indigenous knowledge holders. Personally as a Tuscarora, it was a special honor to hear voices from across the Haudenosaunee confederacy and to be hosted graciously by the Onondaga Nation and Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force. Aside from the... Continue Reading →