Mariah Gladstone (MPS, 2021) joined the Sloan seminar on November 7 following her Indigenous cooking demonstration at Syracuse University. We honored her graduation with a blanket ceremony. 

In mid-October, the Sloan Indigenous Graduate Partnership cohort and Center staff shared a beautiful day on retreat at Sodus Point, right next to the sand and waters of Lake Ontario. We spent many hours walking and sitting on the beach, eating, talking, admiring the peak fall foliage, hiking on the spectacular bluffs at Chimney Bluffs... Continue Reading →

Written by SUNY ESF Communications staff: The SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF), the most distinguished institution in the nation that focuses on the study of the environment, is proud to announce that Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer has been named a 2022 MacArthur Fellow. Kimmerer is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental... Continue Reading →

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 →